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In spite of their huge success, transformer models remain difficult to scale in depth. In this work, we develop a unified signal propagation theory and provide formulae that govern the moments of the forward and backward signal through the…

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The transformer structure employed in large language models (LLMs), as a specialized category of deep neural networks (DNNs) featuring attention mechanisms, stands out for their ability to identify and highlight the most relevant aspects of…

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Recently, transformers have become incredibly popular in computer vision and vision-language tasks. This notable rise in their usage can be primarily attributed to the capabilities offered by attention mechanisms and the outstanding ability…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-08 Mayank Vatsa , Anubhooti Jain , Richa Singh

Document layout analysis (DLA) is crucial for understanding the physical layout and logical structure of documents, serving information retrieval, document summarization, knowledge extraction, etc. However, previous studies have typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Jiawei Wang , Kai Hu , Qiang Huo

We present ReadOnce Transformers, an approach to convert a transformer-based model into one that can build an information-capturing, task-independent, and compressed representation of text. The resulting representation is reusable across…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Shih-Ting Lin , Ashish Sabharwal , Tushar Khot

This paper proposes a novel approach to word embeddings in Transformer models by utilizing spinors from geometric algebra. Spinors offer a rich mathematical framework capable of capturing complex relationships and transformations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Rick White

The field of speech processing has undergone a transformative shift with the advent of deep learning. The use of multiple processing layers has enabled the creation of models capable of extracting intricate features from speech data. This…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-05-31 Ambuj Mehrish , Navonil Majumder , Rishabh Bhardwaj , Rada Mihalcea , Soujanya Poria

Semantic Textual Similarity (STS) research has expanded rapidly since 2021, driven by advances in transformer architectures, contrastive learning, and domain-specific techniques. This survey reviews progress across six key areas:…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Lokendra Kumar , Neelesh S. Upadhye , Kannan Piedy

Large language models (LLMs) based on Transformer have been widely applied in the filed of natural language processing (NLP), demonstrating strong performance, particularly in handling short text tasks. However, when it comes to long…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Yijun Liu , Jinzheng Yu , Yang Xu , Zhongyang Li , Qingfu Zhu

Transformers play a central role in the inner workings of large language models. We develop a mathematical framework for analyzing Transformers based on their interpretation as interacting particle systems, which reveals that clusters…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Borjan Geshkovski , Cyril Letrouit , Yury Polyanskiy , Philippe Rigollet

Transformer plays a vital role in the realms of natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV), specially for constructing large language models (LLM) and large vision models (LVM). Model compression methods reduce the memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Yehui Tang , Yunhe Wang , Jianyuan Guo , Zhijun Tu , Kai Han , Hailin Hu , Dacheng Tao

Document Grounded Conversations is a task to generate dialogue responses when chatting about the content of a given document. Obviously, document knowledge plays a critical role in Document Grounded Conversations, while existing dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-02 Zekang Li , Cheng Niu , Fandong Meng , Yang Feng , Qian Li , Jie Zhou

Deep learning-based algorithms have seen a massive popularity in different areas of remote sensing image analysis over the past decade. Recently, transformers-based architectures, originally introduced in natural language processing, have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-05 Abdulaziz Amer Aleissaee , Amandeep Kumar , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Salman Khan , Hisham Cholakkal , Gui-Song Xia , Fahad Shahbaz khan

Change detection, as an important and widely applied technique in the field of remote sensing, aims to analyze changes in surface areas over time and has broad applications in areas such as environmental monitoring, urban development, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-11 Zihan Yu , Tianxiao Li , Yuxin Zhu , Rongze Pan

Despite the extensive success of pretrained language models as encoders for building NLP systems, they haven't seen prominence as decoders for sequence generation tasks. We explore the question of whether these models can be adapted to be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-21 Nishant Subramani , Nivedita Suresh

Asking clarifying questions in response to ambiguous or faceted queries has been recognized as a useful technique for various information retrieval systems, especially conversational search systems with limited bandwidth interfaces.…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Helia Hashemi , Hamed Zamani , W. Bruce Croft

The Transformer architecture has become prominent in developing large causal language models. However, mechanisms to explain its capabilities are not well understood. Focused on the training process, here we establish a meta-learning view…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Xinbo Wu , Lav R. Varshney

Transformer becomes the state-of-the-art translation model, while it is not well studied how each intermediate component contributes to the model performance, which poses significant challenges for designing optimal architectures. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-10 Wenxuan Wang , Zhaopeng Tu

Nobody knows how language works, but many theories abound. Transformers are a class of neural networks that process language automatically with more success than alternatives, both those based on neural computations and those that rely on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-08 Felix Hill

Understanding documents with rich layouts is an essential step towards information extraction. Business intelligence processes often require the extraction of useful semantic content from documents at a large scale for subsequent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Sanket Biswas , Ayan Banerjee , Josep Lladós , Umapada Pal