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48 results for hard attention

Saccader improves hard attention models for vision tasks.

problem Challenges in training hard attention models with class label supervision.
method Proposes Saccader, a novel hard attention model trained with only class labels and policy gradient optimization.
result Achieves 75% top-1 and 91% top-5 accuracy while attending to less than one-third of the image.

We use Bayesian optimal experimental design to generate near-optimal attention sequences for faster hard attention training.

problem Training hard attention mechanisms is computationally expensive and high-variance.
method We frame hard attention as a BOED problem and use approximation methods from BOED to generate near-optimal attention sequences.
result Near-optimal attention sequences can speed up hard attention training and be reused by other networks.

There has recently been significant interest in hard attention models for tasks such as object recognition, visual captioning and speech recognition. Hard attention can offer benefits over soft attention such as decreased computational cost, but training hard attention models can be difficult because of the discrete la…

2017-05-16abs ↗pdf ↗

Neural attention has become central to many state-of-the-art models in natural language processing and related domains. Attention networks are an easy-to-train and effective method for softly simulating alignment; however, the approach does not marginalize over latent alignments in a probabilistic sense. This property …

2018-07-10abs ↗pdf ↗

The paper explores how sinks and diagonal patterns prevent attention oversmoothing.

problem Preventing attention oversmoothing in neural networks.
method Analyzing geometric conditions and conditions for dense vs. sparse attention, proving equivalence between sinks and hard attention switch, and comparing the costs of sinks vs. diagonal patterns.
result Sinks and diagonal patterns effectively prevent attention oversmoothing, and diagonal patterns provide a more flexible approach.

End-to-end TTS framework uses hard alignment to improve accuracy.

problem End-to-end TTS systems struggle with accurate alignment between input text and output acoustic features.
method Proposes a constrained alignment scheme with hard monotonic alignments, marginalized during training.
result Improves alignment learning and prediction in end-to-end TTS systems.

Catastrophic forgetting occurs when a neural network loses the information learned in a previous task after training on subsequent tasks. This problem remains a hurdle for artificial intelligence systems with sequential learning capabilities. In this paper, we propose a task-based hard attention mechanism that preserve…

2018-01-04abs ↗pdf ↗

Memory networks are neural networks with an explicit memory component that can be both read and written to by the network. The memory is often addressed in a soft way using a softmax function, making end-to-end training with backpropagation possible. However, this is not computationally scalable for applications which …

2016-05-24abs ↗pdf ↗

This research explores various sampling methods and probability distributions for hard alignment in sequence-to-sequence TTS synthesis.

problem Improving alignment accuracy in sequence-to-sequence text-to-speech synthesis.
method Investigated various sampling methods (greedy, beam, random) and probability distributions (Bernoulli, Concrete) for hard alignment.
result Deterministic search is more preferable than stochastic search for natural alignment transition.

A new dynamic attention model improves vehicle routing problem solutions.

problem Vehicle routing problems (VRP) are NP-hard and challenging to solve.
method Dynamic attention model with a dynamic encoder-decoder architecture.
result The model outperforms previous methods and shows good generalization.

In this paper we take a problem of unsupervised nodes clustering on graphs and show how recent advances in attention models can be applied successfully in a "hard" regime of the problem. We propose an unsupervised algorithm that encodes Bethe Hessian embeddings by optimizing soft modularity loss and argue that our mode…

2019-05-20abs ↗pdf ↗

Meta-learning strategy improves few-shot classification performance.

problem Few-shot classification with deep neural networks struggles when labeled samples are limited.
method Proposes an easy-to-hard expert meta-training strategy to arrange training tasks based on task hardness.
result Meta-learners achieve better results with the proposed expert training strategy.

S3^3Attention improves long sequence attention with smoothed skeleton sketching.

problem Quadratic complexity of vanilla Attention makes it unsuitable for long sequence tasks.
method S3^3Attention uses smoothing and matrix sketching to balance information preservation and computation.
result S3^3Attention significantly outperforms vanilla Attention and other Attention variants.

Transformers struggle to learn Markovian dynamics, showing NP-hard optimization challenges.

problem Understanding transformers' limitations in learning Markovian dynamical functions.
method Investigated through a structured ICL setup, analyzing loss landscapes and parameter optimization.
result Recovering optimal transformer parameters for Markovian functions is NP-hard.

HardNet adds hard constraints to neural networks without sacrificing performance.

problem Ensuring adherence to input-dependent constraints in neural networks.
method Appends a differentiable enforcement layer to neural networks for end-to-end training with hard constraint guarantees.
result HardNet retains neural networks' universal approximation capabilities and enables efficient optimization.

SANs estimate feature importance in neural models, identifying interactions and high-ranked features.

problem Understanding and interpreting black-box neural network models.
method Self-Attention Network (SAN) architecture for feature importance estimation.
result SANs identify similar high-ranked features and feature interactions as other methods, improving predictive performance.

In Machine Learning, ensemble methods have been receiving a great deal of attention. Techniques such as Bagging and Boosting have been successfully applied to a variety of problems. Nevertheless, such techniques are still susceptible to the effects of noise and outliers in the training data. We propose a new method for…

2018-04-20abs ↗pdf ↗

ConViT combines CNN and ViT strengths, improving image classification.

problem Combining the strengths of CNNs and ViTs while avoiding their limitations.
method Introducing GPSA, a form of positional self-attention with a soft convolutional inductive bias.
result ConViT outperforms DeiT on ImageNet while offering improved sample efficiency.

AIMM-X monitors markets for suspicious behavior using transparent scoring.

problem Detecting market manipulation from benign mechanisms.
method Combines microstructure signals and public attention signals for anomaly detection.
result Transparent scoring allows tracing and understanding flagged windows.

We present a method to stop the evaluation of a prediction process when the result of the full evaluation is obvious. This trait is highly desirable in prediction tasks where a predictor evaluates all its features for every example in large datasets. We observe that some examples are easier to classify than others, a p…

2012-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

This research predicts vehicle movements by analyzing their intentions relative to road lanes.

problem Accurately forecasting vehicles' future movements for safe autonomous driving.
method LSTM networks with attention mechanisms applied to spatio-temporal graphs of road lanes.
result The model outperforms other state-of-the-art models in several metrics.

This paper defends SVMs against poisoning attacks using DBSCAN and hardness proofs.

problem Adversarial injection of specially crafted samples into training data to misclassify SVMs.
method Two strategies: robust SVM algorithms and data sanitization (DBSCAN).
result Proves hardness of simple SVM problem and effectiveness of DBSCAN for poisoning attacks.

Graph Neural Network (GNN) research has concentrated on improving convolutional layers, with little attention paid to developing graph pooling layers. Yet pooling layers can enable GNNs to reason over abstracted groups of nodes instead of single nodes. To close this gap, we propose a graph pooling layer relying on the …

2019-05-27abs ↗pdf ↗

A new method for document network embedding interprets and generalizes well.

problem Lack of interpretability and generalization to new documents in existing methods.
method Introduces Topic-Word Attention (TWA) and Inductive Document Network Embedding (IDNE) to generate document representations.
result Achieves state-of-the-art performance on various networks and produces meaningful representations.

GAttNHP predicts future events in temporal knowledge graphs by encoding long-range dependencies and handling mutual excitation.

problem Forecasting future events in temporal knowledge graphs due to long-range dependencies, mutual excitation, and heavy-tailed inter-arrival times.
method GAttNHP uses a self-attention encoder, semantic soft-grouping, and NCQ regression to address these issues.
result GAttNHP improves entity and time prediction on six benchmark TKG datasets compared to state-of-the-art baselines.

Neural attention (NA) has become a key component of sequence-to-sequence models that yield state-of-the-art performance in as hard tasks as abstractive document summarization (ADS) and video captioning (VC). NA mechanisms perform inference of context vectors; these constitute weighted sums of deterministic input sequen…

2018-05-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep neural networks excel in regimes with large amounts of data, but tend to struggle when data is scarce or when they need to adapt quickly to changes in the task. In response, recent work in meta-learning proposes training a meta-learner on a distribution of similar tasks, in the hopes of generalization to novel but…

2017-07-11abs ↗pdf ↗

Deep reinforcement learning (DeepRL) agents surpass human-level performance in many tasks. However, the direct mapping from states to actions makes it hard to interpret the rationale behind the decision-making of the agents. In contrast to previous a-posteriori methods for visualizing DeepRL policies, in this work, we …

2018-12-29abs ↗pdf ↗

Transformers can be hard to interpret due to complex optima.

problem Interpretability methods fail to capture the full complexity of Transformer models.
method Theoretical analysis and synthetic experiments on Dyck language learning.
result Attention patterns can be nearly randomized while preserving network functionality.

This review analyzes recent advances in solving index tracking problems.

problem Creating a portfolio that closely follows a specific index with lower costs.
method Systematic review of mathematical approaches and metaheuristics.
result Metaheuristics have been extensively applied and improved in solving index tracking problems.

Improved text summarization using neural semantic encoders with hierarchical structure.

problem Capturing long-term dependencies in text summarization.
method Proposed a novel hierarchical Neural Semantic Encoder (NSE) model augmented with lemma and PoS tags.
result Significantly outperformed state-of-the-art models in ROUGE metric.

Reservoir Memory Machines solve benchmark tasks faster than Neural Turing Machines.

problem Training Neural Turing Machines is hard and limits their applicability.
method Proposes Reservoir Memory Machines, combining neural network flexibility with Turing machine capabilities, but with faster training via alignment and linear regression.
result Reservoir Memory Machines solve benchmark tasks as well as Neural Turing Machines but are much faster to train.

Reformulates binary classification on manifolds using Yang-Mills-Higgs theory.

problem Binary classification on non-contractible spaces.
method Formulates binary classification as a Yang-Mills-Higgs variational problem, encoding data as a functor.
result Reveals a geometric interpretation of binary classification and solves XOR on the torus.

It is well known that most of the common clustering objectives are NP-hard to optimize. In practice, however, clustering is being routinely carried out. One approach for providing theoretical understanding of this seeming discrepancy is to come up with notions of clusterability that distinguish realistically interestin…

2015-10-19abs ↗pdf ↗

New models improve morpheme segmentation in low-resource languages.

problem Improving morpheme segmentation in low-resource languages.
method Two new models: LSTM pointer-generator and sequence-to-sequence with hard monotonic attention.
result Novel models outperform existing ones by up to 11.4% accuracy in low-resource settings.