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Relative positional encoding is widely used in vanilla and linear transformers to represent positional information. However, existing encoding methods of a vanilla transformer are not always directly applicable to a linear transformer,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Zhen Qin , Weixuan Sun , Kaiyue Lu , Hui Deng , Dongxu Li , Xiaodong Han , Yuchao Dai , Lingpeng Kong , Yiran Zhong

In this work, we theoretically demonstrate that current graph positional encodings (PEs) are not beneficial and could potentially hurt performance in tasks involving heterophilous graphs, where nodes that are close tend to have different…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Michael Ito , Jiong Zhu , Dexiong Chen , Danai Koutra , Jenna Wiens

Transformers rely on positional encoding to compensate for the inherent permutation invariance of self-attention. Traditional approaches use absolute sinusoidal embeddings or learned positional vectors, while more recent methods emphasize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Chase van de Geijn , Ayush Paliwal , Timo Lüddecke , Alexander S. Ecker

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

Optimizing communication topology is fundamental to the efficiency and effectiveness of Large Language Model (LLM)-based Multi-Agent Systems (MAS). While recent approaches utilize reinforcement learning to dynamically construct…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yueyang Cang , Xiaoteng Zhang , Erlu Zhao , Zehua Ji , Yuhang Liu , Yuchen He , Zhiyuan Ning , Chen Yijun , Wenge Que , Li Shi

Unsupervised pre-training on vast amounts of graph data is critical in real-world applications wherein labeled data is limited, such as molecule properties prediction or materials science. Existing approaches pre-train models for specific…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Viet Anh Nguyen , Nhat Khang Ngo , Truong Son Hy

Rotary Position Embedding (RoPE) is widely adopted in large language models, but when applied to vision-language models (VLMs) it couples text and image position indices and can introduce spurious cross-modal relative-position bias. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Chengcheng Wang , Jianyuan Guo , Hongguang Li , Yuchuan Tian , Ying Nie , Chang Xu , Kai Han

Learning node representations that incorporate information from graph structure benefits wide range of tasks on graph. The majority of existing graph neural networks (GNNs) have limited power in capturing position information for a given…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Yuheng Lu , Jinpeng Chen , ChuXiong Sun , Jie Hu

Positional Encodings (PEs) are essential for injecting structural information into Graph Neural Networks (GNNs), particularly Graph Transformers, yet their empirical impact remains insufficiently understood. We introduce a unified…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-15 Florian Grötschla , Jiaqing Xie , Roger Wattenhofer

We introduce STRING: Separable Translationally Invariant Position Encodings. STRING extends Rotary Position Encodings, a recently proposed and widely used algorithm in large language models, via a unifying theoretical framework.…

General object grasping is an important yet unsolved problem in the field of robotics. Most of the current methods either generate grasp poses with few DoF that fail to cover most of the success grasps, or only take the unstable depth image…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-04 Minghao Gou , Hao-Shu Fang , Zhanda Zhu , Sheng Xu , Chenxi Wang , Cewu Lu

Translation, rotation, and scaling are three commonly used geometric manipulation operations in image processing. Besides, some of them are successfully used in developing effective knowledge graph embedding (KGE) models such as TransE and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Xiou Ge , Yun-Cheng Wang , Bin Wang , C. -C. Jay Kuo

A multiple group rack is a rack which is a disjoint union of groups equipped with a binary operation satisfying some conditions. It is used to define invariants of spatial surfaces, i.e., oriented compact surfaces with boundaries embedded…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2025-04-09 Katsunori Arai

The action of a Weyl group on the associated weight lattice induces an additive action on the symmetric algebra and a multiplicative action on the group algebra of the lattice. We show that the coinvariant space of the multiplicative action…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-24 Sebastian Debus , Tobias Metzlaff

In transformer architectures, position encoding primarily provides a sense of sequence for input tokens. While the original transformer paper's method has shown satisfactory results in general language processing tasks, there have been new…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-26 Eren Unlu

Positional encodings (PEs) are essential for effective graph representation learning because they provide position awareness in inherently position-agnostic transformer architectures and increase the expressive capacity of Graph Neural…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Charilaos I. Kanatsoulis , Evelyn Choi , Stephanie Jegelka , Jure Leskovec , Alejandro Ribeiro

Agentic retrieval improves multi-hop question answering by giving language models autonomy to iteratively gather evidence. Recent work augments these systems with knowledge graphs for structured traversal, but this combination introduces…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Stockton Jenkins , Ramya Korlakai Vinayak , Junjie Hu

Existing foundation models, such as CLIP, aim to learn a unified embedding space for multimodal data, enabling a wide range of downstream web-based applications like search, recommendation, and content classification. However, these models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yufei He , Yuan Sui , Xiaoxin He , Yue Liu , Yifei Sun , Bryan Hooi

Implicit neural representations (INRs) are increasingly being used as tools to map coordinates to signals, encompassing applications from neural fields to texture compression, shape representations, and beyond. Most INR methods are based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Guillaume Perez , Janarbek Matai , Takahiro Harada

Attributed graph embedding, which learns vector representations from graph topology and node features, is a challenging task for graph analysis. Recently, methods based on graph convolutional networks (GCNs) have made great progress on this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-07-06 Ganqu Cui , Jie Zhou , Cheng Yang , Zhiyuan Liu