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Transformers have reached remarkable success in sequence modeling. However, these models have efficiency issues as they need to store all the history token-level representations as memory. We present Memformer, an efficient neural network…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-14 Qingyang Wu , Zhenzhong Lan , Kun Qian , Jing Gu , Alborz Geramifard , Zhou Yu

Fine-tuning a pre-trained deep neural network has become a successful paradigm in various machine learning tasks. However, such a paradigm becomes particularly challenging with tabular data when there are discrepancies between the feature…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Qi-Le Zhou , Han-Jia Ye , Le-Ye Wang , De-Chuan Zhan

Tracking entities in procedural language requires understanding the transformations arising from actions on entities as well as those entities' interactions. While self-attention-based pre-trained language encoders like GPT and BERT have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Aditya Gupta , Greg Durrett

Transformer-based sequential recommendation (TSR) models have shown superior performance in recommendation systems, where the quality of item representations plays a crucial role. Classical representation methods integrate item features…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hao Deng , Haibo Xing , Kanefumi Matsuyama , Yulei Huang , Jinxin Hu , Hong Wen , Jia Xu , Zulong Chen , Yu Zhang , Xiaoyi Zeng , Jing Zhang

Transformers have recently emerged as a powerful tool for learning visual representations. In this paper, we identify and characterize artifacts in feature maps of both supervised and self-supervised ViT networks. The artifacts correspond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Timothée Darcet , Maxime Oquab , Julien Mairal , Piotr Bojanowski

Text classification is a very common task nowadays and there are many efficient methods and algorithms that we can employ to accomplish it. Transformers have revolutionized the field of deep learning, particularly in Natural Language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Christos Petridis

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

Causal Transformers are trained to predict the next token for a given context. While it is widely accepted that self-attention is crucial for encoding the causal structure of sequences, the precise underlying mechanism behind this…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-03-04 Michael E. Sander , Gabriel Peyré

Transformers have demonstrated strong potential in offline reinforcement learning (RL) by modeling trajectories as sequences of return-to-go, states, and actions. However, existing approaches such as the Decision Transformer(DT) and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Zhuojing Tian , Yushu Chen

Modern sequential recommender systems commonly use transformer-based models for next-item prediction. While these models demonstrate a strong balance between efficiency and quality, integrating interleaving features - such as the query…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-13 Andrii Dzhoha , Alisa Mironenko , Evgeny Labzin , Vladimir Vlasov , Maarten Versteegh , Marjan Celikik

Modern large language models (LLMs) excel at tasks that require storing and retrieving knowledge, such as factual recall and question answering. Transformers are central to this capability because they can encode information during training…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2026-03-18 Nuri Mert Vural , Alberto Bietti , Mahdi Soltanolkotabi , Denny Wu

Transformers have achieved state-of-the-art performance in language modeling tasks. However, the reasons behind their tremendous success are still unclear. In this paper, towards a better understanding, we train a Transformer model on a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-06-06 Michael E. Sander , Raja Giryes , Taiji Suzuki , Mathieu Blondel , Gabriel Peyré

Transformers replace recurrence with a memory that grows with sequence length and self-attention that enables ad-hoc lookups over past tokens. Consequently, they lack an inherent incentive to compress history into compact latent states with…

Transformers have been successfully applied to sequential, auto-regressive tasks despite being feedforward networks. Unlike recurrent neural networks, Transformers use attention to capture temporal relations while processing input tokens in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-26 Angela Fan , Thibaut Lavril , Edouard Grave , Armand Joulin , Sainbayar Sukhbaatar

In recent years, large pre-trained transformers have led to substantial gains in performance over traditional retrieval models and feedback approaches. However, these results are primarily based on the MS Marco/TREC Deep Learning Track…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2022-04-18 David Rau , Jaap Kamps

Many models such as Long Short Term Memory (LSTMs), Gated Recurrent Units (GRUs) and transformers have been developed to classify time series data with the assumption that events in a sequence are ordered. On the other hand, fewer models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Stephanie Ger , Diego Klabjan , Jean Utke

Token-based transformer world models have shown strong performance in visual reinforcement learning, but often suffer from temporal inconsistency in long-horizon rollouts, including object duplication, disappearance, and transmutation. A…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Youngin Kim , Ray Sun , Inho Kim , Bumsoo Park , Hyun Oh Song

Sequence classification is essential in NLP for understanding and categorizing language patterns in tasks like sentiment analysis, intent detection, and topic classification. Transformer-based models, despite achieving state-of-the-art…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Hongbo Liu , Jia Xu

While Transformers have rapidly gained popularity in various computer vision applications, post-hoc explanations of their internal mechanisms remain largely unexplored. Vision Transformers extract visual information by representing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Junyi Wu , Bin Duan , Weitai Kang , Hao Tang , Yan Yan

We focus on the problem of learning without forgetting from multiple tasks arriving sequentially, where each task is defined using a few-shot episode of novel or already seen classes. We approach this problem using the recently published…

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