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The use of transformer-based models is growing rapidly throughout society. With this growth, it is important to understand how they work, and in particular, how the attention mechanisms represent concepts. Though there are many…

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Obtaining an accurate ground state wave function is one of the great challenges in the quantum many-body problem. In this paper, we propose a new class of wave functions, neural network backflow (NNB). The backflow approach, pioneered…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2019-06-19 Di Luo , Bryan K. Clark

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) offer a biologically inspired computational paradigm that emulates neuronal activity through discrete spike-based processing. Despite their advantages, training SNNs with traditional backpropagation (BP)…

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Convolutional Neural Network (CNN)-based filters have achieved significant performance in video artifacts reduction. However, the high complexity of existing methods makes it difficult to be applied in real usage. In this paper, a CNN-based…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-09-08 Chao Liu , Heming Sun , Jiro Katto , Xiaoyang Zeng , Yibo Fan

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely used over many areas in compute vision. Especially in classification. Recently, FlowNet and several works on opti- cal estimation using CNNs shows the potential ability of CNNs in doing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-10-05 Junxuan Li

The goal of this document is to provide a pedagogical introduction to the main concepts underpinning the training of deep neural networks using gradient descent; a process known as backpropagation. Although we focus on a very influential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Laurent Boué

This paper introduces Generalized Attention Flow (GAF), a novel feature attribution method for Transformer-based models to address the limitations of current approaches. By extending Attention Flow and replacing attention weights with the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Behrooz Azarkhalili , Maxwell Libbrecht

While CNNs naturally lend themselves to densely sampled data, and sophisticated implementations are available, they lack the ability to efficiently process sparse data. In this work we introduce a suite of tools that exploit sparsity in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-13 Timo Hackel , Mikhail Usvyatsov , Silvano Galliani , Jan D. Wegner , Konrad Schindler

Accurately describing the ground state of strongly correlated systems is essential for understanding their emergent properties. Neural Network Backflow (NNBF) is a powerful variational ansatz that enhances mean-field wave functions by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-11-03 Kieran Loehr , Bryan K. Clark

Modern optical flow methods are often composed of a cascade of many independent steps or formulated as a black box neural network that is hard to interpret and analyze. In this work we seek for a plain, interpretable, but learnable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-12 Christoph Vogel , Patrick Knöbelreiter , Thomas Pock

Real-world scenarios demand reasoning about process, more than final outcome prediction, to discover latent causal chains and better understand complex systems. It requires the learning algorithms to offer both accurate predictions and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-09 Xiaoran Xu , Songpeng Zu , Chengliang Gao , Yuan Zhang , Wei Feng

Attention mechanisms underpin the computational power of Transformer models, which have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains. Yet understanding and extending the principles underlying self-attention remains a key challenge for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Cheng Kevin Qu , Andrew Ly , Pulin Gong

In this paper, we propose a convolutional layer inspired by optical flow algorithms to learn motion representations. Our representation flow layer is a fully-differentiable layer designed to capture the `flow' of any representation channel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-08-05 AJ Piergiovanni , Michael S. Ryoo

Attention mechanisms represent a fundamental paradigm shift in neural network architectures, enabling models to selectively focus on relevant portions of input sequences through learned weighting functions. This monograph provides a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hasi Hays

The performance of single image super-resolution has achieved significant improvement by utilizing deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs). The features in deep CNN contain different types of information which make different contributions…

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Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) extract spatially downsampled representations, posing challenges for pixel-level tasks. Existing upsampling approaches face a fundamental trade-off: classical filters are fast and broadly applicable but rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Loick Chambon , Paul Couairon , Eloi Zablocki , Alexandre Boulch , Nicolas Thome , Matthieu Cord

Although 3D point cloud classification neural network models have been widely used, the in-depth interpretation of the activation of the neurons and layers is still a challenge. We propose a novel approach, named Relevance Flow, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Weiquan Liu , Minghao Liu , Shijun Zheng , Cheng Wang

The deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) using attention mechanism have achieved great success for dynamic scene deblurring. In most of these networks, only the features refined by the attention maps can be passed to the next layer and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Xia Hua , Mingxin Li , Junxiong Fei , Yu Shi , JianGuo Liu , Hanyu Hong

End-to-end trained convolutional neural networks have led to a breakthrough in optical flow estimation. The most recent advances focus on improving the optical flow estimation by improving the architecture and setting a new benchmark on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-03 D. B. de Jong , F. Paredes-Vallés , G. C. H. E. de Croon

Neural processes (NPs) learn stochastic processes and predict the distribution of target output adaptively conditioned on a context set of observed input-output pairs. Furthermore, Attentive Neural Process (ANP) improved the prediction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Shenghao Qin , Jiacheng Zhu , Jimmy Qin , Wenshuo Wang , Ding Zhao