DAGR improves navigation by refining goal representations conditioned on the current state.
problem Goal-conditioned reinforcement learning lacks state awareness, leading to inefficient policy recovery.
method DAGR refines static goal embeddings into state-conditioned ones using gated cross-attention with a state-goal discrepancy map.
result DAGR improves navigation tasks on OGBench, matching or outperforming base methods.
Study improves stock movement prediction using multimodal data.
problem Inaccurate stock movement prediction due to incomplete multimodal data integration.
method Introduces MSGCA framework for robust multimodal fusion.
result MSGCA framework outperforms existing methods by 21.7% on multimodal datasets.
Improved GRU model with multi-head cross-attention enhances stock prediction accuracy.
problem Inaccurate stock prediction due to complex market dynamics and data sparsity.
method Enhanced GRU with multi-head cross-attention for better historical information selection and latent market state learning.
result The proposed MCI-GRU model outperforms state-of-the-art techniques in multiple metrics.
New framework shows cross-attention improves multi-modal in-context learning.
problem Understanding multi-modal in-context learning in neural networks.
method Mathematical framework and linearized cross-attention mechanism.
result Cross-attention mechanism is provably optimal for multi-modal in-context learning.
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.
Single-head attention approximates any function under various norms.
problem Universal approximation of functions using attention mechanisms.
method Interpreting attention as partitioning and summing linear transformations.
result Single-head attention can approximate any continuous function under L∞-norm and Lebesgue integrable functions under Lp-norm. Conformer encoder reverses sequence in time dimension, affecting decoder training.
problem Reversal of sequence in Conformer encoder impacts decoder training.
method Analyzed initial behavior of decoder cross-attention and proposed methods to avoid flipping.
result Self-attention module of Conformer starts dominating, allowing only reversed information to pass.
AutoAnchor uses cross-attention to improve text-to-image model unlearning.
problem Mitigating harmful or copyrighted content in text-to-image models.
method Two-stage framework that automatically synthesizes manifold-proximal anchors using cross-attention consistency loss.
result Effective robust and unbiased unlearning across various baselines.
Recent state-of-the-art natural language understanding models, such as BERT and XLNet, score a pair of sentences (A and B) using multiple cross-attention operations - a process in which each word in sentence A attends to all words in sentence B and vice versa. As a result, computing the similarity between a query sente…
New model recognizes emotions with missing modalities, improving accuracy.
problem Handling missing modalities in emotion recognition.
method Transformer-based architecture with cross-attention and self-attention mechanisms.
result Improvement of 37% in predicting arousal values and 30% in valence values compared to baseline.
Ground-A-Video edits videos without training, preserving intended changes.
problem Complex multi-attribute video editing with omitted or wrong changes.
method Grounding-guided video-to-video translation with Cross-Frame Gated Attention.
result Zero-shot multi-attribute video editing with improved accuracy and frame consistency.
X-Trend quickly adapts to new financial regimes, increasing Sharpe ratio by 18.9%.
problem Adapting to rapidly changing financial market conditions.
method Few-shot learning and cross-attention mechanism.
result X-Trend increases Sharpe ratio by 18.9% over a neural forecaster and 10-fold over a conventional strategy.
Abstractor enhances Transformers for relational reasoning, improving sample efficiency and performance.
problem Improving sample efficiency and performance in relational tasks.
method Introduces Abstractor module with relational cross-attention to enable explicit relational reasoning.
result Dramatic improvements in sample efficiency and performance on various relational tasks.
The paper studies 4-qubit Clifford states and their properties.
problem Understanding the set and properties of 4-qubit Clifford states.
method Analyzing the 293760 4-qubit Clifford states, splitting them into 18 groups, and studying the action of CNOT gates and local gates.
result There are 293760 4-qubit Clifford states with specific entanglement entropies, and any pair can be connected with local gates and at most 3 CNOT gates.
Improved logistic MoE with sigmoid gate shows better sample efficiency.
problem Improving sample efficiency in logistic MoE models.
method Comprehensive analysis of multinomial logistic MoE with modified sigmoid gate, incorporating temperature parameter and using Euclidean score.
result The sigmoid gate leads to lower sample complexity than softmax gate for both parameter and expert estimation.
New method prepares 3-qubit states using local gates and controlled-Z gates.
problem Preparation of 3-qubit states using quantum gates.
method Uses Ry(θ) gates and controlled-Z gates, with an optimal number of controlled-Z gates. result Optimal number of controlled-Z gates for preparing 3-qubit states is four. Sigmoid gating is more sample efficient than softmax in mixture of experts.
problem Softmax gating leads to unnecessary competition among experts, causing representation collapse.
method Theoretical analysis of a regression framework with mixture of experts, identifying identifiability conditions and convergence rates.
result Sigmoid gating requires fewer samples to achieve the same expert estimation error as softmax gating.
In quantum computation, series of quantum gates have to be arranged in a predefined sequence that led to a quantum circuit in order to solve a particular problem. What if the sequence of quantum gates is known but both the problem to be solved and the outcome of the so defined quantum circuit remain in the shadow? This…
RB-Modulation trains free diffusion models without external adapters.
problem Training-free personalization of diffusion models with style and content control.
method Stochastic optimal control with a style descriptor and cross-attention aggregation.
result Precise content and style extraction and control without external adapters.
Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) infers the long term dependency through a cell state maintained by the input and the forget gate structures, which models a gate output as a value in [0,1] through a sigmoid function. However, due to the graduality of the sigmoid function, the sigmoid gate is not flexible in representing m…
Gated attention improves model curvature, enhancing performance on nonlinear tasks.
problem Understanding the geometric implications of gating in attention mechanisms.
method Modeling attention outputs as Gaussian distributions and analyzing Fisher--Rao geometry.
result Gated attention enables non-flat geometries, including positively curved manifolds.
Gated attention improves performance by using a hierarchical mixture of experts.
problem Improving performance of self-attention mechanisms in Transformers.
method Rigorously show that gated attention can be modeled as a hierarchical mixture of experts, providing a theoretical justification for its benefits.
result Gated attention is more sample-efficient than multi-head self-attention, requiring fewer data points to achieve the same estimation error.
Given the success of the gated recurrent unit, a natural question is whether all the gates of the long short-term memory (LSTM) network are necessary. Previous research has shown that the forget gate is one of the most important gates in the LSTM. Here we show that a forget-gate-only version of the LSTM with chrono-ini…
Improved HMoE models using Laplace gating function enhance expert specialization and performance.
problem Improving performance of hierarchical mixture of experts models.
method Used Laplace gating function instead of Softmax in hierarchical mixture of experts models.
result Laplace gating function accelerates expert convergence and enhances specialization.
Gating units in GRUs and LSTMs create slow modes and control phase-space complexity.
problem Training challenges in RNNs due to exploding or vanishing gradients.
method Random matrix theory and mean-field theory applied to GRUs and LSTMs.
result Gates in GRUs and LSTMs lead to accumulation of slow modes and control phase-space complexity.
The paper evaluates three variants of the Gated Recurrent Unit (GRU) in recurrent neural networks (RNN) by reducing parameters in the update and reset gates. We evaluate the three variant GRU models on MNIST and IMDB datasets and show that these GRU-RNN variant models perform as well as the original GRU RNN model while…
This study analyzes communication constraints in MoE architectures using information theory.
problem Communication constraints in Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architectures.
method Developed a rate-distortion characterization of finite-rate gating in MoE architectures using information theory.
result Yielded capacity-aware limits for communication-constrained MoE systems.
Bayesian methods have been successfully applied to sparsify weights of neural networks and to remove structure units from the networks, e. g. neurons. We apply and further develop this approach for gated recurrent architectures. Specifically, in addition to sparsification of individual weights and neurons, we propose t…
GLCB uses Gated Linear Networks for online contextual bandits.
problem Online learning in contextual bandits with uncertainty estimation.
method Gated Linear Networks (GLNs) for prediction and uncertainty estimation.
result GLCB outperforms state-of-the-art methods in online contextual bandits.
Paper connects MoE and self-attention, proposing active-attention.
problem Improving efficiency and performance of self-attention mechanisms.
method Established connection between MoE and self-attention, analyzed quadratic gating functions, proposed active-attention mechanism.
result Active-attention outperforms standard self-attention in various tasks.
Gated recurrent neural networks have achieved remarkable results in the analysis of sequential data. Inside these networks, gates are used to control the flow of information, allowing to model even very long-term dependencies in the data. In this paper, we investigate whether the original gate equation (a linear projec…
Edge devices adapt pre-trained models to local data without backpropagation.
problem Adapting pre-trained models to edge devices' local data distributions.
method Feed-forward latent domain adaptation using cross-attention.
result Consistent improvements over ERM baselines and domain-supervised adaptation.
Solves challenges in estimating parameters of softmax gating Gaussian mixture models.
problem Identifiability issues and complex interactions in Gaussian mixture of experts.
method Proposes novel Voronoi loss functions and establishes convergence rates of MLE.
result Connects convergence rate of MLE to a solvability problem of polynomial equations.
A major contributing factor to the recent advances in deep neural networks is structural units that let sensory information and gradients to propagate easily. Gating is one such structure that acts as a flow control. Gates are employed in many recent state-of-the-art recurrent models such as LSTM and GRU, and feedforwa…
Recently, a lot of techniques were developed to sparsify the weights of neural networks and to remove networks' structure units, e.g. neurons. We adjust the existing sparsification approaches to the gated recurrent architectures. Specifically, in addition to the sparsification of weights and neurons, we propose sparsif…
Fast Bayesian inference with adaptable priors for real-time applications.
problem Intractable exact posterior computation limits Bayesian inference's adoption.
method Distribution Transformer architecture that learns mappings between priors and posteriors.
result Significant reduction in computation time from minutes to milliseconds.
Deep gated networks help understand training and generalization in deep learning.
problem Understanding the role of SGD in training and generalization of deep neural networks with ReLU activation.
method Developed deep gated networks (DGNs) as a framework to analyze training and generalization in DNNs with ReLU activation.
result Gate adaptation is key for generalization in deep neural networks.
Gradient Gating improves deep GNNs by modulating message passing updates.
problem Oversmoothing and performance degradation in deep GNNs.
method Gradient gating mechanism for multi-rate message passing.
result G2 framework alleviates oversmoothing and achieves state-of-the-art performance. LSTMs were introduced to combat vanishing gradients in simple RNNs by augmenting them with gated additive recurrent connections. We present an alternative view to explain the success of LSTMs: the gates themselves are versatile recurrent models that provide more representational power than previously appreciated. We do…
The paper establishes convergence rates for MoE models in classification problems.
problem Understanding the behavior of MoE models in classification settings.
method Established convergence rates for density and parameter estimation in softmax gating multinomial logistic MoE models.
result Parameter estimation rates are significantly improved with a novel modified softmax gating function.
Spatiotemporal sequence prediction is an important problem in deep learning. We study next-frame(s) video prediction using a deep-learning-based predictive coding framework that uses convolutional, long short-term memory (convLSTM) modules. We introduce a novel reduced-gate convolutional LSTM(rgcLSTM) architecture that…
New method learns operators with geometric singularities from few samples.
problem Learning operators with geometric singularities from limited data.
method Double fibration transforms and cross-attention architectures.
result Operators can be learned superalgebraically from few samples.
Improved image synthesis with user scribbles and text prompts.
problem Inadequate details in generated images due to domain shift.
method Optimization problem formulation and cross-attention for control.
result Significant improvement in user satisfaction (85.32% higher).
New insights into the top-K sparse softmax gating function for deep learning.
problem Understanding the theoretical effects of the top-K sparse softmax gating function on density and parameter estimations.
method Using a Gaussian mixture of experts, novel loss functions, and theoretical analysis.
result The convergence rates of density and parameter estimations are parametric under certain conditions, but slow under over-specified models.
Model accurately gates ocean microbes from high-frequency flow cytometry data.
problem Gating of high-frequency flow cytometry data for ocean microbes is challenging.
method Trend filtered mixture of experts with smooth parameter variation.
result Model accurately matches human-annotated gating and corrects errors.
In order to quantize the gate parameters of the LSTM (Long Short-Term Memory) neural network model with almost no recognition performance degraded, a new quantization method named Quantization Loss Re-Learn Method is proposed in this paper. The method does lossy quantization on gate parameters during training iteration…
A new method for differentiable structured sparsity improves neural network performance and sparsity.
problem Non-differentiability of structured sparsity penalties in neural networks.
method Introducing D-Gating, a differentiable approach to structured overparameterization. result The D-Gating objective converges to the L2,2/D-regularized loss and induces sparse learning dynamics. The paper analyzes the role of ReLU gates in deep learning networks.
problem Understanding the role of gates in deep learning networks.
method Developed neural path features (NPF) and neural path values (NPV) to characterize the active sub-networks during training.
result The neural path kernel associated with NPFs is a fundamental quantity that characterizes the information stored in the gates of a DNN.