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Attention-based models such as transformers have shown outstanding performance on dense prediction tasks, such as semantic segmentation, owing to their capability of capturing long-range dependency in an image. However, the benefit of…

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Central to the success of Transformers is the attention block, which effectively models global dependencies among input tokens associated to a dataset. However, we theoretically demonstrate that standard attention mechanisms in transformers…

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Transformer models have emerged as fundamental tools across various scientific and engineering disciplines, owing to their outstanding performance in diverse applications. Despite this empirical success, the theoretical foundations of…

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Graph fraud detection (GFD) is crucial for identifying fraudulent behavior within graphs, benefiting various domains such as financial networks and social media. Existing methods based on graph neural networks (GNNs) have succeeded…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Jiaqi Lv , Qingfeng Du , Yu Zhang , Yongqi Han , Sheng Li

We introduce the Graded Transformer framework, a new class of sequence models that embeds algebraic inductive biases through grading transformations on vector spaces. Extending Graded Neural Networks (GNNs), we propose two architectures:…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Tony Shaska

Deep ConvNets suffer from gradient signal degradation as network depth increases, limiting effective feature learning in complex architectures. ResNet addressed this through residual connections, but these fixed short-circuits cannot adapt…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Soudeep Ghoshal , Himanshu Buckchash

The Vision Transformer (ViT) has made significant advancements in computer vision, utilizing self-attention mechanisms to achieve state-of-the-art performance across various tasks, including image classification, object detection, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sehyeong Jo , Gangjae Jang , Haesol Park

Benefiting from powerful convolutional neural networks (CNNs), learning-based image inpainting methods have made significant breakthroughs over the years. However, some nature of CNNs (e.g. local prior, spatially shared parameters) limit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Ye Deng , Siqi Hui , Sanping Zhou , Deyu Meng , Jinjun Wang

Transformers have revolutionized performance in Natural Language Processing and Vision, paving the way for their integration with Graph Neural Networks (GNNs). One key challenge in enhancing graph transformers is strengthening the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Yun Young Choi , Sun Woo Park , Minho Lee , Youngho Woo

Recent studies have revealed various manifestations of position bias in transformer architectures, from the "lost-in-the-middle" phenomenon to attention sinks, yet a comprehensive theoretical understanding of how attention masks and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xinyi Wu , Yifei Wang , Stefanie Jegelka , Ali Jadbabaie

One common belief is that with complex models and pre-training on large-scale datasets, transformer-based methods for referring expression comprehension (REC) perform much better than existing graph-based methods. We observe that since most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Jingcheng Ke , Dele Wang , Jun-Cheng Chen , I-Hong Jhuo , Chia-Wen Lin , Yen-Yu Lin

We propose the Interferometric Graph Transform (IGT), which is a new class of deep unsupervised graph convolutional neural network for building graph representations. Our first contribution is to propose a generic, complex-valued spectral…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Edouard Oyallon

Graph transformer has been proven as an effective graph learning method for its adoption of attention mechanism that is capable of capturing expressive representations from complex topological and feature information of graphs. Graph…

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The Transformer has emerged as a versatile and effective architecture with broad applications. However, it still remains an open problem how to efficiently train a Transformer model of high utility with differential privacy guarantees. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-30 Youlong Ding , Xueyang Wu , Hao Wang , Weike Pan

Using Large Language Models (LLMs) to process graph-structured data is an active research area, yet current state-of-the-art approaches typically rely on multi-step pipelines with Graph Neural Network (GNN) encoders that compress rich…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Dario Vajda

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) update node representations through message passing, which is primarily based on the homophily principle, assuming that adjacent nodes share similar features. However, in real-world graphs with long-tailed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Van Thuy Hoang , Hyeon-Ju Jeon , O-Joun Lee

Attention is a general reasoning mechanism than can flexibly deal with image information, but its memory requirements had made it so far impractical for high resolution image generation. We present Grid Partitioned Attention (GPA), a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-09 Nikolay Jetchev , Gökhan Yildirim , Christian Bracher , Roland Vollgraf

Graph transformers (GTs) have emerged as a promising architecture that is theoretically more expressive than message-passing graph neural networks (GNNs). However, typical GT models have at least quadratic complexity and thus cannot scale…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Chenhui Deng , Zichao Yue , Zhiru Zhang

Transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance across diverse domains. The key component of Transformers is self-attention, which learns the relationship between any two tokens in the input sequence. Recent studies have revealed that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Hyowon Wi , Jeongwhan Choi , Noseong Park

Transformer models have recently gained popularity in graph representation learning as they have the potential to learn complex relationships beyond the ones captured by regular graph neural networks. The main research question is how to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Yuankai Luo , Veronika Thost , Lei Shi