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While self-attention has been instrumental in the success of Transformers, it can lead to over-concentration on a few tokens during training, resulting in suboptimal information flow. Enforcing doubly-stochastic constraints in attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ashkan Shahbazi , Elaheh Akbari , Darian Salehi , Xinran Liu , Navid Naderializadeh , Soheil Kolouri

Transformers have emerged as the architecture of choice for many state-of-the-art AI models, showcasing exceptional performance across a wide range of AI applications. However, the memory demands imposed by Transformers limit their ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Hao Liu , Matei Zaharia , Pieter Abbeel

Large pretrained self-attention neural networks, or transformers, have been very successful in various tasks recently. The performance of a model on a given task depends on its ability to memorize and generalize the training data. Large…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-01 Aki Härmä , Marcin Pietrasik , Anna Wilbik

Transformers are groundbreaking architectures that have changed a flow of deep learning, and many high-performance models are developing based on transformer architectures. Transformers implemented only with attention with encoder-decoder…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-12-20 Young-Eun Lee , Seo-Hyun Lee

We describe a family of architectures to support transductive inference by allowing memory to grow to a finite but a-priori unknown bound while making efficient use of finite resources for inference. Current architectures use such resources…

Enabled by multi-head self-attention, Transformer has exhibited remarkable results in speech emotion recognition (SER). Compared to the original full attention mechanism, window-based attention is more effective in learning fine-grained…

Sound · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Weidong Chen , Xiaofen Xing , Xiangmin Xu , Jianxin Pang , Lan Du

Identifying words that impact a task's performance more than others is a challenge in natural language processing. Transformers models have recently addressed this issue by incorporating an attention mechanism that assigns greater attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Neşet Özkan Tan , Alex Yuxuan Peng , Joshua Bensemann , Qiming Bao , Tim Hartill , Mark Gahegan , Michael Witbrock

We propose a technique for learning representations of parser states in transition-based dependency parsers. Our primary innovation is a new control structure for sequence-to-sequence neural networks---the stack LSTM. Like the conventional…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-01 Chris Dyer , Miguel Ballesteros , Wang Ling , Austin Matthews , Noah A. Smith

While linear attention architectures offer efficient inference, compressing unbounded history into a fixed-size memory inherently limits expressivity and causes information loss. To address this limitation, we introduce Random Access Memory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Kaicheng Xiao , Haotian Li , Liran Dong , Guoliang Xing

This article introduces a robust hybrid method for solving supervised learning tasks, which uses the Echo State Network (ESN) model and the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm. An ESN is a Recurrent Neural Network with the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2015-01-05 Sebastián Basterrech , Enrique Alba , Václav Snášel

Memory retention challenges in deep neural architectures have ongoing limitations in the ability to process and recall extended contextual information. Token dependencies degrade as sequence length increases, leading to a decline in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Frederick Dillon , Gregor Halvorsen , Simon Tattershall , Magnus Rowntree , Gareth Vanderpool

Large reasoning models (LRMs) achieve state-of-the-art performance by generating long chains-of-thought, but often waste computation on redundant reasoning after the correct answer has already been reached. We introduce Early-Stopping for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Junda Wang , Zhichao Yang , Dongxu Zhang , Sanjit Singh Batra , Robert E. Tillman

Transformer-based models show their effectiveness across multiple domains and tasks. The self-attention allows to combine information from all sequence elements into context-aware representations. However, global and local information has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Aydar Bulatov , Yuri Kuratov , Mikhail S. Burtsev

Recurrent neural networks are effective models to process sequences. However, they are unable to learn long-term dependencies because of their inherent sequential nature. As a solution, Vaswani et al. introduced the Transformer, a model…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Quentin Fournier , Gaétan Marceau Caron , Daniel Aloise

Memory-augmented neural networks equip a recurrent neural network with an explicit memory to support tasks that require information storage without interference over long times. A key motivation for such research is to perform classic…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Benjamin Paaßen , Alexander Schulz , Barbara Hammer

EEG-based seizure detection models face challenges in terms of inference speed and memory efficiency, limiting their real-time implementation in clinical devices. This paper introduces a novel graph-based residual state update mechanism…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-26 Arshia Afzal , Grigorios Chrysos , Volkan Cevher , Mahsa Shoaran

Deep neural networks, especially transformer-based architectures, have achieved remarkable success in semantic segmentation for environmental perception. However, existing models process video frames independently, thus failing to leverage…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Serin Varghese , Kevin Ross , Fabian Hueger , Kira Maag

Transformers have dominated sequence processing tasks for the past seven years -- most notably language modeling. However, the inherent quadratic complexity of their attention mechanism remains a significant bottleneck as context length…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Alexander M. Fichtl , Jeremias Bohn , Josefin Kelber , Edoardo Mosca , Georg Groh

Transformer-based models have achieved remarkable success in multivariate time series forecasting (MTSF) by capturing long-range dependencies. However, their widespread adoption is hindered by the quadratic computational complexity of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Fanpu Cao , Shu Yang , Zhengjian Chen , Ye Liu , Laizhong Cui

Entropy estimation is essential for the performance of learned image compression. It has been demonstrated that a transformer-based entropy model is of critical importance for achieving a high compression ratio, however, at the expense of a…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-28 A. Burakhan Koyuncu , Panqi Jia , Atanas Boev , Elena Alshina , Eckehard Steinbach