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Large pre-trained models have achieved outstanding results in sequence modeling. The Transformer block and its attention mechanism have been the main drivers of the success of these models. Recently, alternative architectures, such as…

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State space models (SSMs) have high performance on long sequence modeling but require sophisticated initialization techniques and specialized implementations for high quality and runtime performance. We study whether a simple alternative…

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Models of neural networks have proven their utility in the development of learning algorithms in computer science and in the theoretical study of brain dynamics in computational neuroscience. We propose in this paper a spatial neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2014-05-06 Lucas Antiqueira , Liang Zhao

Continuous-time state-space models (SSMs) are flexible tools for analysing irregularly sampled sequential observations that are driven by an underlying state process. Corresponding applications typically involve restrictive assumptions…

Methodology · Statistics 2020-10-29 Sina Mews , Roland Langrock , Marius Ötting , Houda Yaqine , Jost Reinecke

Neural networks in many varieties are touted as very powerful machine learning tools because of their ability to distill large amounts of information from different forms of data, extracting complex features and enabling powerful…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-06-13 Stephen Notley , Malik Magdon-Ismail

Recently, strong results have been demonstrated by Deep Recurrent Neural Networks on natural language transduction problems. In this paper we explore the representational power of these models using synthetic grammars designed to exhibit…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-11-04 Edward Grefenstette , Karl Moritz Hermann , Mustafa Suleyman , Phil Blunsom

We introduce Centaurus, a class of networks composed of generalized state-space model (SSM) blocks, where the SSM operations can be treated as tensor contractions during training. The optimal order of tensor contractions can then be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yan Ru Pei

Support vector machines (SVMs) have been successful in solving many computer vision tasks including image and video category recognition especially for small and mid-scale training problems. The principle of these non-parametric models is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-13 Hichem Sahbi

Transformers have led to learning-based image compression methods that outperform traditional approaches. However, these methods often suffer from high complexity, limiting their practical application. To address this, various strategies…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-06 Bouzid Arezki , Anissa Mokraoui , Fangchen Feng

Although state-space models (SSMs) have demonstrated strong performance on long-sequence benchmarks, most research has emphasized predictive accuracy rather than interpretability. In this work, we present the first systematic kernel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Srividya Ravikumar , Abhinav Anand , Shweta Verma , Mira Mezini

Recurrent neural networks (RNNs) have drawn interest from machine learning researchers because of their effectiveness at preserving past inputs for time-varying data processing tasks. To understand the success and limitations of RNNs, it is…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2017-01-30 Adam Charles , Dong Yin , Christopher Rozell

Sum-Product Networks (SPNs) are recently introduced deep tractable probabilistic models by which several kinds of inference queries can be answered exactly and in a tractable time. Up to now, they have been largely used as black box density…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Antonio Vergari , Nicola Di Mauro , Floriana Esposito

Visual data such as images and videos are typically modeled as discretizations of inherently continuous, multidimensional signals. Existing continuous-signal models attempt to exploit this fact by modeling the underlying signals of visual…

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Transformer is a deep neural network that employs a self-attention mechanism to comprehend the contextual relationships within sequential data. Unlike conventional neural networks or updated versions of Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Saidul Islam , Hanae Elmekki , Ahmed Elsebai , Jamal Bentahar , Najat Drawel , Gaith Rjoub , Witold Pedrycz

Processing long temporal sequences is a key challenge in deep learning. In recent years, Transformers have become state-of-the-art for this task, but suffer from excessive memory requirements due to the need to explicitly store the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Sebastian Siegel , Ming-Jay Yang , John-Paul Strachan

Deep state-space models (SSMs) have gained increasing popularity in sequence modelling. While there are numerous theoretical investigations of shallow SSMs, how the depth of the SSM affects its expressiveness remains a crucial problem. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Zeyu Bao , Penghao Yu , Haotian Jiang , Qianxiao Li

Recently, MLP-based vision backbones have achieved promising performance in several visual recognition tasks. However, the existing MLP-based methods directly aggregate tokens with static weights, leaving the adaptability to different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-18 Zhiqiang Hu , Tao Yu

A primary spectral submanifold (SSM) is the unique smoothest nonlinear continuation of a nonresonant spectral subspace $E$ of a dynamical system linearized at a fixed point. Passing from the full nonlinear dynamics to the flow on an…

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Learning meaningful and interpretable representations from high-dimensional volumetric magnetic resonance (MR) images is essential for advancing personalized medicine. While Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown promise in handling image…

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Spacecraft operations are highly critical, demanding impeccable reliability and safety. Ensuring the optimal performance of a spacecraft requires the early detection and mitigation of anomalies, which could otherwise result in unit or…

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