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Real-world fine manipulation, particularly in bimanual manipulation, typically requires low-latency control and stable visual localization, while collecting large-scale data is costly and limited demonstrations may lead to localization…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-04 Xianbo Cai , Hideyuki Ichiwara , Masaki Yoshikawa , Tetsuya Ogata

Medical image analysis continues to hold interesting challenges given the subtle characteristics of certain diseases and the significant overlap in appearance between diseases. In this work, we explore the concept of self-attention for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-10-13 Hossein Aboutalebi , Maya Pavlova , Hayden Gunraj , Mohammad Javad Shafiee , Ali Sabri , Amer Alaref , Alexander Wong

Scaling Transformers to ultra-long contexts is bottlenecked by the $O(n^2 d)$ cost of self-attention. Existing methods reduce this cost along the sequence axis through local windows, kernel approximations, or token-level sparsity, but these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Yan Xie , Tiansheng Wen , Tangda Huang , Bo Chen , Chenyu You , Stefanie Jegelka , Yifei Wang

While Transformer networks benefit from a global receptive field, their quadratic cost relative to sequence length restricts their application to long sequences and high-resolution inputs. We introduce Fast Multipole Attention (FMA), a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yanming Kang , Giang Tran , Hans De Sterck

Transformers have recently gained significant attention in the computer vision community. However, the lack of scalability of self-attention mechanisms with respect to image size has limited their wide adoption in state-of-the-art vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Zhengzhong Tu , Hossein Talebi , Han Zhang , Feng Yang , Peyman Milanfar , Alan Bovik , Yinxiao Li

In most recent years, deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs) based image super-resolution (SR) has gained increasing attention in multimedia and computer vision communities, focusing on restoring the high-resolution (HR) image from a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-15 Jingcai Guo , Shiheng Ma , Song Guo

Human face images usually appear with wide range of visual scales. The existing face representations pursue the bandwidth of handling scale variation via multi-scale scheme that assembles a finite series of predefined scales. Such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Hailin Shi , Hang Du , Yibo Hu , Jun Wang , Dan Zeng , Ting Yao

Despite significant advancements in salient object detection(SOD) in optical remote sensing images(ORSI), challenges persist due to the intricate edge structures of ORSIs and the complexity of their contextual relationships. Current deep…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Yakun Xie , Suning Liu , Hongyu Chen , Shaohan Cao , Huixin Zhang , Dejun Feng , Qian Wan , Jun Zhu , Qing Zhu

The Transformer architecture has significantly advanced deep learning, particularly in natural language processing, by effectively managing long-range dependencies. However, as the demand for understanding complex relationships grows,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Qinglin Zhang , Siqi Zheng , Shiliang Zhang , Chong Deng , Hai Yu , Jiaqing Liu , Yukun Ma , Chong Zhang

Transformers have achieved success in both language and vision domains. However, it is prohibitively expensive to scale them to long sequences such as long documents or high-resolution images, because self-attention mechanism has quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Chen Zhu , Wei Ping , Chaowei Xiao , Mohammad Shoeybi , Tom Goldstein , Anima Anandkumar , Bryan Catanzaro

Single image super-resolution is a well-known downstream task which aims to restore low-resolution images into high-resolution images. At present, models based on Transformers have shone brightly in the field of super-resolution due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Jianfeng Wu , Nannan Xu

Transformer models are computationally costly on long sequences since regular attention has quadratic $O(n^2)$ time complexity. We introduce Wavelet-Enhanced Random Spectral Attention (WERSA), a novel mechanism of linear $O(n)$ time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Vincenzo Dentamaro

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) often suffer from poor performance when tested on target data that differs from the training (source) data distribution, particularly in medical imaging applications where variations in imaging protocols…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Jingjie Guo , Weitong Zhang , Matthew Sinclair , Daniel Rueckert , Chen Chen

Long-context modeling is crucial for next-generation language models, yet the high computational cost of standard attention mechanisms poses significant computational challenges. Sparse attention offers a promising direction for improving…

Recently, transformers have captured significant interest in the area of single-image super-resolution tasks, demonstrating substantial gains in performance. Current models heavily depend on the network's extensive ability to extract…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-20 Alik Pramanick , Utsav Bheda , Arijit Sur

The quadratic computational complexity of MultiHead SelfAttention (MHSA) remains a fundamental bottleneck in scaling Large Language Models (LLMs) for longcontext tasks. While sparse and linearized attention mechanisms attempt to mitigate…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Caner Erden

We introduce AdaptiSent, a new framework for Multimodal Aspect-Based Sentiment Analysis (MABSA) that uses adaptive cross-modal attention mechanisms to improve sentiment classification and aspect term extraction from both text and images.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-18 S M Rafiuddin , Sadia Kamal , Mohammed Rakib , Arunkumar Bagavathi , Atriya Sen

Transformer-based architectures have advanced text summarization, yet their quadratic complexity limits scalability on long documents. This paper introduces BiSparse-AAS (Bilinear Sparse Attention with Adaptive Spans), a novel framework…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Desta Haileselassie Hagos , Legand L. Burge , Anietie Andy , Anis Yazidi , Vladimir Vlassov

Image alignment, also known as image registration, is a critical block used in many computer vision problems. One of the key factors in alignment is efficiency, as inefficient aligners can cause significant overhead to the overall problem.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Bahri Batuhan Bilecen , Alparslan Fisne , Mustafa Ayazoglu

Large-scale LiDAR mappings and localization leverage place recognition techniques to mitigate odometry drifts, ensuring accurate mapping. These techniques utilize scene representations from LiDAR point clouds to identify previously visited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-31 Raktim Gautam Goswami , Naman Patel , Prashanth Krishnamurthy , Farshad Khorrami