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There are several improvements proposed over the baseline Absolute Positional Encoding (APE) method used in original transformer. In this study, we aim to investigate the implications of inadequately representing positional encoding in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Arpit Aggarwal

Self-attention relies on positional embeddings to encode input order. Relative Position (RelPos) embeddings are widely used in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR). However, RelPos has quadratic time complexity to input length and is often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Shucong Zhang , Titouan Parcollet , Rogier van Dalen , Sourav Bhattacharya

Transformer architecture has enabled recent progress in speech enhancement. Since Transformers are position-agostic, positional encoding is the de facto standard component used to enable Transformers to distinguish the order of elements in…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-15 Qiquan Zhang , Meng Ge , Hongxu Zhu , Eliathamby Ambikairajah , Qi Song , Zhaoheng Ni , Haizhou Li

Temporal Point Processes (TPPs), especially Hawkes Process are commonly used for modeling asynchronous event sequences data such as financial transactions and user behaviors in social networks. Due to the strong fitting ability of neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Anningzhe Gao , Shan Dai

We propose a conditional positional encoding (CPE) scheme for vision Transformers. Unlike previous fixed or learnable positional encodings, which are pre-defined and independent of input tokens, CPE is dynamically generated and conditioned…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Xiangxiang Chu , Zhi Tian , Bo Zhang , Xinlong Wang , Chunhua Shen

Camera-conditioned video generation requires positional encoding that remains reliable under changes in camera motion, lens configuration, and scene structure. However, existing attention-level camera encodings either provide ray-only…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Seonghyun Jin , Youngmin Kim , Sunwoo Park , Jong Chul Ye

Positional embeddings (PE) play a crucial role in Vision Transformers (ViTs) by providing spatial information otherwise lost due to the permutation invariant nature of self attention. While absolute positional embeddings (APE) have shown…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Md Abtahi Majeed Chowdhury , Md Rifat Ur Rahman , Akil Ahmad Taki

Vision transformers have demonstrated significant advantages in computer vision tasks due to their ability to capture long-range dependencies and contextual relationships through self-attention. However, existing position encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-15 Xi Chen , Shiyang Zhou , Muqi Huang , Jiaxu Feng , Yun Xiong , Kun Zhou , Biao Yang , Yuhui Zhang , Huishuai Bao , Sijia Peng , Chuan Li , Feng Shi

Recent diffusion-based image editing methods commonly rely on text or high-level instructions to guide the generation process, offering intuitive but coarse control. In contrast, we focus on explicit, prompt-free editing, where the user…

Graphics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Etai Sella , Yoav Baron , Hadar Averbuch-Elor , Daniel Cohen-Or , Or Patashnik

While music remains a challenging domain for generative models like Transformers, a two-pronged approach has recently proved successful: inserting musically-relevant structural information into the positional encoding (PE) module and using…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-04-09 Manvi Agarwal , Changhong Wang , Gael Richard

Rotary Positional Embeddings (RoPE) have become the standard for Large Language Models (LLMs) due to their ability to encode relative positions through geometric rotation. However, we identify a significant limitation we term ''Spectral…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Kanishk Awadhiya

Generative recommenders, typically transformer-based autoregressive models, predict the next item or action from a user's interaction history. Their effectiveness depends on how the model represents where an interaction event occurs in the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Xiaokai Wei , Jiajun Wu , Daiyao Yi , Reza Shirkavand , Michelle Gong

Transformers exhibit proficiency in capturing long-range dependencies, whereas State Space Models (SSMs) facilitate linear-time sequence modeling. Notwithstanding their synergistic potential, the integration of these architectures presents…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-19 Bingheng Wu , Jingze Shi , Yifan Wu , Nan Tang , Yuyu Luo

This paper introduces a novel approach to position embeddings in transformer models, named "Exact Positional Embeddings" (ExPE). An absolute positional embedding method that can extrapolate to sequences of lengths longer than the ones it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Aleksis Datseris , Sylvia Vassileva , Ivan Koychev , Svetla Boytcheva

Inspired by the Bloch Sphere representation, we propose a novel rotary position encoding on a three-dimensional sphere, named 3D Rotary Position Encoding (3D-RPE). 3D-RPE is an advanced version of the widely used 2D Rotary Position Encoding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Xindian Ma , Wenyuan Liu , Peng Zhang , Nan Xu

Predictive world models that simulate future observations under explicit camera control are fundamental to interactive AI. Despite rapid advances, current systems lack spatial persistence: they fail to maintain stable scene structures over…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Chendong Xiang , Jiajun Liu , Jintao Zhang , Xiao Yang , Zhengwei Fang , Shizun Wang , Zijun Wang , Yingtian Zou , Hang Su , Jun Zhu

3D Large Vision-Language Models (3D LVLMs) built upon Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable progress across various multimodal tasks. However, their inherited position-dependent modeling mechanism, Rotary Position Embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Guanting Ye , Qiyan Zhao , Wenhao Yu , Liangyu Yuan , Mingkai Li , Xiaofeng Zhang , Jianmin Ji , Yanyong Zhang , Qing Jiang , Ka-Veng Yuen

Transformers are increasingly prevalent for multi-view computer vision tasks, where geometric relationships between viewpoints are critical for 3D perception. To leverage these relationships, multi-view transformers must use camera geometry…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Ruilong Li , Brent Yi , Junchen Liu , Hang Gao , Yi Ma , Angjoo Kanazawa

Rapid aerodynamic evaluation is crucial for modern vehicle design, yet existing neural operators struggle to capture intricate spatial correlations. We propose the rotary-enhanced transformer operator (RETO), a novel neural solver featuring…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-05-08 Bojun Zhang , Huiyu Yang , Yunpeng Wang , Yuntian Chen , Yuanwei Bin , Rikui Zhang , Jianchun Wang

Transformers often struggle to generalize to longer sequences than those seen during training, a limitation known as length extrapolation. Most existing Relative Positional Encoding (RPE) methods attempt to address this by introducing…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Ali Veisi , Hamidreza Amirzadeh , Amir Mansourian