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Large Transformer models routinely achieve state-of-the-art results on a number of tasks but training these models can be prohibitively costly, especially on long sequences. We introduce two techniques to improve the efficiency of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Nikita Kitaev , Łukasz Kaiser , Anselm Levskaya

Recent studies have shown the importance of modeling long-range interactions in the inpainting problem. To achieve this goal, existing approaches exploit either standalone attention techniques or transformers, but usually under a low…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Wenbo Li , Zhe Lin , Kun Zhou , Lu Qi , Yi Wang , Jiaya Jia

Medical image segmentation is a critical task that plays a vital role in diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Accurate segmentation of anatomical structures and abnormalities from medical images can aid in the early…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-14 Reza Azad , Amirhossein Kazerouni , Alaa Sulaiman , Afshin Bozorgpour , Ehsan Khodapanah Aghdam , Abin Jose , Dorit Merhof

Recently, deep-learning-based approaches have been widely studied for deformable image registration task. However, most efforts directly map the composite image representation to spatial transformation through the convolutional neural…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-07-08 Jiashun Chen , Donghuan Lu , Yu Zhang , Dong Wei , Munan Ning , Xinyu Shi , Zhe Xu , Yefeng Zheng

Learning feature interaction is the critical backbone to building recommender systems. In web-scale applications, learning feature interaction is extremely challenging due to the sparse and large input feature space; meanwhile, manually…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Huan Gui , Ruoxi Wang , Ke Yin , Long Jin , Maciej Kula , Taibai Xu , Lichan Hong , Ed H. Chi

Transformer models have achieved state-of-the-art results across a diverse range of domains. However, concern over the cost of training the attention mechanism to learn complex dependencies between distant inputs continues to grow. In…

Transformer architectures are typically described in algorithmic and statistical terms, leaving their internal mechanics without a familiar structural language for researchers trained in physical theories. To bridge this gap, we develop a…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2026-03-18 Po-Hao Chang

Recently, deep learning methods have been widely used for tumor segmentation of multimodal medical images with promising results. However, most existing methods are limited by insufficient representational ability, specific modality number…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Jun Shi , Hongyu Kan , Shulan Ruan , Ziqi Zhu , Minfan Zhao , Liang Qiao , Zhaohui Wang , Hong An , Xudong Xue

The self-attention mechanism, a cornerstone of Transformer-based state-of-the-art deep learning architectures, is largely heuristic-driven and fundamentally challenging to interpret. Establishing a robust theoretical foundation to explain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Laziz U. Abdullaev , Maksim Tkachenko , Tan M. Nguyen

Transformer models rely on self-attention to capture token dependencies but face challenges in effectively integrating positional information while allowing multi-head attention (MHA) flexibility. Prior methods often model semantic and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Jintian Shao , Hongyi Huang , Jiayi Wu , Beiwen Zhang , ZhiYu Wu , You Shan , MingKai Zheng

This research endeavors to offer insights into unlocking the further potential of transformer-based architectures. One of the primary motivations is to offer a geometric interpretation for the attention mechanism in transformers. In our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Zhongping Ji

In order to reduce the computational complexity of large language models, great efforts have been made to to improve the efficiency of transformer models such as linear attention and flash-attention. However, the model size and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Ning Ding , Yehui Tang , Haochen Qin , Zhenli Zhou , Chao Xu , Lin Li , Kai Han , Heng Liao , Yunhe Wang

Deep learning-based medical image segmentation and surface mesh generation typically involve a sequential pipeline from image to segmentation to meshes, often requiring large training datasets while making limited use of prior geometric…

Our work combines aspects of three promising paradigms in machine learning, namely, attention mechanism, energy-based models, and associative memory. Attention is the power-house driving modern deep learning successes, but it lacks clear…

This paper proposes a learning-based framework for reconstructing 3D shapes from functional operators, compactly encoded as small-sized matrices. To this end we introduce a novel neural architecture, called OperatorNet, which takes as input…

Graphics · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Ruqi Huang , Marie-Julie Rakotosaona , Panos Achlioptas , Leonidas Guibas , Maks Ovsjanikov

Obtaining sparse, interpretable representations of observable data is crucial in many machine learning and signal processing tasks. For data representing flows along the edges of a graph, an intuitively interpretable way to obtain such…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Josef Hoppe , Michael T. Schaub

Transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance in skeleton-based human action recognition, yet their quadratic computational complexity remains a bottleneck for real-world applications. To mitigate this, linear attention mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Yue Li , Haoxuan Qu , Mengyuan Liu , Jun Liu , Yujun Cai

We introduce a novel framework that directly learns a spectral basis for shape and manifold analysis from unstructured data, eliminating the need for traditional operator selection, discretization, and eigensolvers. Grounded in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Roy Velich , Arkadi Piven , David Bensaïd , Daniel Cremers , Thomas Dagès , Ron Kimmel

Group equivariant neural networks are used as building blocks of group invariant neural networks, which have been shown to improve generalisation performance and data efficiency through principled parameter sharing. Such works have mostly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-17 Michael Hutchinson , Charline Le Lan , Sheheryar Zaidi , Emilien Dupont , Yee Whye Teh , Hyunjik Kim

Temporal convolutions have been the paradigm of choice in action segmentation, which enhances long-term receptive fields by increasing convolution layers. However, high layers cause the loss of local information necessary for frame…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Jiahui Wang , Zhenyou Wang , Shanna Zhuang , Hui Wang