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Large language models have revolutionized data processing in numerous domains, with their ability to handle extended context reasoning receiving notable recognition. To speed up inference, maintaining a key-value (KV) cache memory is…

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Characteristics such as low contrast and significant organ shape variations are often exhibited in medical images. The improvement of segmentation performance in medical imaging is limited by the generally insufficient adaptive capabilities…

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Since the Transformer architecture was introduced in 2017 there has been many attempts to bring the self-attention paradigm in the field of computer vision. In this paper we propose a novel self-attention module that can be easily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Roberto Pecoraro , Valerio Basile , Viviana Bono , Sara Gallo

Window-based transformers have demonstrated outstanding performance in super-resolution tasks due to their adaptive modeling capabilities through local self-attention (SA). However, they exhibit higher computational complexity and inference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-27 Zhenyu Hu , Wanjie Sun

Attention operator has been widely used as a basic brick in visual understanding since it provides some flexibility through its adjustable kernels. However, this operator suffers from inherent limitations: (1) the attention kernel is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Heeseung Kwon , Francisco M. Castro , Manuel J. Marin-Jimenez , Nicolas Guil , Karteek Alahari

Transformer-based architectures have become the prevailing backbone of large language models. However, the quadratic time and memory complexity of self-attention remains a fundamental obstacle to efficient long-context modeling. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Yutao Sun , Zhenyu Li , Yike Zhang , Tengyu Pan , Bowen Dong , Yuyi Guo , Jianyong Wang

Growing evidence suggests that layer attention mechanisms, which enhance interaction among layers in deep neural networks, have significantly advanced network architectures. However, existing layer attention methods suffer from redundancy,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Hanze Li , Xiande Huang

In the realm of deep learning, spatial attention mechanisms have emerged as a vital method for enhancing the performance of convolutional neural networks. However, these mechanisms possess inherent limitations that cannot be overlooked.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xin Zhang , Chen Liu , Degang Yang , Tingting Song , Yichen Ye , Ke Li , Yingze Song

Attention-based models have been widely used in many areas, such as computer vision and natural language processing. However, relevant applications in time series classification (TSC) have not been explored deeply yet, causing a significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Bowen Zhao , Huanlai Xing , Xinhan Wang , Fuhong Song , Zhiwen Xiao

In this work, we conduct a systematic analysis of Native Sparse Attention (NSA) and propose targeted improvements that enhance long-context modeling. A key insight is that alternating between local (sliding-window) and global (compression,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yuxuan Hu , Jianchao Tan , Jiaqi Zhang , Wen Zan , Pingwei Sun , Yifan Lu , Yerui Sun , Yuchen Xie , Xunliang Cai , Jing Zhang

Considering the spectral properties of images, we propose a new self-attention mechanism with highly reduced computational complexity, up to a linear rate. To better preserve edges while promoting similarity within objects, we propose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Fengyu Zhang , Ashkan Panahi , Guangjun Gao

Image deblurring aims to recover the latent sharp image from its blurry counterpart and has a wide range of applications in computer vision. The Convolution Neural Networks (CNNs) have performed well in this domain for many years, and until…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Lingyan Ruan , Mojtaba Bemana , Hans-peter Seidel , Karol Myszkowski , Bin Chen

Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) have been recently integrated into Transformer architectures due to their potential to reduce computational demands and to improve power efficiency. Yet, the implementation of the attention mechanism using…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Zihang Song , Prabodh Katti , Osvaldo Simeone , Bipin Rajendran

Non-Local Attention (NLA) brings significant improvement for Single Image Super-Resolution (SISR) by leveraging intrinsic feature correlation in natural images. However, NLA gives noisy information large weights and consumes quadratic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-11 Bin Xia , Yucheng Hang , Yapeng Tian , Wenming Yang , Qingmin Liao , Jie Zhou

In order to enhance the real-time performance of convolutional neural networks(CNNs), more and more researchers are focusing on improving the efficiency of CNN. Based on the analysis of some CNN architectures, such as ResNet, DenseNet,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-16 Qiuyu Zhu , Ruixin Zhang

Light-weight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) suffer performance degradation as their low computational budgets constrain both the depth (number of convolution layers) and the width (number of channels) of CNNs, resulting in limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-02 Yinpeng Chen , Xiyang Dai , Mengchen Liu , Dongdong Chen , Lu Yuan , Zicheng Liu

Few-Shot Learning (FSL) has attracted growing attention in computer vision due to its capability in model training without the need for excessive data. FSL is challenging because the training and testing categories (the base vs. novel sets)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Ying-Yu Chen , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Ming-Ching Chang

Sparse-Linear Attention (SLA) combines sparse and linear attention to accelerate diffusion models and has shown strong performance in video generation. However, (i) SLA relies on a heuristic split that assigns computations to the sparse or…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Jintao Zhang , Haoxu Wang , Kai Jiang , Kaiwen Zheng , Youhe Jiang , Ion Stoica , Jianfei Chen , Jun Zhu , Joseph E. Gonzalez

Sentence classification is one of the basic tasks of natural language processing. Convolution neural network (CNN) has the ability to extract n-grams features through convolutional filters and capture local correlations between consecutive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Shandong Yuan

Accurate channel estimation is critical for high-performance Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiplexing systems such as 5G New Radio, particularly under low signal-to-noise ratio and stringent latency constraints. This letter presents…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-04-17 Miguel Camelo Botero , Esra Aycan Beyazit , Nina Slamnik-Kriještorac , Johann M. Marquez-Barja