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Transformers have been successful in many vision tasks, thanks to their capability of capturing long-range dependency. However, their quadratic computational complexity poses a major obstacle for applying them to vision tasks requiring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-25 Shitao Tang , Jiahui Zhang , Siyu Zhu , Ping Tan

We propose the Multi-Head Density Adaptive Attention Mechanism (DAAM), a novel probabilistic attention framework that can be used for Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning (PEFT), and the Density Adaptive Transformer (DAT), designed to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Georgios Ioannides , Aman Chadha , Aaron Elkins

Multi-view action recognition (MVAR) leverages complementary temporal information from different views to improve the learning performance. Obtaining informative view-specific representation plays an essential role in MVAR. Attention has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-30 Yue Bai , Zhiqiang Tao , Lichen Wang , Sheng Li , Yu Yin , Yun Fu

Vision transformers have shown great success due to their high model capabilities. However, their remarkable performance is accompanied by heavy computation costs, which makes them unsuitable for real-time applications. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Xinyu Liu , Houwen Peng , Ningxin Zheng , Yuqing Yang , Han Hu , Yixuan Yuan

Segment Anything Model (SAM) has garnered significant attention in segmentation tasks due to their zero-shot generalization ability. However, a broader application of SAMs to real-world practice has been restricted by their low inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yanfei Song , Bangzheng Pu , Peng Wang , Hongxu Jiang , Dong Dong , Yongxiang Cao , Yiqing Shen

This paper introduces a Transformer-based integrative feature and cost aggregation network designed for dense matching tasks. In the context of dense matching, many works benefit from one of two forms of aggregation: feature aggregation,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Sunghwan Hong , Seokju Cho , Seungryong Kim , Stephen Lin

Multi-task indoor scene understanding is widely considered as an intriguing formulation, as the affinity of different tasks may lead to improved performance. In this paper, we tackle the new problem of joint semantic, affordance and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Xiaoxue Chen , Tianyu Liu , Hao Zhao , Guyue Zhou , Ya-Qin Zhang

Human Activity Recognition (HAR) using wearable sensor data has become a central task in mobile computing, healthcare, and human-computer interaction. Despite the success of traditional deep learning models such as CNNs and RNNs, they often…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Yunbo Liu , Xukui Qin , Yifan Gao , Xiang Li , Chengwei Feng

Speech separation always faces the challenge of handling prolonged time sequences. Past methods try to reduce sequence lengths and use the Transformer to capture global information. However, due to the quadratic time complexity of the…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-28 Haoxu Wang , Yiheng Jiang , Gang Qiao , Pengteng Shi , Biao Tian

The advent of foundation models have revolutionized various fields, enabling unprecedented task accuracy and flexibility in computational linguistics, computer vision and other domains. Attention mechanism has become an essential component…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Mohammadali Shakerdargah , Shan Lu , Chao Gao , Di Niu

Standard inference and training with transformer based architectures scale quadratically with input sequence length. This is prohibitively large for a variety of applications especially in web-page translation, query-answering etc.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Lovish Madaan , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Himanshu Jain , Prateek Jain

Although transformers have become the neural architectures of choice for natural language processing, they require orders of magnitude more training data, GPU memory, and computations in order to compete with convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Improving the efficiency of state-of-the-art methods in semantic segmentation requires overcoming the increasing computational cost as well as issues such as fusing semantic information from global and local contexts. Based on the recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-05 Serdar Erisen

The key to a Transformer model is the self-attention mechanism, which allows the model to analyze an entire sequence in a computationally efficient manner. Recent work has suggested the possibility that general attention mechanisms used by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Thomas Dowdell , Hongyu Zhang

We revisit the design choices in Transformers, and propose methods to address their weaknesses in handling long sequences. First, we propose a simple layer named gated attention unit, which allows the use of a weaker single-head attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Weizhe Hua , Zihang Dai , Hanxiao Liu , Quoc V. Le

Transformer-based models excel in speech recognition. Existing efforts to optimize Transformer inference, typically for long-context applications, center on simplifying attention score calculations. However, streaming speech recognition…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Yang Li , Liangzhen Lai , Yuan Shangguan , Forrest N. Iandola , Zhaoheng Ni , Ernie Chang , Yangyang Shi , Vikas Chandra

The Transformer architecture, underpinned by the self-attention mechanism, has become the de facto standard for sequence modeling tasks. However, its core computational primitive scales quadratically with sequence length (O(N^2)), creating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Rishiraj Acharya

Spatiotemporal predictive learning offers a self-supervised learning paradigm that enables models to learn both spatial and temporal patterns by predicting future sequences based on historical sequences. Mainstream methods are dominated by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Xuesong Nie , Xi Chen , Haoyuan Jin , Zhihang Zhu , Yunfeng Yan , Donglian Qi

Most models of visual attention aim at predicting either top-down or bottom-up control, as studied using different visual search and free-viewing tasks. In this paper we propose the Human Attention Transformer (HAT), a single model that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Zhibo Yang , Sounak Mondal , Seoyoung Ahn , Ruoyu Xue , Gregory Zelinsky , Minh Hoai , Dimitris Samaras

Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in low-level vision tasks, such as image super-resolution. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through attribution…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-03-21 Xiangyu Chen , Xintao Wang , Jiantao Zhou , Yu Qiao , Chao Dong