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Deceptive text classification is a critical task in natural language processing that aims to identify deceptive o fraudulent content. This study presents a comparative analysis of machine learning and transformer-based approaches for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Anusuya Krishnan

Despite being the current de-facto models in most NLP tasks, transformers are often limited to short sequences due to their quadratic attention complexity on the number of tokens. Several attempts to address this issue were studied, either…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Amine Abdaoui , Sourav Dutta

In this paper we shed light on the impact of fine-tuning over social media data in the internal representations of neural language models. We focus on bot detection in Twitter, a key task to mitigate and counteract the automatic spreading…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Andres Garcia-Silva , Cristian Berrio , Jose Manuel Gomez-Perez

Parameter-efficient fine-tuning approaches have recently garnered a lot of attention. Having considerably lower number of trainable weights, these methods can bring about scalability and computational effectiveness. In this paper, we look…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Mohammad Akbar-Tajari , Sara Rajaee , Mohammad Taher Pilehvar

Recently, leveraging pre-trained Transformer based language models in down stream, task specific models has advanced state of the art results in natural language understanding tasks. However, only a little research has explored the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-07 Daniel Grießhaber , Johannes Maucher , Ngoc Thang Vu

Transformer-based pretrained models like BERT, GPT-2 and T5 have been finetuned for a large number of natural language processing (NLP) tasks, and have been shown to be very effective. However, while finetuning, what changes across layers…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-09 Pavan Kalyan Reddy Neerudu , Subba Reddy Oota , Mounika Marreddy , Venkateswara Rao Kagita , Manish Gupta

Undoubtedly that the Bidirectional Encoder representations from Transformers is the most powerful technique in making Natural Language Processing tasks such as Named Entity Recognition, Question & Answers or Sentiment Analysis, however, the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Ibrahim Bouabdallaoui , Fatima Guerouate , Samya Bouhaddour , Chaimae Saadi , Mohammed Sbihi

Transformer architectures have emerged as promising deep learning (DL) tools for modeling complex sequence-to-sequence interactions in channel decoding. However, current transformer-based decoders for error correction codes (ECCs)…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-22 Hongzhi Zhu , Wei Xu , Xiaohu You

Transformer-based text classifiers such as BERT, RoBERTa, T5, and GPT have shown strong performance in natural language processing tasks but remain vulnerable to adversarial examples. These vulnerabilities raise significant security…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Bushra Sabir , Yansong Gao , Alsharif Abuadbba , M. Ali Babar

BERT achieves remarkable results in text classification tasks, it is yet not fully exploited, since only the last layer is used as a representation output for downstream classifiers. The most recent studies on the nature of linguistic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-15 Charaf Eddine Benarab , Shenglin Gui

The Transformer architecture aggregates input information through the self-attention mechanism, but there is no clear understanding of how this information is mixed across the entire model. Additionally, recent works have demonstrated that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Javier Ferrando , Gerard I. Gállego , Marta R. Costa-jussà

We probe pre-trained transformer language models for bridging inference. We first investigate individual attention heads in BERT and observe that attention heads at higher layers prominently focus on bridging relations in-comparison with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Onkar Pandit , Yufang Hou

Large pre-trained sentence encoders like BERT start a new chapter in natural language processing. A common practice to apply pre-trained BERT to sequence classification tasks (e.g., classification of sentences or sentence pairs) is by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-02-26 Wenxuan Zhou , Junyi Du , Xiang Ren

Transformer-based neural decoders have emerged as a promising approach to error correction coding, combining data-driven adaptability with efficient modeling of long-range dependencies. This paper presents a novel decoder architecture that…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Chin Wa Lau , Xiang Shi , Ziyan Zheng , Haiwen Cao , Nian Guo

State-of-the-art methods for Transformer-based semantic segmentation typically adopt Transformer decoders that are used to extract additional embeddings from image embeddings via cross-attention, refine either or both types of embeddings…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-10 Qishuai Wen , Chun-Guang Li

Transformers have become an indispensable module for text generation models since their great success in machine translation. Previous works attribute the~success of transformers to the query-key-value dot-product attention, which provides…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Lei Sha , Yuhang Song , Yordan Yordanov , Tommaso Salvatori , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Ever since neural models were adopted in data-to-text language generation, they have invariably been reliant on extrinsic components to improve their semantic accuracy, because the models normally do not exhibit the ability to generate text…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Juraj Juraska , Marilyn Walker

Positional encodings enable Transformers to incorporate sequential information, yet their theoretical understanding remains limited to two properties: distance attenuation and translation invariance. Because natural language lacks purely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zihan Gu , Ruoyu Chen , Han Zhang , Hua Zhang , Yue Hu

Transformer models are permutation equivariant. To supply the order and type information of the input tokens, position and segment embeddings are usually added to the input. Recent works proposed variations of positional encodings with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Pu-Chin Chen , Henry Tsai , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Hyung Won Chung , Yin-Wen Chang , Chun-Sung Ferng

We introduce the Temporal Contrastive Transformer (TCT), a representation learning framework designed to capture contextual temporal dynamics in sequences of financial transactions. The model is trained using a self-supervised contrastive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Danny Butvinik , Yonit Marcus , Nitzan Tal , Gabrielle Azoulay