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Transformers have advanced the field of natural language processing (NLP) on a variety of important tasks. At the cornerstone of the Transformer architecture is the multi-head attention (MHA) mechanism which models pairwise interactions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Lin Zheng , Zhiyong Wu , Lingpeng Kong

Transformers and their attention mechanism have been revolutionary in the field of Machine Learning. While originally proposed for the language data, they quickly found their way to the image, video, graph, etc. data modalities with various…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-22 Saeed Amizadeh , Sara Abdali , Yinheng Li , Kazuhito Koishida

Attention mechanisms underpin modern deep learning, while the quadratic time and space complexity limit scalability for long sequences. To address this, Quantum Annealing Multi-Head Attention (QAMA) is proposed, a novel drop-in operator…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Peng Du , Jinjing Shi , Wenxuan Wang , Yin Ma , Kai Wen , Xuelong Li

Acquiring high-quality Positron Emission Tomography (PET) images requires administering high-dose radiotracers, which increases radiation exposure risks. Generating standard-dose PET (SPET) from low-dose PET (LPET) has become a potential…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-06-24 Xiaolong Niu , Zanting Ye , Xu Han , Yanchao Huang , Hao Sun , Hubing Wu , Lijun Lu

We propose the Multi-Head Density Adaptive Attention Mechanism (DAAM), a novel probabilistic attention framework that can be used for Parameter-Efficient Fine-tuning (PEFT), and the Density Adaptive Transformer (DAT), designed to enhance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Georgios Ioannides , Aman Chadha , Aaron Elkins

Attention layers are an integral part of modern end-to-end automatic speech recognition systems, for instance as part of the Transformer or Conformer architecture. Attention is typically multi-headed, where each head has an independent set…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Kartik Audhkhasi , Yinghui Huang , Bhuvana Ramabhadran , Pedro J. Moreno

The attention mechanism is an important reason for the success of transformers. It relies on computing pairwise relations between tokens. To reduce the high computational cost of standard quadratic attention, linear attention has been…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Hanno Ackermann , Hong Cai , Mohsen Ghafoorian , Amirhossein Habibian

The multi-head attention layer is one of the key components of the transformer architecture that sets it apart from traditional feed-forward models. Given a sequence length $k$, attention matrices…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Sitan Chen , Yuanzhi Li

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) evaluate short-range correlations in input images which progress along the layers, whereas vision transformer (ViT) architectures evaluate long-range correlations, using repeated transformer encoders…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-10 Ella Koresh , Ronit D. Gross , Yuval Meir , Yarden Tzach , Tal Halevi , Ido Kanter

Despite the remarkable empirical performance of Transformers, their theoretical understanding remains elusive. Here, we consider a deep multi-head self-attention network, that is closely related to Transformers yet analytically tractable.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Lorenzo Tiberi , Francesca Mignacco , Kazuki Irie , Haim Sompolinsky

This paper derives limit properties of nonparametric kernel regression estimators without requiring existence of density for regressors in $\mathbb{R}^{q}.$ In functional regression limit properties are established for multivariate…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-01-08 Marcia Schafgans , Victoria Zinde-Walsh

Let $i=1,\ldots,N$ index a simple random sample of units drawn from some large population. For each unit we observe the vector of regressors $X_{i}$ and, for each of the $N\left(N-1\right)$ ordered pairs of units, an outcome $Y_{ij}$. The…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Bryan S. Graham , Fengshi Niu , James L. Powell

Although deep convolutional networks have been widely studied for head and neck (HN) organs at risk (OAR) segmentation, their use for routine clinical treatment planning is limited by a lack of robustness to imaging artifacts, low soft…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-01 Harini Veeraraghavan , Jue Jiang , Sharif Elguindi , Sean L. Berry , Ifeanyirochukwu Onochie , Aditya Apte , Laura Cervino , Joseph O. Deasy

Hardware-aware Neural Architecture Search approaches (HW-NAS) automate the design of deep learning architectures, tailored specifically to a given target hardware platform. Yet, these techniques demand substantial computational resources,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-22 Nilotpal Sinha , Peyman Rostami , Abd El Rahman Shabayek , Anis Kacem , Djamila Aouada

Long-form speech recognition is an application area of increasing research focus. ASR models based on multi-head attention (MHA) are ill-suited to long-form ASR because of their quadratic complexity in sequence length. We build on recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Martin Ratajczak , Jean-Philippe Robichaud , Jennifer Drexler Fox

Homography estimation is a basic computer vision task, which aims to obtain the transformation from multi-view images for image alignment. Unsupervised learning homography estimation trains a convolution neural network for feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-07 Mingxiao Huo , Zhihao Zhang , Xinyang Ren , Xianqiang Yang

The generation of factually incorrect objects, commonly known as object hallucination, remains a persistent challenge in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). Current approaches to address this issue - ranging from expensive data-driven…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yuanzhi Xu , Qian Gao , Jun Fan , Guohui Ding , Zhenyu Yang , Sixue Lin , Yuteng Xiao

This paper tackles the high computational/space complexity associated with Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHSA) in vanilla vision transformers. To this end, we propose Hierarchical MHSA (H-MHSA), a novel approach that computes self-attention in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-27 Yun Liu , Yu-Huan Wu , Guolei Sun , Le Zhang , Ajad Chhatkuli , Luc Van Gool

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) networks have been proposed as an efficient way to scale up model capacity and implement conditional computing. However, the study of MoE components mostly focused on the feedforward layer in Transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Xiaofeng Zhang , Yikang Shen , Zeyu Huang , Jie Zhou , Wenge Rong , Zhang Xiong

Tabular data inherently exhibits significant feature heterogeneity, but existing transformer-based methods lack specialized mechanisms to handle this property. To bridge the gap, we propose MAYA, an encoder-decoder transformer-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Xuechen Li , Yupeng Li , Jian Liu , Xiaolin Jin , Xin Hu