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Transformer-based models have demonstrated considerable potential for source code modeling tasks in software engineering. However, they are limited by their dependence solely on automatic self-attention weight learning mechanisms. Previous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Jiri Gesi , Iftekhar Ahmed

Sequential recommendation is an extensively explored approach to capturing users' evolving preferences based on past interactions, aimed at predicting their next likely choice. Despite significant advancements in this domain, including…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Kowei Shih , Yi Han , Li Tan

Sequential recommendation aims to predict the next item a user is likely to prefer based on their sequential interaction history. Recently, text-based sequential recommendation has emerged as a promising paradigm that uses pre-trained…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-05 Hyunsoo Kim , Junyoung Kim , Minjin Choi , Sunkyung Lee , Jongwuk Lee

Transformers have achieved significant success across various domains, relying on self-attention to capture dependencies. However, the standard first-order attention mechanism is often limited by a low-rank bottleneck, struggling to capture…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Hanting Chen , Chong Zhu , Kai Han , Yuchuan Tian , Yuchen Liang , Tianyu Guo , Xinghao Chen , Dacheng Tao , Yunhe Wang

Accurate estimation of remaining useful life (RUL) of industrial equipment can enable advanced maintenance schedules, increase equipment availability and reduce operational costs. However, existing deep learning methods for RUL prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Mohamed Ragab , Zhenghua Chen , Min Wu , Chee-Keong Kwoh , Ruqiang Yan , Xiaoli Li

Self-attention networks (SANs) have drawn increasing interest due to their high parallelization in computation and flexibility in modeling dependencies. SANs can be further enhanced with multi-head attention by allowing the model to attend…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-08 Baosong Yang , Longyue Wang , Derek Wong , Lidia S. Chao , Zhaopeng Tu

Sequential recommendation (SR) learns from the temporal dynamics of user-item interactions to predict the next ones. Fairness-aware recommendation mitigates a variety of algorithmic biases in the learning of user preferences. This paper…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-03 Cheng-Te Li , Cheng Hsu , Yang Zhang

Self-attention (SA) mechanisms have been widely used in developing sequential recommendation (SR) methods, and demonstrated state-of-the-art performance. However, in this paper, we show that self-attentive SR methods substantially suffer…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Bo Peng , Ziqi Chen , Srinivasan Parthasarathy , Xia Ning

Recurrent neural networks are effective models to process sequences. However, they are unable to learn long-term dependencies because of their inherent sequential nature. As a solution, Vaswani et al. introduced the Transformer, a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Quentin Fournier , Gaétan Marceau Caron , Daniel Aloise

Many real-world phenomena are observed at multiple resolutions. Predictive models designed to predict these phenomena typically consider different resolutions separately. This approach might be limiting in applications where predictions are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-07 Guruprasad Nayak , Rahul Ghosh , Xiaowei Jia , Varun Mithal , Vipin Kumar

In session-based or sequential recommendation, it is important to consider a number of factors like long-term user engagement, multiple types of user-item interactions such as clicks, purchases etc. The current state-of-the-art supervised…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Xin Xin , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Ioannis Arapakis , Joemon M. Jose

Offline reinforcement learning refers to the process of learning policies from fixed datasets, without requiring additional environment interaction. However, it often relies on well-defined reward functions, which are difficult and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Xiancheng Gao , Yufeng Shi , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li

In recommender systems, models mostly use a combination of embedding layers and multilayer feedforward neural networks. The high-dimensional sparse original features are downscaled in the embedding layer and then fed into the fully…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-05-19 Mohan Hasama , Jing Li

Unsupervised style transfer aims to change the style of an input sentence while preserving its original content without using parallel training data. In current dominant approaches, owing to the lack of fine-grained control on the influence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Chulun Zhou , Liangyu Chen , Jiachen Liu , Xinyan Xiao , Jinsong Su , Sheng Guo , Hua Wu

Factorization Machines (FMs) are a supervised learning approach that enhances the linear regression model by incorporating the second-order feature interactions. Despite effectiveness, FM can be hindered by its modelling of all feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-17 Jun Xiao , Hao Ye , Xiangnan He , Hanwang Zhang , Fei Wu , Tat-Seng Chua

Various Transformer-based models have been proposed for time series forecasting. These models leverage the self-attention mechanism to capture long-term temporal or variate dependencies in sequences. Existing methods can be divided into two…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Daichi Kimura , Tomonori Izumitani , Hisashi Kashima

Personalization of automatic speech recognition (ASR) models is a widely studied topic because of its many practical applications. Most recently, attention-based contextual biasing techniques are used to improve the recognition of rare…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi , Devang Kulshreshtha , Saket Dingliwal , Srikanth Ronanki , Sravan Bodapati

Attributes, such as metadata and profile, carry useful information which in principle can help improve accuracy in recommender systems. However, existing approaches have difficulty in fully leveraging attribute information due to practical…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-05-31 Kuan Liu , Xing Shi , Prem Natarajan

This work aims to predict channels in wireless communication systems based on noisy observations, utilizing sequence-to-sequence models with attention (Seq2Seq-attn) and transformer models. Both models are adapted from natural language…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-09-05 Valentina Rizzello , Benedikt Böck , Michael Joham , Wolfgang Utschick

RANSAC and its variants are widely used for robust estimation, however, they commonly follow a greedy approach to finding the highest scoring model while ignoring other model hypotheses. In contrast, Iteratively Reweighted Least Squares…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Luca Cavalli , Daniel Barath , Marc Pollefeys , Viktor Larsson