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The neural attention mechanism has been incorporated into deep neural networks to achieve state-of-the-art performance in various domains. Most such models use multi-head self-attention which is appealing for the ability to attend to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Shujian Zhang , Xinjie Fan , Huangjie Zheng , Korawat Tanwisuth , Mingyuan Zhou

Multi-head attention is appealing for its ability to jointly extract different types of information from multiple representation subspaces. Concerning the information aggregation, a common practice is to use a concatenation followed by a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Jian Li , Baosong Yang , Zi-Yi Dou , Xing Wang , Michael R. Lyu , Zhaopeng Tu

The self-attention mechanism, at the heart of the Transformer model, is able to effectively model pairwise interactions between tokens. However, numerous recent works have shown that it is unable to perform basic tasks involving detecting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Sayak Chakrabarti , Toniann Pitassi , Josh Alman

Convolution and self-attention are two powerful techniques for representation learning, and they are usually considered as two peer approaches that are distinct from each other. In this paper, we show that there exists a strong underlying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Xuran Pan , Chunjiang Ge , Rui Lu , Shiji Song , Guanfu Chen , Zeyi Huang , Gao Huang

Sparse attention methods exploit the inherent sparsity in attention to speed up the prefilling phase of long-context inference, mitigating the quadratic complexity of full attention computation. While existing sparse attention methods rely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Dan Peng , Zhihui Fu , Zewen Ye , Zhuoran Song , Jun Wang

Multi-head self-attention is a distinctive feature extraction mechanism of vision transformers that computes pairwise relationships among all input patches, contributing significantly to their high performance. However, it is known to incur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yuki Igaue , Hiroaki Aizawa

Attention is a powerful and ubiquitous mechanism for allowing neural models to focus on particular salient pieces of information by taking their weighted average when making predictions. In particular, multi-headed attention is a driving…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Paul Michel , Omer Levy , Graham Neubig

In this paper, to remedy this deficiency, we propose a Linear Attention Mechanism which is approximate to dot-product attention with much less memory and computational costs. The efficient design makes the incorporation between attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Rui Li , Jianlin Su , Chenxi Duan , Shunyi Zheng

Personality computing and affective computing have gained recent interest in many research areas. The datasets for the task generally have multiple modalities like video, audio, language and bio-signals. In this paper, we propose a flexible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Tanay Agrawal , Dhruv Agarwal , Michal Balazia , Neelabh Sinha , Francois Bremond

Vision Transformers are very popular nowadays due to their state-of-the-art performance in several computer vision tasks, such as image classification and action recognition. Although their performance has been greatly enhanced through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Dimitrios Konstantinidis , Ilias Papastratis , Kosmas Dimitropoulos , Petros Daras

We present a novel technique for interpreting the neurons in CLIP-ResNet by decomposing their contributions to the output into individual computation paths. More specifically, we analyze all pairwise combinations of neurons and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Edmund Bu , Yossi Gandelsman

Both biological cortico-thalamic networks and artificial transformer networks use canonical computations to perform a wide range of cognitive tasks. In this work, we propose that the structure of cortico-thalamic circuits is well suited to…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-12 Arno Granier , Walter Senn

The state of the art in learning meaningful semantic representations of words is the Transformer model and its attention mechanisms. Simply put, the attention mechanisms learn to attend to specific parts of the input dispensing recurrence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Dongsheng Wang , Casper Hansen , Lucas Chaves Lima , Christian Hansen , Maria Maistro , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Christina Lioma

Effective feature fusion of multispectral images plays a crucial role in multi-spectral object detection. Previous studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of feature fusion using convolutional neural networks, but these methods are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Jifeng Shen , Yifei Chen , Yue Liu , Xin Zuo , Heng Fan , Wankou Yang

In this paper, we propose a novel cross-attention-based generative adversarial network (GAN) for the challenging person image generation task. Cross-attention is a novel and intuitive multi-modal fusion method in which an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Hao Tang , Ling Shao , Nicu Sebe , Luc Van Gool

Local features at neighboring spatial positions in feature maps have high correlation since their receptive fields are often overlapped. Self-attention usually uses the weighted sum (or other functions) with internal elements of each local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-06 Yang Du , Chunfeng Yuan , Bing Li , Lili Zhao , Yangxi Li , Weiming Hu

Decentralized learning with private data is a central problem in machine learning. We propose a novel distillation-based decentralized learning technique that allows multiple agents with private non-iid data to learn from each other,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Andrey Zhmoginov , Mark Sandler , Nolan Miller , Gus Kristiansen , Max Vladymyrov

Convolutional layers are an integral part of many deep neural network solutions in computer vision. Recent work shows that replacing the standard convolution operation with mechanisms based on self-attention leads to improved performance on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Souvik Kundu , Hesham Mostafa , Sharath Nittur Sridhar , Sairam Sundaresan

The self-attention mechanism has been a key factor in the advancement of vision Transformers. However, its quadratic complexity imposes a heavy computational burden in high-resolution scenarios, restricting the practical application.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Dongchen Han , Tianyu Li , Ziyi Wang , Gao Huang

Multimodal human action understanding is a significant problem in computer vision, with the central challenge being the effective utilization of the complementarity among diverse modalities while maintaining model efficiency. However, most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Hongsong Wang , Heng Fei , Bingxuan Dai , Jie Gui