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Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) excel in modeling complex language patterns but face significant computational costs during inference, especially with long inputs due to the attention mechanism's memory overhead. We observe…

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Transformer models are computationally costly on long sequences since regular attention has quadratic $O(n^2)$ time complexity. We introduce Wavelet-Enhanced Random Spectral Attention (WERSA), a novel mechanism of linear $O(n)$ time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Vincenzo Dentamaro

Driven by the wide adoption of deep neural networks (DNNs) across different application domains, multi-tenancy execution, where multiple DNNs are deployed simultaneously on the same hardware, has been proposed to satisfy the latency…

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The design choices in the Transformer attention mechanism, including weak inductive bias and quadratic computational complexity, have limited its application for modeling long sequences. In this paper, we introduce Mega, a simple,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xuezhe Ma , Chunting Zhou , Xiang Kong , Junxian He , Liangke Gui , Graham Neubig , Jonathan May , Luke Zettlemoyer

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) are attracting widespread interest due to their biological plausibility, energy efficiency, and powerful spatio-temporal information representation ability. Given the critical role of attention mechanisms in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Rui-Jie Zhu , Malu Zhang , Qihang Zhao , Haoyu Deng , Yule Duan , Liang-Jian Deng

A key advantage of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) over Transformers is their linear computational and space complexity enables faster training and inference for long sequences. However, RNNs are fundamentally unable to randomly access…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiang Hu , Jiaqi Leng , Jun Zhao , Kewei Tu , Wei Wu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have proven to be extremely accurate for image recognition, even outperforming human recognition capability. When deployed on battery-powered mobile devices, efficient computer architectures are required…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2020-10-05 Mehdi Ahmadi , Shervin Vakili , J. M. Pierre Langlois

While Transformer self-attention offers strong parallelism, the Key-Value (KV) cache grows linearly with sequence length and becomes a bottleneck for inference efficiency. Multi-head latent attention was recently developed to compress the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Keqi Deng , Philip C. Woodland

Foundation models, now powering most of the exciting applications in deep learning, are almost universally based on the Transformer architecture and its core attention module. Many subquadratic-time architectures such as linear attention,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-03 Albert Gu , Tri Dao

Scaling language models to handle longer input sequences typically necessitates large key-value (KV) caches, resulting in substantial memory overhead during inference. In this paper, we propose Tensor Product Attention (TPA), a novel…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Yifan Zhang , Yifeng Liu , Huizhuo Yuan , Zhen Qin , Yang Yuan , Quanquan Gu , Andrew Chi-Chih Yao

Training a high-performing neural decoder can be difficult when only limited data are available from a recording session. To address this challenge, we propose a Task-Conditioned Latent Alignment framework (TCLA) for cross-session neural…

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The prevalent approach to sequence to sequence learning maps an input sequence to a variable length output sequence via recurrent neural networks. We introduce an architecture based entirely on convolutional neural networks. Compared to…

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Global environmental challenges and rising energy demands have led to extensive exploration of wind energy technologies. Accurate wind speed forecasting (WSF) is crucial for optimizing wind energy capture and ensuring system stability.…

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Transformer achieves promising results on various tasks. However, self-attention suffers from quadratic memory requirements with respect to the sequence length. Existing work focuses on reducing time and space complexity from an algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Shenggui Li , Fuzhao Xue , Chaitanya Baranwal , Yongbin Li , Yang You

In this work, we propose Retentive Network (RetNet) as a foundation architecture for large language models, simultaneously achieving training parallelism, low-cost inference, and good performance. We theoretically derive the connection…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Yutao Sun , Li Dong , Shaohan Huang , Shuming Ma , Yuqing Xia , Jilong Xue , Jianyong Wang , Furu Wei

As the demand for processing extended textual data grows, the ability to handle long-range dependencies and maintain computational efficiency is more critical than ever. One of the key issues for long-sequence modeling using attention-based…

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Non-Local Attention (NLA) brings significant improvement for Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) by leveraging intrinsic feature correlation in natural images. However, NLA gives noisy information large weights and consumes quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Bin Xia , Yucheng Hang , Yapeng Tian , Wenming Yang , Qingmin Liao , Jie Zhou

Deep learning has achieved substantial improvement on single-channel speech enhancement tasks. However, the performance of multi-layer perceptions (MLPs)-based methods is limited by the ability to capture the long-term effective history…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-05-19 Qiquan Zhang , Aaron Nicolson , Mingjiang Wang , Kuldip K. Paliwal , Chenxu Wang

Time series forecasting is essential for a wide range of real-world applications. Recent studies have shown the superiority of Transformer in dealing with such problems, especially long sequence time series input(LSTI) and long sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Li Shen , Yangzhu Wang

Although transformer architectures have achieved state-of-the-art performance across diverse domains, their quadratic computational complexity with respect to sequence length remains a significant bottleneck, particularly for…

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