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Spiking Neural Networks have attracted significant attention in recent years due to their distinctive low-power characteristics. Meanwhile, Transformer models, known for their powerful self-attention mechanisms and parallel processing…

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Modelling long-range dependencies is critical for scene understanding tasks in computer vision. Although convolution neural networks (CNNs) have excelled in many vision tasks, they are still limited in capturing long-range structured…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are the dominant architecture for molecular machine learning, particularly for molecular property prediction and machine learning interatomic potentials (MLIPs). GNNs perform message passing on predefined graphs…

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Transformers have emerged as viable alternatives to convolutional neural networks owing to their ability to learn non-local region relationships in the spatial domain. The self-attention mechanism of the transformer enables transformers to…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-09 Rahul G. S. , Sriprabha Ramnarayanan , Mohammad Al Fahim , Keerthi Ram , Preejith S. P , Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam

Transformers have revolutionized deep learning in numerous fields, including natural language processing, computer vision, and audio processing. Their strength lies in their attention mechanism, which allows for the discovering of complex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Uladzislau Yorsh , Martin Holeňa , Ondřej Bojar , David Herel

In recent years deep learning algorithms have shown extremely high performance on machine learning tasks such as image classification and speech recognition. In support of such applications, various FPGA accelerator architectures have been…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-05-09 Xinyu Zhang , Srinjoy Das , Ojash Neopane , Ken Kreutz-Delgado

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Transformers share significant similarities in their encoding strategies for interacting with features from nodes of interest, where Transformers use query-key scores and GNNs use edges. Compared to GNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Jiaxin Qi , Yan Cui , Jinli Ou , Jianqiang Huang , Gaogang Xie

Recently, Transformer-based architecture has been introduced into single image deraining task due to its advantage in modeling non-local information. However, existing approaches tend to integrate global features based on a dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Zhentao Fan , Hongming Chen , Yufeng Li

Convolution and self-attention are acting as two fundamental building blocks in deep neural networks, where the former extracts local image features in a linear way while the latter non-locally encodes high-order contextual relationships.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Xuanhong Chen , Hang Wang , Bingbing Ni

Graph Transformers (GTs) have significantly advanced the field of graph representation learning by overcoming the limitations of message-passing graph neural networks (GNNs) and demonstrating promising performance and expressive power.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Wenhao Zhu , Guojie Song , Liang Wang , Shaoguo Liu

Deep learning employs multi-layer neural networks trained via the backpropagation algorithm. This approach has achieved success across many domains and relies on adaptive gradient methods such as the Adam optimizer. Sequence modeling…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Esmail Gumaan

Attention mechanisms have become a cornerstone in modern neural networks, driving breakthroughs across diverse domains. However, their application to graph structured data, where capturing topological connections is essential, remains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Xuanting Xie , Bingheng Li , Erlin Pan , Rui Hou , Wenyu Chen , Zhao Kang

The emerging graph Transformers have achieved impressive performance for graph representation learning over graph neural networks (GNNs). In this work, we regard the self-attention mechanism, the core module of graph Transformers, as a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Jinsong Chen , Gaichao Li , John E. Hopcroft , Kun He

Benefiting from powerful convolutional neural networks (CNNs), learning-based image inpainting methods have made significant breakthroughs over the years. However, some nature of CNNs (e.g. local prior, spatially shared parameters) limit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-22 Ye Deng , Siqi Hui , Sanping Zhou , Deyu Meng , Jinjun Wang

Spectral Graph Convolutional Networks (spectral GCNNs), a powerful tool for analyzing and processing graph data, typically apply frequency filtering via Fourier transform to obtain representations with selective information. Although…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Lequan Lin , Junbin Gao

Vision transformers have become popular as a possible substitute to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for a variety of computer vision applications. These transformers, with their ability to focus on global relationships in images, offer…

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Due to the highly parallelizable architecture, Transformer is faster to train than RNN-based models and popularly used in machine translation tasks. However, at inference time, each output word requires all the hidden states of the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-06 Chengyi Wang , Shuangzhi Wu , Shujie Liu

This paper systematically explores neural functional networks (NFN) for transformer architectures. NFN are specialized neural networks that treat the weights, gradients, or sparsity patterns of a deep neural network (DNN) as input data and…

Overparameterized networks trained to convergence have shown impressive performance in domains such as computer vision and natural language processing. Pushing state of the art on salient tasks within these domains corresponds to these…

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