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We present a conformal prediction method for time series using the Transformer architecture to capture long-memory and long-range dependencies. Specifically, we use the Transformer decoder as a conditional quantile estimator to predict the…

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Transformers have revolutionized machine learning across diverse domains, yet understanding their behavior remains crucial, particularly in high-stakes applications. This paper introduces the contextual counting task, a novel toy problem…

Transformer networks have seen great success in natural language processing and machine vision, where task objectives such as next word prediction and image classification benefit from nuanced context sensitivity across high-dimensional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Yuxuan Li , James L. McClelland

Function encoders are a recent technique that learn neural network basis functions to form compact, adaptive representations of Hilbert spaces of functions. We show that function encoders provide a principled connection to feature learning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Su Ann Low , Quentin Rommel , Kevin S. Miller , Adam J. Thorpe , Ufuk Topcu

Examining the effect of different encoding techniques on entity and context embeddings, the goal of this work is to challenge commonly used Ordinal encoding for tabular learning. Applying different preprocessing methods and network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Fredy Reusser

In recent years, huge progress has been made on learning neural implicit representations from multi-view images for 3D reconstruction. As an additional input complementing coordinates, using sinusoidal functions as positional encodings…

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This paper proposes an algorithm that implements binary encoding of the categorical features of neural network model input data, while also implementing changes in the forward and backpropagation procedures in order to achieve the property…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Lazar Zlatić

In this study, we introduce an innovative EEG signal reconstruction sub-module designed to enhance the performance of deep learning models on EEG eye-tracking tasks. This sub-module can integrate with all Encoder-Classifier-based deep…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Weigeng Li , Neng Zhou , Xiaodong Qu

Electroencephalography (EEG) decoding is a challenging task due to the limited availability of labelled data. While transfer learning is a promising technique to address this challenge, it assumes that transferable data domains and task are…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-08-07 Bruno Aristimunha , Raphael Y. de Camargo , Walter H. Lopez Pinaya , Sylvain Chevallier , Alexandre Gramfort , Cedric Rommel

Encoding a sequence of observations is an essential task with many applications. The encoding can become highly efficient when the observations are generated by a dynamical system. A dynamical system imposes regularities on the observations…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2018-05-29 Arash Mehrjou , Friedrich Solowjow , Sebastian Trimpe , Bernhard Schölkopf

Traditional stabilizer codes operate over prime power local-dimensions. In this work we extend the stabilizer formalism using the local-dimension-invariant setting to import stabilizer codes from these standard local-dimensions to other…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-14 Lane G. Gunderman

In this paper, we present a novel transformer-based architecture for end-to-end image compression. Our architecture incorporates blocks that effectively capture local dependencies between tokens, eliminating the need for positional encoding…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-09-09 Bouzid Arezki , Fangchen Feng , Anissa Mokraoui

In contrast to fully connected networks, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) achieve efficiency by learning weights associated with local filters with a finite spatial extent. An implication of this is that a filter may know what it is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Md Amirul Islam , Sen Jia , Neil D. B. Bruce

Vision transformers have demonstrated significant advantages in computer vision tasks due to their ability to capture long-range dependencies and contextual relationships through self-attention. However, existing position encoding…

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Neural methods of molecule property prediction require efficient encoding of structure and property relationship to be accurate. Recent work using graph algorithms shows limited generalization in the latent molecule encoding space. We build…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-11-26 Prateeth Nayak , Andrew Silberfarb , Ran Chen , Tulay Muezzinoglu , John Byrnes

There is a growing interest in the ability of neural networks to execute algorithmic tasks (e.g., arithmetic, summary statistics, and sorting). The goal of this work is to better understand the role of attention in Transformers for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Artur Back de Luca , George Giapitzakis , Shenghao Yang , Petar Veličković , Kimon Fountoulakis

Recently, a coding technique called position-based coding has been used to establish achievability statements for various kinds of classical communication protocols that use quantum channels. In the present paper, we apply this technique in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-10 Haoyu Qi , Qingle Wang , Mark M. Wilde

The distinguishing power of graph transformers is closely tied to the choice of positional encoding: features used to augment the base transformer with information about the graph. There are two primary types of positional encoding:…

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Green's function provides an inherent connection between theoretical analysis and numerical methods for elliptic partial differential equations, and general absence of its closed-form expression necessitates surrogate modeling to guide the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Qi Sun , Shengyan Li , Bowen Zheng , Lili Ju , Xuejun Xu

Encodings, that is, injective functions from words to words, have been studied extensively in several settings. In computability theory the notion of encoding is crucial for defining computability on arbitrary domains, as well as for…

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