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Advances in speech synthesis intensify security threats, motivating real-time deepfake detection research. We investigate whether bidirectional Mamba can serve as a competitive alternative to Self-Attention in detecting synthetic speech.…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-08-14 Xi Xuan , Zimo Zhu , Wenxin Zhang , Yi-Cheng Lin , Tomi Kinnunen

Sparse attention has been proposed as a way to alleviate the quadratic cost of transformers, a central bottleneck in long-context training. A promising line of work is $\alpha$-entmax attention, a differentiable sparse alternative to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Nuno Gonçalves , Hugo Pitorro , Vlad Niculae , Edoardo Ponti , Lei Li , Andre Martins , Marcos Treviso

Transformers have widely adopted attention networks for sequence mixing and MLPs for channel mixing, playing a pivotal role in achieving breakthroughs across domains. However, recent literature highlights issues with attention networks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Badri N. Patro , Vijay S. Agneeswaran

While Transformer architecture excel at modeling long-range dependencies contributing to its widespread adoption in vision tasks the quadratic complexity of softmax-based attention mechanisms imposes a major bottleneck, particularly when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yuan Cao , Dong Wang

Recent advances in efficient sequence modeling have introduced selective state-space layers, a key component of the Mamba architecture, which have demonstrated remarkable success in a wide range of NLP and vision tasks. While Mamba's…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Edo Cohen-Karlik , Itamar Zimerman , Liane Galanti , Ido Atad , Amir Globerson , Lior Wolf

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have set themselves apart with their exceptional performance in complex language modelling tasks. However, these models are also known for their significant computational and storage…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Peng Lu , Ivan Kobyzev , Mehdi Rezagholizadeh , Boxing Chen , Philippe Langlais

Transformers have become one of the foundational architectures in point cloud analysis tasks due to their excellent global modeling ability. However, the attention mechanism has quadratic complexity, making the design of a linear complexity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Dingkang Liang , Xin Zhou , Wei Xu , Xingkui Zhu , Zhikang Zou , Xiaoqing Ye , Xiao Tan , Xiang Bai

Enhancing and preserving the readability of document images, particularly historical ones, is crucial for effective document image analysis. Numerous models have been proposed for this task, including convolutional-based, transformer-based,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Mohd. Azfar , Siddhant Bharadwaj , Ashwin Sasikumar

Linear attention has emerged as a promising alternative to softmax-based attention, leveraging kernelized feature maps to reduce complexity from quadratic to linear in sequence length. However, the non-negative constraint on feature maps…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-05 Weikang Meng , Yadan Luo , Xin Li , Dongmei Jiang , Zheng Zhang

Point cloud segmentation is an important topic in 3D understanding that has traditionally has been tackled using either the CNN or Transformer. Recently, Mamba has emerged as a promising alternative, offering efficient long-range contextual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Yong Xien Chng , Xuchong Qiu , Yizeng Han , Yifan Pu , Jiewei Cao , Gao Huang

Mamba is an efficient sequence model that rivals Transformers and demonstrates significant potential as a foundational architecture for various tasks. Quantization is commonly used in neural networks to reduce model size and computational…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-12 Zukang Xu , Yuxuan Yue , Xing Hu , Zhihang Yuan , Zixu Jiang , Zhixuan Chen , Jiangyong Yu , Chen Xu , Sifan Zhou , Dawei Yang

Transformers have become dominant in large-scale deep learning tasks across various domains, including text, 2D and 3D vision. However, the quadratic complexity of their attention mechanism limits their efficiency as the sequence length…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-04 Nursena Köprücü , Destiny Okpekpe , Antonio Orvieto

While linear attention reduces the quadratic complexity of standard Transformers to linear time, it often lags behind in expressivity due to the removal of softmax normalization. This omission eliminates \emph{global competition}, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Mingwei Xu , Xuan Lin , Xinnan Guo , Wanqing Xu , Wanyun Cui

Mamba, a selective state-space model (SSM), has emerged as an efficient alternative to Transformers for speech modeling, enabling long-sequence processing with linear complexity. While effective in speech separation, existing approaches,…

Sound · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Ke Xue , Chang Sun , Rongfei Fan , Jing Wang , Han Hu

Linear attention is an efficient attention mechanism that has recently emerged as a promising alternative to conventional softmax attention. With its ability to process tokens in linear computational complexities, linear attention, in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Zhen Qin , Weigao Sun , Dong Li , Xuyang Shen , Weixuan Sun , Yiran Zhong

Accurate and efficient multivariate time series (MTS) analysis is increasingly critical for a wide range of intelligent applications. Within this realm, Transformers have emerged as the predominant architecture due to their strong ability…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Rui An , Haohao Qu , Wenqi Fan , Xuequn Shang , Qing Li

While the Mamba architecture demonstrates superior inference efficiency and competitive performance on short-context natural language processing (NLP) tasks, empirical evidence suggests its capacity to comprehend long contexts is limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Danlong Yuan , Jiahao Liu , Bei Li , Huishuai Zhang , Jingang Wang , Xunliang Cai , Dongyan Zhao

The Transformer model, particularly its cross-attention module, is widely used for feature fusion in target sound extraction which extracts the signal of interest based on given clues. Despite its effectiveness, this approach suffers from…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-26 Donghang Wu , Yiwen Wang , Xihong Wu , Tianshu Qu

In multivariate time-series forecasting (MTSF), extracting the temporal correlations of the input sequences is crucial. While popular Transformer-based predictive models can perform well, their quadratic computational complexity results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shusen Ma , Yu Kang , Peng Bai , Yun-Bo Zhao

Recently, random feature attentions (RFAs) are proposed to approximate the softmax attention in linear time and space complexity by linearizing the exponential kernel. In this paper, we first propose a novel perspective to understand the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Lin Zheng , Chong Wang , Lingpeng Kong