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The Transformer architecture has become increasingly popular over the past two years, owing to its impressive performance on a number of natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, all Transformer computations occur at the level of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-05 David Donahue , Vladislav Lialin , Anna Rumshisky

The Transformer architecture has gained growing attention in graph representation learning recently, as it naturally overcomes several limitations of graph neural networks (GNNs) by avoiding their strict structural inductive biases and…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2022-06-14 Dexiong Chen , Leslie O'Bray , Karsten Borgwardt

Transformers have achieved significant success across various domains, relying on self-attention to capture dependencies. However, the standard first-order attention mechanism is often limited by a low-rank bottleneck, struggling to capture…

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Recommendation is a prevalent application of machine learning that affects many users; therefore, it is important for recommender models to be accurate and interpretable. In this work, we propose a method to both interpret and augment the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2020-06-22 Michael Tsang , Dehua Cheng , Hanpeng Liu , Xue Feng , Eric Zhou , Yan Liu

As industrial recommender systems enter a scaling-driven regime, Transformer architectures have become increasingly attractive for scaling models towards larger capacity and longer sequence. However, existing Transformer-based…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Xu Huang , Hao Zhang , Zhifang Fan , Yunwen Huang , Zhuoxing Wei , Zheng Chai , Jinan Ni , Yuchao Zheng , Qiwei Chen

Transformer-based models are unable to process long sequences due to their self-attention operation, which scales quadratically with the sequence length. To address this limitation, we introduce the Longformer with an attention mechanism…

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The point cloud learning community witnesses a modeling shift from CNNs to Transformers, where pure Transformer architectures have achieved top accuracy on the major learning benchmarks. However, existing point Transformers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Zhang Cheng , Haocheng Wan , Xinyi Shen , Zizhao Wu

It has been challenging to model the complex temporal-spatial dependencies between agents for trajectory prediction. As each state of an agent is closely related to the states of adjacent time steps, capturing the local temporal dependency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Yixin Yan , Yang Li , Yuanfan Wang , Xiaozhou Zhou , Beihao Xia , Manjiang Hu , Hongmao Qin

While Transformers have revolutionized deep learning, their quadratic attention complexity hinders their ability to process infinitely long inputs. We propose Feedback Attention Memory (FAM), a novel Transformer architecture that leverages…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Dongseong Hwang , Weiran Wang , Zhuoyuan Huo , Khe Chai Sim , Pedro Moreno Mengibar

Transformer models have shown great success handling long-range interactions, making them a promising tool for modeling video. However, they lack inductive biases and scale quadratically with input length. These limitations are further…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Javier Selva , Anders S. Johansen , Sergio Escalera , Kamal Nasrollahi , Thomas B. Moeslund , Albert Clapés

Feature learning for 3D object detection from point clouds is very challenging due to the irregularity of 3D point cloud data. In this paper, we propose Pointformer, a Transformer backbone designed for 3D point clouds to learn features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-23 Xuran Pan , Zhuofan Xia , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang

With sequentially stacked self-attention, (optional) encoder-decoder attention, and feed-forward layers, Transformer achieves big success in natural language processing (NLP), and many variants have been proposed. Currently, almost all…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Jinhua Zhu , Lijun Wu , Yingce Xia , Shufang Xie , Tao Qin , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Tie-Yan Liu

Vision Transformer and its variants have demonstrated great potential in various computer vision tasks. But conventional vision transformers often focus on global dependency at a coarse level, which suffer from a learning challenge on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-07 Yunhao Wang , Huixin Sun , Xiaodi Wang , Bin Zhang , Chao Li , Ying Xin , Baochang Zhang , Errui Ding , Shumin Han

Personality computing has become an emerging topic in computer vision, due to the wide range of applications it can be used for. However, most works on the topic have focused on analyzing the individual, even when applied to interaction…

Transformer, an attention-based encoder-decoder model, has already revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by such significant achievements, some pioneering works have recently been done on employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yang Liu , Yao Zhang , Yixin Wang , Feng Hou , Jin Yuan , Jiang Tian , Yang Zhang , Zhongchao Shi , Jianping Fan , Zhiqiang He

Attention layers -- which map a sequence of inputs to a sequence of outputs -- are core building blocks of the Transformer architecture which has achieved significant breakthroughs in modern artificial intelligence. This paper presents a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-24 Hengyu Fu , Tianyu Guo , Yu Bai , Song Mei

Click-through rate (CTR) prediction, which predicts the probability of a user clicking an ad, is a fundamental task in recommender systems. The emergence of heterogeneous information, such as user profile and behavior sequences, depicts…

Most existing learning-based point cloud descriptors for point cloud registration focus on perceiving local information of point clouds to generate distinctive features. However, a reasonable and broader receptive field is essential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Wentao Qu , Xiaoshui Huang , Liang Xiao

This paper studies a text classification algorithm based on an improved Transformer to improve the performance and efficiency of the model in text classification tasks. Aiming at the shortcomings of the traditional Transformer model in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Jia Gao , Guiran Liu , Binrong Zhu , Shicheng Zhou , Hongye Zheng , Xiaoxuan Liao

Currently, this paper is under review in IEEE. Transformers have intrigued the vision research community with their state-of-the-art performance in natural language processing. With their superior performance, transformers have found their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-05 Preetam Ghosh , Swalpa Kumar Roy , Bikram Koirala , Behnood Rasti , Paul Scheunders