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Without positional information, attention-based Transformer neural networks are permutation-invariant. Absolute or relative positional embeddings are the most popular ways to feed Transformer models with positional information. Absolute…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Tatiana Likhomanenko , Qiantong Xu , Gabriel Synnaeve , Ronan Collobert , Alex Rogozhnikov

In many domains of empirical sciences, discovering the causal structure within variables remains an indispensable task. Recently, to tackle with unoriented edges or latent assumptions violation suffered by conventional methods, researchers…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Shixuan Liu , Yanghe Feng , Keyu Wu , Guangquan Cheng , Jincai Huang , Zhong Liu

Graph self-supervised learning seeks to learn effective graph representations without relying on labeled data. Among various approaches, graph autoencoders (GAEs) have gained significant attention for their efficiency and scalability.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Yang Liu , Deyu Bo , Wenxuan Cao , Yuan Fang , Yawen Li , Chuan Shi

Transformers are increasingly employed for graph data, demonstrating competitive performance in diverse tasks. To incorporate graph information into these models, it is essential to enhance node and edge features with positional encodings.…

Learning-based methods have become increasingly popular for solving vehicle routing problems due to their near-optimal performance and fast inference speed. Among them, the combination of deep reinforcement learning and graph representation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-22 Zhenwei Wang , Ruibin Bai , Fazlullah Khan , Ender Ozcan , Tiehua Zhang

Standard Vision Transformers flatten 2D images into 1D sequences, disrupting the natural spatial topology. While Rotary Positional Embedding (RoPE) excels in 1D, it inherits this limitation, often treating spatially distant patches (e.g.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-05 Yupu Yao , Bowen Yang

Extending the context length of Language Models (LMs) by improving Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) has become a trend. While prior works mainly address RoPE's limitations within attention, this paper uncovers the adverse effects on length…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Ermo Hua , Che Jiang , Xingtai Lv , Kaiyan Zhang , Youbang Sun , Yuchen Fan , Xuekai Zhu , Biqing Qi , Ning Ding , Bowen Zhou

Node embeddings have become an ubiquitous technique for representing graph data in a low dimensional space. Graph autoencoders, as one of the widely adapted deep models, have been proposed to learn graph embeddings in an unsupervised way by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-08-13 Vaibhav , Po-Yao Huang , Robert Frederking

Autonomous robot exploration (ARE) is the process of a robot autonomously navigating and mapping an unknown environment. Recent Reinforcement Learning (RL)-based approaches typically formulate ARE as a sequential decision-making problem…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Haozhan Ni , Jingsong Liang , Chenyu He , Yuhong Cao , Guillaume Sartoretti

Graph autoencoders (AE) and variational autoencoders (VAE) recently emerged as powerful node embedding methods. In particular, graph AE and VAE were successfully leveraged to tackle the challenging link prediction problem, aiming at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Guillaume Salha , Stratis Limnios , Romain Hennequin , Viet Anh Tran , Michalis Vazirgiannis

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in modeling sequential textual data and generalizing across diverse tasks. However, adapting LLMs to effectively handle structural data, such as knowledge graphs or web…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-12 Jiarui Feng , Donghong Cai , Yixin Chen , Muhan Zhang

Transformers have impressive generalization capabilities on tasks with a fixed context length. However, they fail to generalize to sequences of arbitrary length, even for seemingly simple tasks such as duplicating a string. Moreover, simply…

Attentional mechanisms are order-invariant. Positional encoding is a crucial component to allow attention-based deep model architectures such as Transformer to address sequences or images where the position of information matters. In this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-10 Yang Li , Si Si , Gang Li , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Samy Bengio

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

In this paper, we address the challenge of making ViT models more robust to unseen affine transformations. Such robustness becomes useful in various recognition tasks such as face recognition when image alignment failures occur. We propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Minchul Kim , Yiyang Su , Feng Liu , Anil Jain , Xiaoming Liu

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

Enabling LLMs to handle lengthy context is currently a research hotspot. Most LLMs are built upon rotary position embedding (RoPE), a popular position encoding method. Therefore, a prominent path is to extrapolate the RoPE trained on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Meizhi Zhong , Chen Zhang , Yikun Lei , Xikai Liu , Yan Gao , Yao Hu , Kehai Chen , Min Zhang

Understanding spatial location and relationships is a fundamental capability for modern artificial intelligence systems. Insights from human spatial cognition provide valuable guidance in this domain. Neuroscientific discoveries have…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2024-09-17 Boyang Li , Yulin Wu , Nuoxian Huang , Wenjia Zhang

We show that viewing graphs as sets of node features and incorporating structural and positional information into a transformer architecture is able to outperform representations learned with classical graph neural networks (GNNs). Our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Grégoire Mialon , Dexiong Chen , Margot Selosse , Julien Mairal

Text generation from Abstract Meaning Representation (AMR) has substantially benefited from the popularized Pretrained Language Models (PLMs). Myriad approaches have linearized the input graph as a sequence of tokens to fit the PLM…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Sebastien Montella , Alexis Nasr , Johannes Heinecke , Frederic Bechet , Lina M. Rojas-Barahona