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Point cloud registration is a fundamental task in many applications such as localization, mapping, tracking, and reconstruction. Successful registration relies on extracting robust and discriminative geometric features. Though existing…

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The attention mechanism forms the foundational blocks for transformer language models. Recent approaches show that scaling the model achieves human-level performance. However, with increasing demands for scaling and constraints on hardware…

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Transformers, which are state-of-the-art in most machine learning tasks, represent the data as sequences of vectors called tokens. This representation is then exploited by the attention function, which learns dependencies between tokens and…

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Transformer architecture has been very successful long runner in the field of Deep Learning (DL) and Large Language Models (LLM) because of its powerful attention-based learning and parallel-natured architecture. As the models grow gigantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Phani Kumar , Nyshadham , Jyothendra Varma , Polisetty V R K , Aditya Rathore

Collider data generation with machine learning has become increasingly popular in particle physics due to the high computational cost of conventional Monte Carlo simulations, particularly for future high-luminosity colliders. We propose a…

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Self-attention networks have proven to be of profound value for its strength of capturing global dependencies. In this work, we propose to model localness for self-attention networks, which enhances the ability of capturing useful local…

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Surface reconstruction from raw point clouds has been studied for decades in the computer graphics community, which is highly demanded by modeling and rendering applications nowadays. Classic solutions, such as Poisson surface…

Graphics · Computer Science 2023-10-11 Hui Tian , Zheng Qin , Renjiao Yi , Chenyang Zhu , Kai Xu

3D semantic occupancy has rapidly become a research focus in the fields of robotics and autonomous driving environment perception due to its ability to provide more realistic geometric perception and its closer integration with downstream…

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In 3D point cloud understanding, the core challenge lies in accurately capturing discriminative features within complex neighborhoods, which directly affects the execution precision of downstream tasks such as embodied AI and autonomous…

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This work proposes an extensive analysis of the Transformer architecture in the Neural Machine Translation (NMT) setting. Focusing on the encoder-decoder attention mechanism, we prove that attention weights systematically make alignment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Javier Ferrando , Marta R. Costa-jussà

Although the application of Transformers in 3D point cloud processing has achieved significant progress and success, it is still challenging for existing 3D Transformer methods to efficiently and accurately learn both valuable global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Dening Lu , Kyle Gao , Qian Xie , Linlin Xu , Jonathan Li

This study proposes an anomaly detection method based on the Transformer architecture with integrated multiscale feature perception, aiming to address the limitations of temporal modeling and scale-aware feature representation in cloud…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Lian Lian , Yilin Li , Song Han , Renzi Meng , Sibo Wang , Ming Wang

Point Transformers are near state-of-the-art models for classification, segmentation, and detection tasks on Point Cloud data. They utilize a self attention based mechanism to model large range spatial dependencies between multiple point…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Kartik Gupta , Rahul Vippala , Sahima Srivastava

Pre-training on large-scale unlabeled datasets contribute to the model achieving powerful performance on 3D vision tasks, especially when annotations are limited. However, existing rendering-based self-supervised frameworks are…

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We present a novel architecture for dense correspondence. The current state-of-the-art are Transformer-based approaches that focus on either feature descriptors or cost volume aggregation. However, they generally aggregate one or the other…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-21 Sunghwan Hong , Seokju Cho , Seungryong Kim , Stephen Lin

Transformers have been proven a successful model for a variety of tasks in sequence modeling. However, computing the attention matrix, which is their key component, has quadratic complexity with respect to the sequence length, thus making…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-01 Apoorv Vyas , Angelos Katharopoulos , François Fleuret

Transformers have been at the heart of the Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) revolutions. The significant success in NLP and CV inspired exploring the use of Transformers in point cloud processing. However, how do…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Dening Lu , Qian Xie , Mingqiang Wei , Kyle Gao , Linlin Xu , Jonathan Li

We propose the Gaussian attention model for content-based neural memory access. With the proposed attention model, a neural network has the additional degree of freedom to control the focus of its attention from a laser sharp attention to a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2016-12-01 Liwen Zhang , John Winn , Ryota Tomioka

The quadratic complexity of self-attention in Transformer models remains a significant bottleneck for processing long sequences and deploying large language models efficiently. For this approach, there has been significant research into…

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Using 3D point clouds in odometry estimation in robotics often requires finding a set of correspondences between points in subsequent scans. While there are established methods for point clouds of sufficient quality, state-of-the-art still…

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