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Kernel methods are typically formulated under the assumption of exact, noise-free access to the Gram matrix. However, in emerging settings such as quantum machine learning, each kernel entry must be inferred from noisy observations, and its…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Artur Miroszewski

In this paper we propose to augment a modern neural-network architecture with an attention model inspired by human perception. Specifically, we adversarially train and analyze a neural model incorporating a human inspired, visual attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Daniel Zoran , Mike Chrzanowski , Po-Sen Huang , Sven Gowal , Alex Mott , Pushmeet Kohl

Attention mechanisms have raised significant interest in the research community, since they promise significant improvements in the performance of neural network architectures. However, in any specific problem, we still lack a principled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Rafael Pedro , Arlindo L. Oliveira

Object-based attention is a key component of the visual system, relevant for perception, learning, and memory. Neurons tuned to features of attended objects tend to be more active than those associated with non-attended objects. There is a…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2021-06-09 Jordan Lei , Ari S. Benjamin , Konrad P. Kording

Sequential recommendation systems that model dynamic preferences based on a use's past behavior are crucial to e-commerce. Recent studies on these systems have considered various types of information such as images and texts. However,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Hyungtaik Oh , Wonkeun Jo , Dongil Kim

Sequential recommender systems aim to model users' evolving interests from their historical behaviors, and hence make customized time-relevant recommendations. Compared with traditional models, deep learning approaches such as CNN and RNN…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2021-03-08 Chang Liu , Xiaoguang Li , Guohao Cai , Zhenhua Dong , Hong Zhu , Lifeng Shang

In this paper we propose a neural network model with a novel Sequential Attention layer that extends soft attention by assigning weights to words in an input sequence in a way that takes into account not just how well that word matches a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-28 Sebastian Brarda , Philip Yeres , Samuel R. Bowman

Both humans and machines learn the meaning of unknown words through contextual information in a sentence, but not all contexts are equally helpful for learning. We introduce an effective method for capturing the level of contextual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Sungjin Nam , David Jurgens , Gwen Frishkoff , Kevyn Collins-Thompson

Feature selection is the problem of selecting a subset of features for a machine learning model that maximizes model quality subject to a budget constraint. For neural networks, prior methods, including those based on $\ell_1$…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Taisuke Yasuda , MohammadHossein Bateni , Lin Chen , Matthew Fahrbach , Gang Fu , Vahab Mirrokni

This paper proposes a new neural architecture for collaborative ranking with implicit feedback. Our model, LRML (\textit{Latent Relational Metric Learning}) is a novel metric learning approach for recommendation. More specifically, instead…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-02-14 Yi Tay , Anh Tuan Luu , Siu Cheung Hui

Humans can infer approximate interaction force between objects from only vision information because we already have learned it through experiences. Based on this idea, we propose a recurrent convolutional neural network-based method using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-22 Hochul Shin , Hyeon Cho , Dongyi Kim , Daekwan Ko , Soochul Lim , Wonjun Hwang

The self-attention mechanism prevails in modern machine learning. It has an interesting functionality of adaptively selecting tokens from an input sequence by modulating the degree of attention localization, which many researchers speculate…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-02-06 Han Bao , Ryuichiro Hataya , Ryo Karakida

Positional encodings enable Transformers to incorporate sequential information, yet their theoretical understanding remains limited to two properties: distance attenuation and translation invariance. Because natural language lacks purely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Zihan Gu , Ruoyu Chen , Han Zhang , Hua Zhang , Yue Hu

This paper presents Topical, a novel deep neural network for repository level embeddings. Existing methods, reliant on natural language documentation or naive aggregation techniques, are outperformed by Topical's utilization of an attention…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Agathe Lherondelle , Varun Babbar , Yash Satsangi , Fran Silavong , Shaltiel Eloul , Sean Moran

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have been recently introduced in the domain of session-based next item recommendation. An ordered collection of past items the user has interacted with in a session (or sequence) are embedded into a…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Fajie Yuan , Alexandros Karatzoglou , Ioannis Arapakis , Joemon M Jose , Xiangnan He

Self-attention model have shown its flexibility in parallel computation and the effectiveness on modeling both long- and short-term dependencies. However, it calculates the dependencies between representations without considering the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-02-18 Baosong Yang , Jian Li , Derek Wong , Lidia S. Chao , Xing Wang , Zhaopeng Tu

Although numerous recent tracking approaches have made tremendous advances in the last decade, achieving high-performance visual tracking remains a challenge. In this paper, we propose an end-to-end network model to learn reinforced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-03 Peng Gao , Qiquan Zhang , Fei Wang , Liyi Xiao , Hamido Fujita , Yan Zhang

Sound event localization frameworks based on deep neural networks have shown increased robustness with respect to reverberation and noise in comparison to classical parametric approaches. In particular, recurrent architectures that…

The self-attention module is a key component of Transformer-based models, wherein each token pays attention to every other token. Recent studies have shown that these heads exhibit syntactic, semantic, or local behaviour. Some studies have…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-08-14 Madhura Pande , Aakriti Budhraja , Preksha Nema , Pratyush Kumar , Mitesh M. Khapra

Self-attention mechanisms have revolutionised deep learning architectures, yet their core mathematical structures remain incompletely understood. In this work, we develop a category-theoretic framework focusing on the linear components of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Charles O'Neill