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The study reveals how attention paths in Transformers influence learning outcomes.

problem Understanding the theoretical basis of Transformers' performance.
method Developed a statistical mechanics theory for a simplified attention network.
result The predictor statistics are influenced by the combination of attention paths.

SigMA uses signatures and attention to estimate parameters in fBm-driven SDEs.

problem Estimating parameters in SDEs driven by fBm is challenging due to non-Markovian and semimartingale issues.
method SigMA integrates path signatures with multi-head self-attention, using convolutional and MLP layers.
result SigMA outperforms other methods in accuracy, robustness, and model compactness.

A new network learns to prioritize messages for efficient multi-robot path planning.

problem Efficient path planning and coordination for large-scale multi-robot systems.
method Message-Aware Graph Attention Network (MAGAT) incorporating attention mechanisms.
result MAGAT achieves performance close to a coupled centralized expert algorithm.

New method for learning on heterogeneous graphs without meta-paths.

problem Learning on heterogeneous graphs is sensitive to meta-paths choice, leading to poor performance.
method Decompose heterogeneous graph into homogeneous relation-type graphs, combine higher-order representations, use attention mechanisms.
result Our model outperforms state-of-the-art baselines in vertex classification tasks on heterogeneous graph datasets.

Transformers can solve complex filtering problems for non-Gaussian signals.

problem Non-linear and non-Markovian filtering problems for conditionally Gaussian signals.
method Continuous-time transformer models called filterformers.
result Filterformers can approximate the conditional law of non-Markovian and conditionally Gaussian signal processes.

In this paper we use a time-evolving graph which consists of a sequence of graph snapshots over time to model many real-world networks. We study the path classification problem in a time-evolving graph, which has many applications in real-world scenarios, for example, predicting path failure in a telecommunication netw…

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Dupire's functional Itô calculus provides an alternative approach to the classical Malliavin calculus for the computation of sensitivities, also called Greeks, of path-dependent derivatives prices. In this paper, we introduce a measure of path-dependence of functionals within the functional Itô calculus framework. Name…

2013-11-15abs ↗pdf ↗

Paper proposes HIDAM model to improve MSE default risk assessment using heterogeneous information networks.

problem Default risk assessment for MSEs due to lack of credit information and diverse financial activities.
method HIDAM model incorporating heterogeneous information networks with multi-typed nodes and links, extracting interactive information through meta-paths, and using a hierarchical attention mechanism.
result HIDAM model outperforms state-of-the-art competitors on real-world banking data.

Much of the recent work on learning molecular representations has been based on Graph Convolution Networks (GCN). These models rely on local aggregation operations and can therefore miss higher-order graph properties. To remedy this, we propose Path-Augmented Graph Transformer Networks (PAGTN) that are explicitly built…

2019-05-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Transformer adapts to graphs with adaptive attention and auto-regressive decoding.

problem Transformers struggle with graph data due to non-sequential nature.
method Proposes GRAT, a Transformer variant with adaptive attention and auto-regressive decoding.
result GRAT achieves state-of-the-art performance on molecule property predictions and generation tasks.

Generative models use kernel smoothing for conditioning on small example sets.

problem Improving generative models' performance with limited conditioning examples.
method Showed that cross-attention conditioning is equivalent to kernel smoothing, specifically a Nadaraya--Watson kernel smoother.
result The approach predicts and confirms three failure regimes for kernel-based conditioning.

A new system recommends specific knowledge concepts in MOOCs based on student interests.

problem MOOCs recommend courses but ignore specific knowledge concepts interests.
method End-to-end graph neural network (ACKRec) that combines content and context information.
result ACKRec effectively recommends knowledge concepts to MOOC students.

Generalized are the investigated in other works of the author transports along paths in fibre bundles to transports along arbitrary maps in them. Their structure and some properties are studied. Special attention is paid to the linear case and the case when the map's domain is a Cartesian product of two sets. Also cons…

1997-09-20abs ↗pdf ↗

ie-HGCN addresses HIN challenges by efficiently learning node representations.

problem Lack of flexibility in exploring meta-paths and high computational complexity in HIN GCN methods.
method Hierarchical aggregation architecture that automatically extracts useful meta-paths and reduces computational cost.
result ie-HGCN outperforms state-of-the-art methods on real network datasets.

Paper proposes a method to evaluate SME credit risk using meta paths.

problem Evaluate credit risk of small and medium-sized enterprises with limited data.
method Exploits the representative power of information networks and meta paths to infer SME financial status.
result Meta path feature effectively identifies SMEs with credit risks.

A new router uses attention-based reinforcement learning to solve detailed routing problems efficiently.

problem Solving detailed routing in integrated circuits while adhering to complex design rules.
method Attention-based reinforcement learning applied to track-assignment detailed routing.
result The attention router achieves over 100x acceleration compared to a genetic router without sacrificing solution quality.

A brain-inspired spiking Transformer reduces energy consumption and enhances interpretability.

problem Energy inefficiency and lack of interpretability in Transformer models.
method Spiking STDP Transformer using spike-timing-dependent plasticity (STDP) for self-attention.
result Achieves 94.35% and 78.08% accuracy on CIFAR-10 and CIFAR-100 datasets respectively, with 88.47% energy reduction.

A new method for name disambiguation in academic networks using multi-view attention and recurrent neural networks.

problem Disambiguating authors with the same name in large-scale academic networks.
method Multi-view Attention-based Pairwise Recurrent Neural Network (MA-PairRNN) that divides papers into blocks based on author attributes and merges blocks of the same author.
result MA-PairRNN significantly improves name disambiguation performance on real-world datasets.

Unified theory explains two failure modes of deep transformers and provides initialisation guidelines.

problem Two failure modes (rank collapse and entropy collapse) of self-attention layers in deep transformers.
method Analytical theory of signal propagation through deep transformers, using the Random Energy Model analogy.
result Simple algorithm to compute trainability diagrams for correct initialisation hyper-parameters.

Transformers learn multi-step reasoning through gradient descent.

problem Understanding how transformers solve symbolic multi-step reasoning tasks.
method Theoretical analysis of gradient descent dynamics and multi-phase training.
result Trained one-layer transformers can solve both backward and forward reasoning tasks with generalization guarantees.

New imputation strategies improve signature models for irregular time series.

problem Applying signature models to irregular time series requires continuous path construction.
method Characterized imputation as a problem, evaluated various strategies, proposed GP-PoM.
result Gaussian process adapters improve predictive performance and robustness.

Flow prediction (e.g., crowd flow, traffic flow) with features of spatial-temporal is increasingly investigated in AI research field. It is very challenging due to the complicated spatial dependencies between different locations and dynamic temporal dependencies among different time intervals. Although measurements of …

2019-12-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Rough Transformers improve time series modeling with lower costs and better performance.

problem Inefficient modeling of irregularly sampled time series data.
method Signature patching for continuous-time representations, reducing computational costs.
result Rough Transformers outperform vanilla Transformers and Neural ODE models.

A new method extracts events and their arguments efficiently from text.

problem Efficiently extract event information from texts with long-range dependencies and associations.
method Graph Convolutional Networks with shortest dependency paths to capture syntactic relationships.
result Significant improvement over state-of-the-art methods.

This research develops a new model for cyber risk and insurance pricing.

problem Accurate calculation of aggregate losses in cyber insurance pricing.
method A path-based k-generation risk contagion model in a tree-shaped network structure.
result Explicit expressions for mean and variance of local loss on a single path.