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Recurrent neural networks are effective models to process sequences. However, they are unable to learn long-term dependencies because of their inherent sequential nature. As a solution, Vaswani et al. introduced the Transformer, a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Quentin Fournier , Gaétan Marceau Caron , Daniel Aloise

Homomorphic encryption (HE)-based deep neural network (DNN) inference protects data and model privacy but suffers from significant computation overhead. We observe transforming the DNN weights into circulant matrices converts general…

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Variant calling refinement is crucial for distinguishing true genetic variants from technical artifacts in high-throughput sequencing data. Manual review is time-consuming while heuristic filtering often lacks optimal solutions. Traditional…

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Large transformer models, such as BERT, achieve state-of-the-art results in machine reading comprehension (MRC) for open-domain question answering (QA). However, transformers have a high computational cost for inference which makes them…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-06 Haytham ElFadeel , Stan Peshterliev

Transformers, a cornerstone of deep-learning architectures for sequential data, have achieved state-of-the-art results in tasks like Natural Language Processing (NLP). Models such as BERT and GPT-3 exemplify their success and have driven…

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Heterogeneous hardware like Gaudi processor has been developed to enhance computations, especially matrix operations for Transformer-based large language models (LLMs) for generative AI tasks. However, our analysis indicates that…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Chengming Zhang , Xinheng Ding , Baixi Sun , Xiaodong Yu , Weijian Zheng , Zhen Xie , Dingwen Tao

In recent years, self-attention has become the dominant paradigm for sequence modeling in a variety of domains. However, in domains with very long sequence lengths the $\mathcal{O}(T^2)$ memory and $\mathcal{O}(T^2 H)$ compute costs can…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Mohammad Mahmudul Alam , Edward Raff , Stella Biderman , Tim Oates , James Holt

Increasing the input length has been a driver of progress in language modeling with transformers. We identify conditions where shorter inputs are not harmful, and achieve perplexity and efficiency improvements through two new methods that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-04 Ofir Press , Noah A. Smith , Mike Lewis

In contemporary cloud-based services, protecting users' sensitive data and ensuring the confidentiality of the server's model are critical. Fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) enables inference directly on encrypted inputs, but its…

Transformers have revolutionized AI in natural language processing and computer vision, but their large computation and memory demands pose major challenges for hardware acceleration. In practice, end-to-end throughput is often limited by…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Qunyou Liu , Marina Zapater , David Atienza

Homomorphic encryption (HE) allows computations to be directly carried out on ciphertexts and is essential to privacy-preserving computing, such as neural network inference, medical diagnosis, and financial data analysis. Only addition and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Sajjad Akherati , Yok Jye Tang , Xinmiao Zhang

Transformer-based models have emerged as promising tools for time series forecasting. However, these model cannot make accurate prediction for long input time series. On the one hand, they failed to capture global dependencies within time…

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We propose GLassoformer, a novel and efficient transformer architecture leveraging group Lasso regularization to reduce the number of queries of the standard self-attention mechanism. Due to the sparsified queries, GLassoformer is more…

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Heavy computation is a bottleneck limiting deep-learningbased feature matching algorithms to be applied in many realtime applications. However, existing lightweight networks optimized for Euclidean data cannot address classical feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-13 Xiaoyong Lu , Yaping Yan , Bin Kang , Songlin Du

As the core building block of vision transformers, attention is a powerful tool to capture long-range dependency. However, such power comes at a cost: it incurs a huge computation burden and heavy memory footprint as pairwise token…

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Deep neural networks are increasingly being used in a variety of machine learning applications applied to rich user data on the cloud. However, this approach introduces a number of privacy and efficiency challenges, as the cloud operator…

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Transformers' quadratic complexity with respect to the input sequence length has motivated a body of work on efficient sparse approximations to softmax. An alternative path, used by entmax transformers, consists of having built-in exact…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Marcos Treviso , António Góis , Patrick Fernandes , Erick Fonseca , André F. T. Martins

In the field of image fusion, promising progress has been made by modeling data from different modalities as linear subspaces. However, in practice, the source images are often located in a non-Euclidean space, where the Euclidean methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-18 Huan Kang , Hui Li , Xiao-Jun Wu , Tianyang Xu , Rui Wang , Chunyang Cheng , Josef Kittler

While transformers have shown great potential on video recognition with their strong capability of capturing long-range dependencies, they often suffer high computational costs induced by the self-attention to the huge number of 3D tokens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-23 Yuxuan Liang , Pan Zhou , Roger Zimmermann , Shuicheng Yan

With the increasing awareness of privacy protection and data fragmentation problem, federated learning has been emerging as a new paradigm of machine learning. Federated learning tends to utilize various privacy preserving mechanisms to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2020-07-23 Zhaoxiong Yang , Shuihai Hu , Kai Chen