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The quadratic cost of attention in transformers motivated the development of efficient approaches: namely sparse and sliding window attention, convolutions and linear attention. Although these approaches result in impressive reductions in…

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Edge devices increasingly run multimodal sensing pipelines that must remain accurate despite fluctuating power budgets and unpredictable sensor dropout. Existing pruning methods fail under these conditions: they generally require…

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Malignant brain tumors have become an aggressive and dangerous disease that leads to death worldwide.Multi-modal MRI data is crucial for accurate brain tumor segmentation, but missing modalities common in clinical practice can severely…

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Characterising the heterogeneous presentation of Parkinson's disease (PD) requires integrating biological and clinical markers within a unified predictive framework. While multimodal data provide complementary information, many existing…

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Multi-modal MR imaging is routinely used in clinical practice to diagnose and investigate brain tumors by providing rich complementary information. Previous multi-modal MRI segmentation methods usually perform modal fusion by concatenating…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-01 Zhaohu Xing , Lequan Yu , Liang Wan , Tong Han , Lei Zhu

This paper presents a new vision Transformer, Scale-Aware Modulation Transformer (SMT), that can handle various downstream tasks efficiently by combining the convolutional network and vision Transformer. The proposed Scale-Aware Modulation…

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Cognitive impairment detection through spontaneous speech is a promising avenue for early diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) and mild cognitive impairment (MCI), where timely intervention can significantly improve patient outcomes. The…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yifan Gao , Long Guo , Hong Liu

The computational demands of self-attention mechanisms pose a critical challenge for transformer-based video generation, particularly in synthesizing ultra-long sequences. Current approaches, such as factorized attention and fixed sparse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Qirui Li , Guangcong Zheng , Qi Zhao , Jie Li , Bin Dong , Yiwu Yao , Xi Li

Unpaired Multi-Modal Learning (UMML) which leverages unpaired multi-modal data to boost model performance on each individual modality has attracted a lot of research interests in medical image analysis. However, existing UMML methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-10 Lei Zhu , Yanyu Xu , Huazhu Fu , Xinxing Xu , Rick Siow Mong Goh , Yong Liu

Early and accurate detection of Alzheimer's disease (AD) remains a major challenge in medical diagnosis due to its subtle onset and progressive nature. This research introduces an explainable ensemble learning Framework designed to classify…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Nishan Mitra

In this work we introduce a new transformer architecture called SparseDistilBERT (SDBERT), which is a combination of sparse attention and knowledge distillantion (KD). We implemented sparse attention mechanism to reduce quadratic dependency…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Devaraju Vinoda , Pawan Kumar Yadav

Large vision-language models (VLMs) enable joint processing of text and images. However, incorporating vision data significantly increases the prompt length, resulting in a longer time to first token (TTFT). This bottleneck can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Tharun Adithya Srikrishnan , Deval Shah , Timothy Hein , Ahmed Hasssan , Stephen Youn , Steven K. Reinhardt

Diffusion models have recently gained state of the art performance on many image generation tasks. However, most models require significant computational resources to achieve this. This becomes apparent in the application of medical image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Karan Jain , Mohammad Nayeem Teli

Attention-based architectures have achieved superior performance in multivariate time series forecasting but are computationally expensive. Techniques such as patching and adaptive masking have been developed to reduce their sizes and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Suhan Guo , Jiahong Deng , Mengjun Yi , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao

Transformer architectures have achieved SOTA performance on the human mesh recovery (HMR) from monocular images. However, the performance gain has come at the cost of substantial memory and computational overhead. A lightweight and…

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Fast MRI aims to reconstruct a high fidelity image from partially observed measurements. Exuberant development in fast MRI using deep learning has been witnessed recently. Meanwhile, novel deep learning paradigms, e.g., Transformer based…

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Alzheimer's disease is one of the most common types of neurodegenerative disease, characterized by the accumulation of amyloid-beta plaque and tau tangles. Recently, deep learning approaches have shown promise in Alzheimer's disease…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-03 Gia Minh Hoang , Youngjoo Lee , Jae Gwan Kim

We introduce $\Sigma$-Attention, a Transformer-based operator-learning framework to address a key computational challenge in correlated materials. Our approach utilizes an Encoder-Only Transformer as an ansatz to approximate the self-energy…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2025-06-02 Yuanran Zhu , Peter Rosenberg , Zhen Huang , Hardeep Bassi , Chao Yang , Shiwei Zhang

Slim attention shrinks the context memory size by 2x for transformer models with MHA (multi-head attention), which can speed up inference by up to 2x for large context windows. Slim attention is an exact, mathematically identical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Nils Graef , Andrew Wasielewski

Very recently, a variety of vision transformer architectures for dense prediction tasks have been proposed and they show that the design of spatial attention is critical to their success in these tasks. In this work, we revisit the design…

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