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The Transformer has emerged as a versatile and effective architecture with broad applications. However, it still remains an open problem how to efficiently train a Transformer model of high utility with differential privacy guarantees. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Youlong Ding , Xueyang Wu , Hao Wang , Weike Pan

Transformer models have revolutionized AI tasks, but their large size hinders real-world deployment on resource-constrained and latency-critical edge devices. While binarized Transformers offer a promising solution by significantly reducing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Yuhao Ji , Chao Fang , Shaobo Ma , Haikuo Shao , Zhongfeng Wang

Transformer-based video diffusion models (VDMs) deliver state-of-the-art video generation quality but are constrained by the quadratic cost of self-attention, making long sequences and high resolutions computationally expensive. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Mohsen Ghafoorian , Denis Korzhenkov , Amirhossein Habibian

Symbolic music generation aims to generate music scores automatically. A recent trend is to use Transformer or its variants in music generation, which is, however, suboptimal, because the full attention cannot efficiently model the…

Sound · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Botao Yu , Peiling Lu , Rui Wang , Wei Hu , Xu Tan , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Predictive process monitoring aims to support the execution of a process during runtime with various predictions about the further evolution of a process instance. In the last years a plethora of deep learning architectures have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Martin Käppel , Lars Ackermann , Stefan Jablonski , Simon Härtl

Transformers provide a class of expressive architectures that are extremely effective for sequence modeling. However, the key limitation of transformers is their quadratic memory and time complexity $\mathcal{O}(L^2)$ with respect to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Hongyu Ren , Hanjun Dai , Zihang Dai , Mengjiao Yang , Jure Leskovec , Dale Schuurmans , Bo Dai

Built on top of self-attention mechanisms, vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance on a variety of vision tasks recently. While achieving excellent performance, they still require relatively intensive computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Lingchen Meng , Hengduo Li , Bor-Chun Chen , Shiyi Lan , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Ser-Nam Lim

Transformers have emerged as the cornerstone of state-of-the-art natural language processing models, showcasing exceptional performance across a wide range of AI applications. However, the memory demands posed by the self-attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Hao Liu , Pieter Abbeel

In deep learning theory, the covariance matrix of the representations serves as a proxy to examine the network's trainability. Motivated by the success of Transformers, we study the covariance matrix of a modified Softmax-based attention…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2023-12-12 Lorenzo Noci , Chuning Li , Mufan Bill Li , Bobby He , Thomas Hofmann , Chris Maddison , Daniel M. Roy

Designing a single neural network architecture that performs competitively across a range of molecule property prediction tasks remains largely an open challenge, and its solution may unlock a widespread use of deep learning in the drug…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-10 Łukasz Maziarka , Tomasz Danel , Sławomir Mucha , Krzysztof Rataj , Jacek Tabor , Stanisław Jastrzębski

With the attention mechanism, transformers achieve significant empirical successes. Despite the intuitive understanding that transformers perform relational inference over long sequences to produce desirable representations, we lack a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Yufeng Zhang , Boyi Liu , Qi Cai , Lingxiao Wang , Zhaoran Wang

Despite several successes in document understanding, the practical task for long document understanding is largely under-explored due to several challenges in computation and how to efficiently absorb long multimodal input. Most current…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Hai Pham , Guoxin Wang , Yijuan Lu , Dinei Florencio , Cha Zhang

The attention mechanism is a pivotal element within the transformer architecture, making a substantial contribution to its exceptional performance. Within this attention mechanism, Softmax is an imperative component that enables the model…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Tianhua Xia , Sai Qian Zhang

Generating robust and reliable correspondences across images is a fundamental task for a diversity of applications. To capture context at both global and local granularity, we propose ASpanFormer, a Transformer-based detector-free matcher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-31 Hongkai Chen , Zixin Luo , Lei Zhou , Yurun Tian , Mingmin Zhen , Tian Fang , David Mckinnon , Yanghai Tsin , Long Quan

The attention mechanism is the primary component of the transformer architecture; it has led to significant advancements in deep learning spanning many domains and covering multiple tasks. In computer vision, the attention mechanism was…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Abdullah Nazhat Abdullah , Tarkan Aydin

Transformers have been successfully used in various fields and are becoming the standard tools in computer vision. However, self-attention, a core component of transformers, has a quadratic complexity problem, which limits the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Jiuk Hong , Chaehyeon Lee , Soyoun Bang , Heechul Jung

Transformers, renowned for their powerful feature extraction capabilities, have played an increasingly prominent role in various vision tasks. Especially, recent advancements present transformer with hierarchical structures such as Dilated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-21 Jinghuai Jie , Yan Guo , Guixing Wu , Junmin Wu , Baojian Hua

Generative transformer models have become increasingly complex, with large numbers of parameters and the ability to process multiple input modalities. Current methods for explaining their predictions are resource-intensive. Most crucially,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Björn Deiseroth , Mayukh Deb , Samuel Weinbach , Manuel Brack , Patrick Schramowski , Kristian Kersting

Despite their widespread success in various domains, Transformer networks have yet to perform well across datasets in the domain of 3D atomistic graphs such as molecules even when 3D-related inductive biases like translational invariance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yi-Lun Liao , Tess Smidt

Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in low-level vision tasks, such as image super-resolution. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through attribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Xiangyu Chen , Xintao Wang , Jiantao Zhou , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong