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In Transformer-based architectures, the attention mechanism is inherently permutation-invariant with respect to the input sequence's tokens. To impose sequential order, token positions are typically encoded using a scheme with either fixed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Giorgio Angelotti

A key module in neural transformer-based deep architectures is positional encoding. This module enables a suitable way to encode positional information as input for transformer neural layers. This success has been rooted in the use of…

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Fourier Neural Operators (FNO) offer a principled approach to solving challenging partial differential equations (PDE) such as turbulent flows. At the core of FNO is a spectral layer that leverages a discretization-convergent representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-06 Robert Joseph George , Jiawei Zhao , Jean Kossaifi , Zongyi Li , Anima Anandkumar

Position encoding (PE), an essential part of self-attention networks (SANs), is used to preserve the word order information for natural language processing tasks, generating fixed position indices for input sequences. However, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Liang Ding , Longyue Wang , Dacheng Tao

Hyperspectral imaging (HSI) provides rich spectral-spatial information across hundreds of contiguous bands, enabling precise material discrimination in applications such as environmental monitoring, agriculture, and urban analysis. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Saad Sohail , Muhammad Usama , Usman Ghous , Manuel Mazzara , Salvatore Distefano , Muhammad Ahmad

Spectral bias implies an imbalance in training dynamics, whereby high-frequency components may converge substantially more slowly than low-frequency ones. To alleviate this issue, we propose a cross-attention-based architecture that…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Xiaodong Feng , Tao Tang , Xiaoliang Wan , Tao Zhou

This paper introduces a novel approach to position embeddings in transformer models, named "Exact Positional Embeddings" (ExPE). An absolute positional embedding method that can extrapolate to sequences of lengths longer than the ones it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Aleksis Datseris , Sylvia Vassileva , Ivan Koychev , Svetla Boytcheva

Transformers rely on positional encoding to compensate for the inherent permutation invariance of self-attention. Traditional approaches use absolute sinusoidal embeddings or learned positional vectors, while more recent methods emphasize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chase van de Geijn , Ayush Paliwal , Timo Lüddecke , Alexander S. Ecker

The process of tuning the size of the hidden layers for autoencoders has the benefit of providing optimally compressed representations for the input data. However, such hyper-parameter tuning process would take a lot of computation and time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Sarthak Ketanbhai Modi , Zi Pong Lim , Yushi Cao , Yupeng Cheng , Yon Shin Teo , Shang-Wei Lin

Without positional information, attention-based Transformer neural networks are permutation-invariant. Absolute or relative positional embeddings are the most popular ways to feed Transformer models with positional information. Absolute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Tatiana Likhomanenko , Qiantong Xu , Gabriel Synnaeve , Ronan Collobert , Alex Rogozhnikov

Sparse-view Cone-Beam Computed Tomography reconstruction from limited X-ray projections remains a challenging problem in medical imaging due to the inherent undersampling of fine-grained anatomical details, which correspond to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Cuong Tran Van , Trong-Thang Pham , Ngoc-Son Nguyen , Duy Minh Ho Nguyen , Ngan Le

Positional encoding has become the de facto standard for grounding deep neural networks on discrete point-wise positions, and it has achieved remarkable success in tasks where the input can be represented as a one-dimensional sequence.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yuhang He

Transformer architecture has enabled recent progress in speech enhancement. Since Transformers are position-agostic, positional encoding is the de facto standard component used to enable Transformers to distinguish the order of elements in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Qiquan Zhang , Meng Ge , Hongxu Zhu , Eliathamby Ambikairajah , Qi Song , Zhaoheng Ni , Haizhou Li

Fourier-encoded implicit neural representations (INRs) have shown strong capability in modeling continuous signals from discrete samples. However, conventional Fourier feature mappings use a fixed set of frequencies over the entire spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Ligen Shi , Jun Qiu , Yuhang Zheng , Zengyu Pang , Chang Liu

Despite the growing interest in unsupervised learning, extracting meaningful knowledge from unlabelled audio remains an open challenge. To take a step in this direction, we recently proposed a problem-agnostic speech encoder (PASE), that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-04-21 Mirco Ravanelli , Jianyuan Zhong , Santiago Pascual , Pawel Swietojanski , Joao Monteiro , Jan Trmal , Yoshua Bengio

Fourier Neural Operators are deep learning models that learn mappings between function spaces and can be used to learn and solve partial differential equations (PDEs), in some cases significantly faster than traditional PDE solvers. Within…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Michael F. Staddon

Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have become an important tool in mechanistic interpretability, helping to analyze internal representations in both Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs). By decomposing polysemantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Jakub Stępień , Marcin Mazur , Jacek Tabor , Przemysław Spurek

Transformer has shown promising results in many sequence to sequence transformation tasks recently. It utilizes a number of feed-forward self-attention layers to replace the recurrent neural networks (RNN) in attention-based encoder decoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Pan Zhou , Ruchao Fan , Wei Chen , Jia Jia

Comorbidity, the co-occurrence of multiple medical conditions in a single patient, profoundly impacts disease management and outcomes. Understanding these complex interconnections is crucial, especially in contexts where comorbidities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Xihan Qin , Li Liao

Designing effective positional encodings for graphs is key to building powerful graph transformers and enhancing message-passing graph neural networks. Although widespread, using Laplacian eigenvectors as positional encodings faces two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Yinan Huang , William Lu , Joshua Robinson , Yu Yang , Muhan Zhang , Stefanie Jegelka , Pan Li