Bayesian attention improves model performance and robustness.
problem Limited exploration of stochastic attention in neural networks.
method Introduces Bayesian attention belief networks using gamma and Weibull distributions.
result Outperforms deterministic and stochastic attention methods in accuracy and robustness.
Neural networks using transformer-based architectures have recently demonstrated great power and flexibility in modeling sequences of many types. One of the core components of transformer networks is the attention layer, which allows contextual information to be exchanged among sequence elements. While many of the prev…
Although deep neural networks generally have fixed network structures, the concept of dynamic mechanism has drawn more and more attention in recent years. Attention mechanisms compute input-dependent dynamic attention weights for aggregating a sequence of hidden states. Dynamic network configuration in convolutional ne…
Mathematical framework for understanding attention in neural networks.
problem Lack of theoretical understanding of attention in neural networks.
method Proposes a measure-theoretic model of attention and interprets self-attention as a system of self-interacting particles.
result Shows that attention is Lipschitz-continuous under suitable assumptions.
A framework for transformer attention layers derived from SVR.
problem Developing principled attention mechanisms for transformers.
method Mapping self-attention to SVR, deriving new attention types.
result Improved transformer performance and efficiency.
Self-attention models benefit equally from width and depth, but beyond a certain point, depth becomes less efficient.
problem Understanding the optimal balance between depth and width in self-attention models.
method Theoretical predictions and empirical ablations on networks of varying depths and widths.
result An optimal width of 30K is recommended for a 1-Trillion parameter network, marking a significant width for self-attention models.
Analyzes self-attention in recurrent networks, proving it mitigates vanishing gradients.
problem Vanishing gradients in recurrent networks when capturing long-term dependencies.
method Formal analysis of self-attention's effect on gradient propagation, proposing a relevancy screening mechanism.
result Self-attention mitigates vanishing gradients in recurrent networks, providing guarantees.
AReLU uses attention-based rectification to improve neural network performance.
problem Improving neural network performance through better activation functions.
method Integrates attention mechanism with rectified linear unit (ReLU) to learn and scale feature maps.
result AReLU significantly boosts performance of most network architectures with minimal changes.
Paper investigates Lipschitz constants of self-attention modules in neural networks.
problem Lipschitz constants of self-attention modules in neural networks.
method Proved standard dot-product self-attention is not Lipschitz for unbounded input domain. Proposed L2 self-attention that is Lipschitz. Derived upper bound on L2 self-attention's Lipschitz constant.
result Proved standard self-attention is not Lipschitz for unbounded input domain and proposed an alternative L2 self-attention that is Lipschitz.
Aligns attention distributions for improved accuracy and robustness.
problem Improving the accuracy and robustness of neural networks using attention mechanisms.
method Alignment attention that encourages key and query distributions to match within each head.
result Alignment attention leads to better accuracy, uncertainty estimation, and robustness across various tasks.
SpGAT learns graph representations using spectral attention for efficiency.
problem Efficiently capturing global graph patterns with minimal parameters.
method Introduces Spectral Graph Attention Network (SpGAT) using spectral domain attention mechanisms and a fast Chebychev approximation.
result SpGAT achieves better global pattern recognition with fewer parameters compared to GAT.
Improved speech enhancement with MNTFA using time-frequency attention.
problem Speech enhancement with limited model size and memory.
method Designing MNTFA with self-attention modules for long sequences and joint training.
result MNTFA achieves better performance with fewer parameters than DPCRN.
3D Axial-Attention improves lung nodule classification accuracy.
problem Limited 3D attention in existing methods.
method Proposes 3D Axial-Attention network with 3D positional encoding.
result 3D Axial-Attention achieves state-of-the-art performance.
Lipschitz normalization boosts deep attention models, especially for graph neural networks.
problem Gradient explosion in deep graph attention networks leads to poor performance.
method Enforcing Lipschitz continuity by normalizing attention scores.
result Deep GAT models with LipschitzNorm achieve state-of-the-art results for tasks with long-range dependencies.
Although group convolutional networks are able to learn powerful representations based on symmetry patterns, they lack explicit means to learn meaningful relationships among them (e.g., relative positions and poses). In this paper, we present attentive group equivariant convolutions, a generalization of the group convo…
Deep neural network models have recently draw lots of attention, as it consistently produce impressive results in many computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection, etc. However, interpreting such model and show the reason why it performs quite well becomes a challenging question. In this paper,…
Graph attention network improves MLTC by capturing label dependencies.
problem Ignoring label dependencies in MLTC tasks.
method Graph attention network model that captures label dependencies.
result The model achieves similar or better performance than state-of-the-art models.
New insights into how encoder-decoder networks generate attention matrices.
problem Understanding how encoder-decoder networks use attention matrices.
method Decomposing hidden states into temporal and input-driven components.
result Attention matrices are formed based on task requirements, not architecture type.
TSAM predicts directed temporal links using GCN and self-attention.
problem Predicting links in directed temporal networks.
method GCN, self-attention mechanism, autoencoder architecture, graph attentional layers, graph convolutional layers, graph recurrent unit layer.
result TSAM outperforms benchmarks on four realistic networks.
We investigate Relational Graph Attention Networks, a class of models that extends non-relational graph attention mechanisms to incorporate relational information, opening up these methods to a wider variety of problems. A thorough evaluation of these models is performed, and comparisons are made against established be…
GSAN learns adaptive node representations using geometric scattering and attention.
problem Oversmoothing in node representation learning.
method Attention-based architecture integrating geometric scattering and GCN channels.
result GSAN outperforms previous networks in semi-supervised node classification.
Attention Model has now become an important concept in neural networks that has been researched within diverse application domains. This survey provides a structured and comprehensive overview of the developments in modeling attention. In particular, we propose a taxonomy which groups existing techniques into coherent …
Bayesian Attention Networks compress data by focusing on key training samples.
problem Lossless data compression for efficiency.
method Bayesian Attention Networks with attention factors and latent space.
result Efficient prediction using a few correlated training samples.
Attention-based GNNs can't prevent oversmoothing, leading to homogeneous node representations.
problem The issue of oversmoothing in attention-based GNNs.
method Viewed attention-based GNNs as nonlinear time-varying dynamical systems and used tools from the theory of products of inhomogeneous matrices and the joint spectral radius.
result Graph attention mechanism cannot prevent oversmoothing and loses expressive power exponentially.
Graph attention networks improve performance on heterogeneous graphs.
problem Complex performance of GNNs on heterogeneous graphs.
method Integrating positional encodings into graph attention networks.
result Graph attention networks excel in node classification and link prediction.
Enhanced GNN with expanded attention window and partially random embeddings.
problem Limited expressivity of traditional GNNs in distinguishing non-isomorphic graphs.
method Graph attention network with expanding attention window and partially random initial embeddings. Head dropout for regularization.
result Improved ability to differentiate between non-isomorphic graphs.
GSA-Nets apply group equivariance to self-attention for vision tasks.
problem Improving self-attention networks for vision tasks.
method Define group-equivariant positional encodings.
result GSA-Nets outperform non-equivariant self-attention networks on vision benchmarks.
New interpretation of attention in Transformers and Graph Attention Networks.
problem Understanding and improving attention mechanisms in deep learning models.
method Decomposed attention into a kernel and a normalization term; generalized the kernel function and norm.
result Generalized attention leads to better performance on various tasks.
AGNN improves network localization accuracy by 37-53% in NLOS conditions.
problem Massive network localization under Non-Line-of-Sight conditions.
method Attentional Graph Neural Network (AGNN) with Adjacency Learning Module (ALM) and Multiple Graph Attention Layers (MGAL).
result Significant improvement in localization accuracy, approaching fundamental lower bounds.
Researchers improve transformer networks' optimization and understanding.
problem Improving the understanding and optimization of transformer networks.
method Introducing a convex alternative to the self-attention mechanism and reformulating the training problem as a convex optimization problem.
result Revealed an implicit regularization mechanism that promotes sparsity across tokens.
New neural network improves audio classification accuracy.
problem Challenging audio classification problem in pattern recognition.
method Introduces a Classifier-Attention-Based Convolutional Neural Network (CAB-CNN) with an attention mechanism to reduce classifier complexity.
result Significantly improves audio classification performance, achieving more than 10% improvements.
Models use embeddings and attention for better claim severity prediction.
problem Improving predictive modeling of claim severity with categorical data.
method Developed neural networks and attention-based architectures with embeddings.
result Attention-based models enhance predictive performance with contextual augmentation.
Unified perspective on Hopfield networks with attention module.
problem Understanding and optimizing Hopfield networks with attention mechanisms.
method Study of BM counterparts of modern Hopfield networks and their salient properties.
result Introduction of AttnBM with tractable likelihood and gradient.
MAGNA improves graph neural networks by incorporating multi-hop context information.
problem Limited context in current graph neural networks.
method Diffuses attention scores across the network, accounting for all paths between nodes.
result State-of-the-art performance on node classification and knowledge graph completion benchmarks.
Deep neural networks, including recurrent networks, have been successfully applied to human activity recognition. Unfortunately, the final representation learned by recurrent networks might encode some noise (irrelevant signal components, unimportant sensor modalities, etc.). Besides, it is difficult to interpret the r…
As an important part of speech recognition technology, automatic speech keyword recognition has been intensively studied in recent years. Such technology becomes especially pivotal under situations with limited infrastructures and computational resources, such as voice command recognition in vehicles and robot interact…
Pyramid Attention Networks improve image restoration by leveraging self-similarities across scales.
problem Lack of full exploitation of self-similarities in image restoration by recent deep learning methods.
method Introduces a Pyramid Attention module that processes multi-scale feature correspondences to borrow clean signals from coarser levels.
result Pyramid Attention module achieves state-of-the-art results in various image restoration tasks.
Generative adversarial networks with attention improve financial time series simulation.
problem Limited real financial data for training and evaluation of trading strategies.
method Two generative adversarial networks (GANs) using convolutional networks with attention and transformers.
result Attention-based GANs better reproduce stylized facts and smooth returns autocorrelation.
Attention networks show promise for both vision and language tasks, by emphasizing relationships between constituent elements through weighting functions. Such elements could be regions in an image output by a region proposal network, or words in a sentence, represented by word embedding. Thus far the learning of atten…
Attention mechanisms have been boosting the performance of deep learning models on a wide range of applications, ranging from speech understanding to program induction. However, despite experiments from psychology which suggest that attention plays an essential role in visual reasoning, the full potential of attention …
We aim to better understand attention over nodes in graph neural networks (GNNs) and identify factors influencing its effectiveness. We particularly focus on the ability of attention GNNs to generalize to larger, more complex or noisy graphs. Motivated by insights from the work on Graph Isomorphism Networks, we design …
ResGCN detects anomalies in attributed networks by capturing sparsity and nonlinearity.
problem Detecting anomalous nodes in attributed networks.
method Attention-based deep residual modeling using Graph Convolutional Networks.
result ResGCN effectively detects anomalies in attributed networks.
Network embedding represents nodes in a continuous vector space and preserves structure information from the Network. Existing methods usually adopt a "one-size-fits-all" approach when concerning multi-scale structure information, such as first- and second-order proximity of nodes, ignoring the fact that different scal…
Self-attention networks localize when eigenspectrum variance is small.
problem Self-attention mechanisms can lead to rank and entropy collapses, reducing model expressivity and trainability.
method Characterized attention localization using query-key eigenspectrum variance.
result Small eigenspectrum variance prevents both rank and entropy collapses, improving model performance.
Modern deep learning approaches have achieved groundbreaking performance in modeling and classifying sequential data. Specifically, attention networks constitute the state-of-the-art paradigm for capturing long temporal dynamics. This paper examines the efficacy of this paradigm in the challenging task of emotion recog…
Most previous studies on multi-agent reinforcement learning focus on deriving decentralized and cooperative policies to maximize a common reward and rarely consider the transferability of trained policies to new tasks. This prevents such policies from being applied to more complex multi-agent tasks. To resolve these li…
Novel GNN model tackles few-shot learning with improved performance.
problem Few-shot learning with GNN suffers from over-fitting and over-smoothing.
method Proposes Attentive GNN with triple-attention mechanism.
result Improves GNN performance for few-shot learning tasks.
Attention mechanisms in deep neural networks have achieved excellent performance on sequence-prediction tasks. Here, we show that these recently-proposed attention-based mechanisms---in particular, the Transformer with its parallelizable self-attention layers, and the Memory Fusion Network with attention across modalit…