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Large models based on the Transformer architecture are susceptible to extreme-token phenomena, such as attention sinks and value-state drains. These issues, which degrade model performance, quantization fidelity, and interpretability, arise…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Rui Bu , Haofeng Zhong , Wenzheng Chen , Yangyan Li

Traditional three-dimensional magnetotelluric (MT) numerical forward modeling methods, such as the finite element method (FEM) and finite volume method (FVM), suffer from high computational costs and low efficiency due to limitations in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Xin Zhong , Weiwei Ling , Kejia Pan , Pinxia Wu , Jiajing Zhang , Zhiliang Zhan , Wenbo Xiao

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success by extending traditional convolution to learning on non-Euclidean data. The key to the GNNs is adopting the neural message-passing paradigm with two stages: aggregation and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-02-15 Yifei Zhang , Hao Zhu , Ziqiao Meng , Piotr Koniusz , Irwin King

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have become essential for learning from graph-structured data. However, existing GNNs do not consider the conservation law inherent in graphs associated with a flow of physical resources, such as electrical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Pascal Plettenberg , Dominik Köhler , Bernhard Sick , Josephine M. Thomas

Transformers with linear recurrent modeling offer linear-time training and constant-memory inference. Despite their demonstrated efficiency and performance, pretraining such non-standard architectures from scratch remains costly and risky.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-08 Disen Lan , Weigao Sun , Jiaxi Hu , Jusen Du , Yu Cheng

The Transformer architecture has revolutionized deep learning through its Self-Attention mechanism, which effectively captures contextual information. However, the memory footprint of Self-Attention presents significant challenges for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Zohaib Khan , Muhammad Khaquan , Omer Tafveez , Burhanuddin Samiwala , Agha Ali Raza

Non-linear operations such as GELU, Layer normalization, and Softmax are essential yet costly building blocks of Transformer models. Several prior works simplified these operations with look-up tables or integer computations, but such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Joonsang Yu , Junki Park , Seongmin Park , Minsoo Kim , Sihwa Lee , Dong Hyun Lee , Jungwook Choi

Transformers are considered one of the most important deep learning models since 2018, in part because it establishes state-of-the-art (SOTA) records and could potentially replace existing Deep Neural Networks (DNNs). Despite the remarkable…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Hongwu Peng , Shaoyi Huang , Shiyang Chen , Bingbing Li , Tong Geng , Ang Li , Weiwen Jiang , Wujie Wen , Jinbo Bi , Hang Liu , Caiwen Ding

We introduced a {\it working memory} augmented adaptive controller in our recent work. The controller uses attention to read from and write to the working memory. Attention allows the controller to read specific information that is relevant…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-03-23 Deepan Muthirayan , Scott Nivison , Pramod P. Khargonekar

Activation functions play a critical role in deep neural networks by shaping gradient flow, optimization stability, and generalization. While ReLU remains widely used due to its simplicity, it suffers from gradient sparsity and dead-neuron…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Ashkan Shakarami , Yousef Yeganeh , Azade Farshad , Lorenzo Nicolè , Stefano Ghidoni , Nassir Navab

Attention is the cornerstone of modern Large Language Models (LLMs). Yet its quadratic complexity hinders efficiency and scalability, especially for long-context processing. A promising approach is to leverage sparsity in attention.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Yizhao Gao , Zhichen Zeng , Dayou Du , Shijie Cao , Peiyuan Zhou , Jiaxing Qi , Junjie Lai , Hayden Kwok-Hay So , Ting Cao , Fan Yang , Mao Yang

Speech recognition is largely taking advantage of deep learning, showing that substantial benefits can be obtained by modern Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs). The most popular RNNs are Long Short-Term Memory (LSTMs), which typically reach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-10-03 Mirco Ravanelli , Philemon Brakel , Maurizio Omologo , Yoshua Bengio

Neighborhood attention reduces the cost of self attention by restricting each token's attention span to its nearest neighbors. This restriction, parameterized by a window size and dilation factor, draws a spectrum of possible attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Ali Hassani , Wen-Mei Hwu , Humphrey Shi

Exploiting the power of pre-trained models, prompt-based approaches stand out compared to other continual learning solutions in effectively preventing catastrophic forgetting, even with very few learnable parameters and without the need for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Minh Le , An Nguyen , Huy Nguyen , Trang Nguyen , Trang Pham , Linh Van Ngo , Nhat Ho

Self-attention is often viewed as probabilistic query-key lookup, motivating designs that preserve normalized attention scores and fixed positional semantics. We advocate a simpler and more unified perspective: an autoregressive attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jiecheng Lu , Shihao Yang

Convolutional neural networks have allowed remarkable advances in single image super-resolution (SISR) over the last decade. Among recent advances in SISR, attention mechanisms are crucial for high-performance SR models. However, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-09 Haoyu Chen , Jinjin Gu , Zhi Zhang

We present a novel recurrent neural network (RNN) based model that combines the remembering ability of unitary RNNs with the ability of gated RNNs to effectively forget redundant/irrelevant information in its memory. We achieve this by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-10-26 Li Jing , Caglar Gulcehre , John Peurifoy , Yichen Shen , Max Tegmark , Marin Soljačić , Yoshua Bengio

Graph neural networks (GNNs) aim to learn well-trained representations in a lower-dimension space for downstream tasks while preserving the topological structures. In recent years, attention mechanism, which is brilliant in the fields of…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Chengcheng Sun , Chenhao Li , Xiang Lin , Tianji Zheng , Fanrong Meng , Xiaobin Rui , Zhixiao Wang

Transformer-based models have brought a radical change to neural machine translation. A key feature of the Transformer architecture is the so-called multi-head attention mechanism, which allows the model to focus simultaneously on different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-06 Alessandro Raganato , Yves Scherrer , Jörg Tiedemann

This paper addresses the challenges of fault prediction and delayed response in distributed systems by proposing an intelligent prediction method based on temporal feature learning. The method takes multi-dimensional performance metric…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yang Wang , Wenxuan Zhu , Xuehui Quan , Heyi Wang , Chang Liu , Qiyuan Wu