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Pairwise dot product-based attention allows Transformers to exchange information between tokens in an input-dependent way, and is key to their success across diverse applications in language and vision. However, a typical Transformer model…

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in multi-modal reasoning, but their inference time efficiency remains a significant challenge due to the memory overhead during decoding, especially when the query and…

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This work aims to improve the efficiency of vision transformers (ViT). While ViTs use computationally expensive self-attention operations in every layer, we identify that these operations are highly correlated across layers -- a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Shashanka Venkataramanan , Amir Ghodrati , Yuki M. Asano , Fatih Porikli , Amirhossein Habibian

While attention mechanisms have been proven to be effective in many NLP tasks, majority of them are data-driven. We propose a novel knowledge-attention encoder which incorporates prior knowledge from external lexical resources into deep…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-03-05 Pengfei Li , Kezhi Mao , Xuefeng Yang , Qi Li

In the field of multimodal segmentation, the correlation between different modalities can be considered for improving the segmentation results. Considering the correlation between different MR modalities, in this paper, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Tongxue Zhou , Su Ruan , Pierre Vera , Stéphane Canu

The Transformer has proven to be a significant approach in feature interaction for CTR prediction, achieving considerable success in previous works. However, it also presents potential challenges in handling feature interactions. Firstly,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Yi Xu , Zhiyuan Lu , Xiaochen Li , Jinxin Hu , Hong Wen , Zulong Chen , Yu Zhang , Jing Zhang

Deep image hashing aims to map input images into simple binary hash codes via deep neural networks and thus enable effective large-scale image retrieval. Recently, hybrid networks that combine convolution and Transformer have achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-15 Chao He , Hongxi Wei

Self-attention has greatly contributed to the success of the widely used Transformer architecture by enabling learning from data with long-range dependencies. In an effort to improve performance, a gated attention model that leverages a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Viet Nguyen , Tuan Minh Pham , Thinh Cao , Tan Dinh , Huy Nguyen , Nhat Ho , Alessandro Rinaldo

An attention matrix of a transformer self-attention sublayer can provably be decomposed into two components and only one of them (effective attention) contributes to the model output. This leads us to ask whether visualizing effective…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Kaiser Sun , Ana Marasović

Cross-modal transfer learning is used to improve multi-modal classification models (e.g., for human activity recognition in human-robot collaboration). However, existing methods require paired sensor data at both training and inference,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Leen Daher , Zhaobo Wang , Malcolm Mielle

The success of Transformer language models is widely credited to their dot-product attention mechanism, which interweaves a set of key design principles: mixing information across positions (enabling multi-token interactions),…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Huiyin Xue , Nafise Sadat Moosavi , Nikolaos Aletras

Human activity recognition in videos has been widely studied and has recently gained significant advances with deep learning approaches; however, it remains a challenging task. In this paper, we propose a novel framework that simultaneously…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Dong-Gyu Lee , Seong-Whan Lee

Medical image segmentation remains particularly challenging for complex and low-contrast anatomical structures. In this paper, we introduce the U-Transformer network, which combines a U-shaped architecture for image segmentation with self-…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-03-15 Olivier Petit , Nicolas Thome , Clément Rambour , Luc Soler

Conventional attention-based Neural Machine Translation (NMT) conducts dynamic alignment in generating the target sentence. By repeatedly reading the representation of source sentence, which keeps fixed after generated by the encoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-18 Fandong Meng , Zhengdong Lu , Hang Li , Qun Liu

While the Self-Attention mechanism in the Transformer model has proven to be effective in many domains, we observe that it is less effective in more diverse settings (e.g. multimodality) due to the varying granularity of each token and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Wayner Barrios , SouYoung Jin

A key concern in integrating machine learning models in medicine is the ability to interpret their reasoning. Popular explainability methods have demonstrated satisfactory results in natural image recognition, yet in medical image analysis,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-08 Tom Ron , Michal Weiler-Sagie , Tamir Hazan

Vision Transformers have made remarkable progress in recent years, achieving state-of-the-art performance in most vision tasks. A key component of this success is due to the introduction of the Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHSA) module, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Tianxiao Zhang , Bo Luo , Guanghui Wang

Attention mechanism has been extensively integrated within mainstream neural network architectures, such as Transformers and graph attention networks. Yet, its underlying working principles remain somewhat elusive. What is its essence? Are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-25 Tianyu Ruan , Shihua Zhang

Distributed attention is a fundamental problem for scaling context window for Large Language Models (LLMs). The state-of-the-art method, Ring-Attention, suffers from scalability limitations due to its excessive communication traffic. This…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Sirui Chen , Jingji Chen , Siqi Zhu , Ziheng Jiang , Yanghua Peng , Xuehai Qian

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