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Powerful foundation models, including large language models (LLMs), with Transformer architectures have ushered in a new era of Generative AI across various industries. Industry and research community have witnessed a large number of new…

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Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Eva Silverstein , Daniel Kunin , Vasudev Shyam

We propose a neural machine translation architecture that models the surrounding text in addition to the source sentence. These models lead to better performance, both in terms of general translation quality and pronoun prediction, when…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-19 Sebastien Jean , Stanislas Lauly , Orhan Firat , Kyunghyun Cho

Memory-augmented neural networks consisting of a neural controller and an external memory have shown potentials in long-term sequential learning. Current RAM-like memory models maintain memory accessing every timesteps, thus they do not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-03-21 Hung Le , Truyen Tran , Svetha Venkatesh

Transfer learning can boost the performance on the targettask by leveraging the knowledge of the source domain. Recent worksin neural architecture search (NAS), especially one-shot NAS, can aidtransfer learning by establishing sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Ming Sun , Haoxuan Dou , Junjie Yan

Transformers have reshaped machine learning by utilizing attention mechanisms to capture complex patterns in large datasets, leading to significant improvements in performance. This success has contributed to the belief that "bigger means…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Hemanth Saratchandran , Damien Teney , Simon Lucey

We introduce learned attention models into the radio machine learning domain for the task of modulation recognition by leveraging spatial transformer networks and introducing new radio domain appropriate transformations. This attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-05-04 Timothy J O'Shea , Latha Pemula , Dhruv Batra , T. Charles Clancy

Transformers excel at sequence modeling but face quadratic complexity, while linear attention offers improved efficiency but often compromises recall accuracy over long contexts. In this work, we introduce Native Hybrid Attention (NHA), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Jusen Du , Jiaxi Hu , Tao Zhang , Weigao Sun , Yu Cheng

Transformer-based language models significantly advanced the state-of-the-art in many linguistic tasks. As this revolution continues, the ability to explain model predictions has become a major area of interest for the NLP community. In…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Oren Barkan , Edan Hauon , Avi Caciularu , Ori Katz , Itzik Malkiel , Omri Armstrong , Noam Koenigstein

Large Language Models (LLMs) are known for their expensive and time-consuming training. Thus, oftentimes, LLMs are fine-tuned to address a specific task, given the pretrained weights of a pre-trained LLM considered a foundation model. In…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Eshed Gal , Moshe Eliasof , Javier Turek , Uri Ascher , Eran Treister , Eldad Haber

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) methods have been shown to outperform hand-designed models and help to democratize AI. However, NAS methods often start from scratch with each new task, making them computationally expensive and limiting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Prabhant Singh , Joaquin Vanschoren

Recently, the Transformer machine translation system has shown strong results by stacking attention layers on both the source and target-language sides. But the inference of this model is slow due to the heavy use of dot-product attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-27 Tong Xiao , Yinqiao Li , Jingbo Zhu , Zhengtao Yu , Tongran Liu

Transformer models gain popularity because of their superior inference accuracy and inference throughput. However, the transformer is computation-intensive, causing a long inference time. The existing works on transformer inference…

Performance · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yuan Feng , Hyeran Jeon , Filip Blagojevic , Cyril Guyot , Qing Li , Dong Li

Transformers have become the dominant architecture across a wide range of domains, largely due to the effectiveness of multi-head attention in capturing diverse representation subspaces. However, standard multi-head attention activates all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Bilal Faye , Abdoulaye Mbaye , Hanane Azzag , Mustapha Lebbah

While linear attention architectures offer efficient inference, compressing unbounded history into a fixed-size memory inherently limits expressivity and causes information loss. To address this limitation, we introduce Random Access Memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Kaicheng Xiao , Haotian Li , Liran Dong , Guoliang Xing

Typical neural networks with external memory do not effectively separate capacity for episodic and working memory as is required for reasoning in humans. Applying knowledge gained from psychological studies, we designed a new model called…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-10-01 T. S. Jayram , Younes Bouhadjar , Ryan L. McAvoy , Tomasz Kornuta , Alexis Asseman , Kamil Rocki , Ahmet S. Ozcan

Attention mechanisms are a central property of cognitive systems allowing them to selectively deploy cognitive resources in a flexible manner. Attention has been long studied in the neurosciences and there are numerous phenomenological…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Ryan Singh , Christopher L. Buckley

As models continue to grow in size, the development of memory optimization methods (MOMs) has emerged as a solution to address the memory bottleneck encountered when training large models. To comprehensively examine the practical value of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Xiaoxuan Liu , Siddharth Jha , Alvin Cheung

Transformer-based large language models (LLM) have been widely used in language processing applications. However, due to the memory constraints of the devices, most of them restrict the context window. Even though recurrent models in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-07 Zifan He , Yingqi Cao , Zongyue Qin , Neha Prakriya , Yizhou Sun , Jason Cong

Despite the progress made in sentence-level NMT, current systems still fall short at achieving fluent, good quality translation for a full document. Recent works in context-aware NMT consider only a few previous sentences as context and may…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-27 Sameen Maruf , André F. T. Martins , Gholamreza Haffari