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Deep learning-based medical image segmentation technology aims at automatic recognizing and annotating objects on the medical image. Non-local attention and feature learning by multi-scale methods are widely used to model network, which…

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While transformers have begun to dominate many tasks in vision, applying them to large images is still computationally difficult. A large reason for this is that self-attention scales quadratically with the number of tokens, which in turn,…

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The quadratic computational complexity of standard attention mechanisms presents a severe scalability bottleneck for LLMs in long-context scenarios. While hybrid attention mechanisms combining Full Attention (FA) and Sparse Attention (SA)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Quantong Qiu , Zhiyi Hong , Yi Yang , Haitian Wang , Kebin Liu , Qingqing Dang , Juntao Li , Min Zhang

Medical image segmentation has seen significant improvements with transformer models, which excel in grasping far-reaching contexts and global contextual information. However, the increasing computational demands of these models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-04 Reza Azad , Leon Niggemeier , Michael Huttemann , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Yury Velichko , Ulas Bagci , Dorit Merhof

Models such as VGGT and $\pi^3$ have shown strong multi-view 3D performance, but their heavy reliance on global self-attention results in high computational cost. Existing sparse-attention variants offer partial speedups, yet lack a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xianbing Sun , Zhikai Zhu , Zhengyu Lou , Bo Yang , Jinyang Tang , Liqing Zhang , He Wang , Jianfu Zhang

Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) models have become the state-of-the-art for most computer vision tasks with natural images. However, these are not best suited for multi-gigapixel resolution Whole Slide Images (WSIs) of histology slides…

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In the framework of learned image compression, the context model plays a pivotal role in capturing the dependencies among latent representations. To reduce the decoding time resulting from the serial autoregressive context model, the…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-12-01 Yang Sui , Ding Ding , Xiang Pan , Xiaozhong Xu , Shan Liu , Bo Yuan , Zhenzhong Chen

Hyperspectral image (HSI) classification faces critical challenges, including high spectral dimensionality, complex spectral-spatial correlations, and limited training samples with severe class imbalance. While CNNs excel at local feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Asmit Bandyopadhyay , Anindita Das Bhattacharjee , Rakesh Das

Currently, convolutional neural networks (CNN) (e.g., U-Net) have become the de facto standard and attained immense success in medical image segmentation. However, as a downside, CNN based methods are a double-edged sword as they fail to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-04-01 Reza Azad , Moein Heidari , Yuli Wu , Dorit Merhof

MLLMs require high-resolution visual inputs for fine-grained tasks like document understanding and dense scene perception. However, current global resolution scaling paradigms indiscriminately flood the quadratic self-attention mechanism…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Yuheng Shi , Xiaohuan Pei , Linfeng Wen , Minjing Dong , Chang Xu

In-context learning (ICL) capabilities are foundational to the success of large language models (LLMs). Recently, context compression has attracted growing interest since it can largely reduce reasoning complexities and computation costs of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-02 Wenshan Wang , Yihang Wang , Yixing Fan , Huaming Liao , Jiafeng Guo

The multi-scale information among the whole slide images (WSIs) is essential for cancer diagnosis. Although the existing multi-scale vision Transformer has shown its effectiveness for learning multi-scale image representation, it still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-26 Saisai Ding , Juncheng Li , Jun Wang , Shihui Ying , Jun Shi

While large language models (LLMs) excel in generating coherent and contextually rich outputs, their capacity to efficiently handle long-form contexts is limited by fixed-length position embeddings. Additionally, the computational cost of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Sumin An , Junyoung Sung , Wonpyo Park , Chanjun Park , Paul Hongsuck Seo

We present a novel non attention based architecture for large language models (LLMs) that efficiently handles very long context windows, on the order of hundreds of thousands to potentially millions of tokens. Unlike traditional Transformer…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Andrew Kiruluta , Preethi Raju , Priscilla Burity

Modeling long-range dependencies in sequential data remains a central challenge in machine learning. Transformers address this challenge through attention mechanisms, but their quadratic complexity with respect to sequence length limits…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Hoang-Quan Nguyen , Sankalp Pandey , Khoa Luu

Deep convolutional neural networks have achieved competitive performance in salient object detection, in which how to learn effective and comprehensive features plays a critical role. Most of the previous works mainly adopted multiple level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zuyao Chen , Qianqian Xu , Runmin Cong , Qingming Huang

Self-Attention Mechanism (SAM) is good at capturing the internal connections of features and greatly improves the performance of machine learning models, espeacially requiring efficient characterization and feature extraction of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2023-08-08 Jinjing Shi , Ren-Xin Zhao , Wenxuan Wang , Shichao Zhang , Xuelong Li

Recent Transformer-based diffusion models have shown remarkable performance, largely attributed to the ability of the self-attention mechanism to accurately capture both global and local contexts by computing all-pair interactions among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-20 Yunxiang Fu , Chaoqi Chen , Yizhou Yu

Existing point-cloud based 3D object detectors use convolution-like operators to process information in a local neighbourhood with fixed-weight kernels and aggregate global context hierarchically. However, non-local neural networks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Prarthana Bhattacharyya , Chengjie Huang , Krzysztof Czarnecki

The accuracy of deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) generally improves when fueled with high resolution images. However, this often comes at a high computational cost and high memory footprint. Inspired by the fact that not all…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Yulin Wang , Kangchen Lv , Rui Huang , Shiji Song , Le Yang , Gao Huang