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48 results for long sequences

Recurrent Neural Networks (RNN), Long Short-Term Memory Networks (LSTM), and Memory Networks which contain memory are popularly used to learn patterns in sequential data. Sequential data has long sequences that hold relationships. RNN can handle long sequences but suffers from the vanishing and exploding gradient probl…

2019-04-18abs ↗pdf ↗

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.

We present the Compressive Transformer, an attentive sequence model which compresses past memories for long-range sequence learning. We find the Compressive Transformer obtains state-of-the-art language modelling results in the WikiText-103 and Enwik8 benchmarks, achieving 17.1 ppl and 0.97 bpc respectively. We also fi…

2019-11-13abs ↗pdf ↗

Skeinformer accelerates self-attention for long sequences with linear complexity.

problem Efficiency of Transformer models in processing long sequences.
method Matrix sketching and column sampling to reduce quadratic complexity to linear.
result Skeinformer outperforms alternatives with smaller time/space footprint.

Introduces Spectral Attention for better long-range time series forecasting.

problem Challenges in capturing long-range dependencies in time series forecasting.
method Spectral Attention mechanism that preserves temporal correlations and long-range dependencies.
result Achieves state-of-the-art results on 11 real-world time series datasets.

Despite recent advances in training recurrent neural networks (RNNs), capturing long-term dependencies in sequences remains a fundamental challenge. Most approaches use backpropagation through time (BPTT), which is difficult to scale to very long sequences. This paper proposes a simple method that improves the ability …

2018-03-01abs ↗pdf ↗

New Performer model tackles long-sequence protein modeling.

problem Challenges of training complex Transformer models for long sequences.
method Linearly scalable long-context Transformer architecture, Performer.
result Performer provides strong theoretical guarantees and is effective for protein sequence modeling.

Hrrformer uses HRR to speed up self-attention for long sequences.

problem Infeasibility of using transformers with very long sequence lengths.
method Re-cast self-attention using Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR).
result Achieves near state-of-the-art accuracy with O(THlogH)\mathcal{O}(T H \log H) time complexity and O(TH)\mathcal{O}(T H) space complexity.

Summarization of long sequences into a concise statement is a core problem in natural language processing, requiring non-trivial understanding of the input. Based on the promising results of graph neural networks on highly structured data, we develop a framework to extend existing sequence encoders with a graph compone…

2018-11-05abs ↗pdf ↗

Missing value imputation is a fundamental problem in spatiotemporal modeling, from motion tracking to the dynamics of physical systems. Deep autoregressive models suffer from error propagation which becomes catastrophic for imputing long-range sequences. In this paper, we take a non-autoregressive approach and propose …

2019-01-30abs ↗pdf ↗

Reinforcement learning after next-token prediction aids in learning from diverse sequence lengths.

problem Learning from sequences of varying lengths and complexity.
method Introducing a framework to study reinforcement learning with autoregressive transformers, focusing on next-token prediction and mixture distributions of short and long sequences.
result Reinforcement learning after next-token prediction enables autoregressive transformers to generalize from long sequences, even when they are rare.

Representation and learning of long-range dependencies is a central challenge confronted in modern applications of machine learning to sequence data. Yet despite the prominence of this issue, the basic problem of measuring long-range dependence, either in a given data source or as represented in a trained deep model, r…

2019-04-08abs ↗pdf ↗

We give a definition of symplectic homology for pairs of filled Liouville cobordisms, and show that it satisfies analogues of the Eilenberg-Steenrod axioms except for the dimension axiom. The resulting long exact sequence of a pair generalizes various earlier long exact sequences such as the handle attaching sequence, …

2015-11-02abs ↗pdf ↗

Compact Recurrent Transformer (CRT) improves Transformer efficiency for long sequences.

problem Efficiently scaling Transformer architecture to long sequences with limited compute resources.
method Combines shallow Transformer models with recurrent neural networks and persistent memory.
result CRT achieves comparable or superior performance to full-length Transformers with shorter segments and reduced FLOPs.

A new model improves recurrent neural networks' ability to memorize long sequences.

problem Improving recurrent neural networks' ability to memorize long sequences and extract task-relevant features.
method Proposes a Linear Memory Network with an encoding-based memorization component and a specialized training algorithm.
result Improves the final performance of recurrent neural networks when memorizing long sequences is necessary.

Learning latent representations from long text sequences is an important first step in many natural language processing applications. Recurrent Neural Networks (RNNs) have become a cornerstone for this challenging task. However, the quality of sentences during RNN-based decoding (reconstruction) decreases with the leng…

2017-08-16abs ↗pdf ↗

TRM improves long-horizon LLM RL by masking divergent sequences.

problem Long-horizon reinforcement learning with LLMs suffers from off-policy mismatch and approximation errors.
method Derives and applies trust region bounds to control divergence, proposing Trust Region Masking.
result First non-vacuous monotonic improvement guarantees for long-horizon LLM-RL.

Several machine learning problems arising in natural language processing can be modeled as a sequence labeling problem. We provide Gaussian process models based on pseudo-likelihood approximation to perform sequence labeling. Gaussian processes (GPs) provide a Bayesian approach to learning in a kernel based framework. …

2014-12-25abs ↗pdf ↗

TRM improves long-horizon reinforcement learning for LLMs by masking divergent sequences.

problem Long-horizon reinforcement learning for LLMs suffers from off-policy mismatch and approximation errors.
method Derives and applies trust region bounds to control divergence, proposing Trust Region Masking.
result First non-vacuous monotonic improvement guarantees for long-horizon LLM-RL.

In this paper we construct Cech cohomology groups that form a Gysin-type long exact sequence for principal torus bundles. This sequence is modeled on a de Rham cohomology sequence published in earlier work by Bouwknegt, Hannabuss and Mathai, which was developed to compute the global properties of T-duality in the prese…

2011-09-26abs ↗pdf ↗

AverageTime uses simple averaging to enhance long-term time series forecasting.

problem Long-term time series forecasting with improved intra-sequence and cross-channel dependencies.
method Proposes AverageTime, a simple, efficient, and scalable forecasting model that reframes channel extraction as a stackable architecture.
result AverageTime surpasses state-of-the-art models in forecasting performance with near-linear complexity.

New method improves deep learning model robustness and accuracy for long sequences.

problem Challenges in learning long-range sequence tasks using state-space models.
method Proposes a perturb-then-diagonalize (PTD) methodology to address ill-posed diagonalization problems in SSMs.
result Demonstrates improved robustness and accuracy of S5-PTD model on Long-Range Arena benchmark.

Rough Transformers improve efficiency for medical time-series data.

problem Efficiently modeling irregularly sampled, long-range time-series data.
method Introducing Rough Transformers, a Transformer variant with continuous-time representations and multi-view signature attention.
result Rough Transformers outperform vanilla Transformers while using less computational resources.

Sumformer simplifies Transformers to handle long sequences efficiently.

problem Quadratic complexity of Transformers limits their use with long sequences.
method Introducing Sumformer, a simple architecture that universally approximates equivariant sequence-to-sequence functions.
result Sumformer achieves the first universal approximation results for Linformer and Performer.

HGConv uses HRR to efficiently detect malware, outperforming existing methods.

problem Efficiently detecting malware with long sequences.
method Holographic Global Convolutional Networks (HGConv) utilizing Holographic Reduced Representations (HRR).
result Achieved state-of-the-art results on malware benchmarks.

Transformers are powerful sequence models, but require time and memory that grows quadratically with the sequence length. In this paper we introduce sparse factorizations of the attention matrix which reduce this to O(nn)O(n \sqrt{n}). We also introduce a) a variation on architecture and initialization to train deeper net…

2019-04-23abs ↗pdf ↗

Sequence models assign probabilities to variable-length sequences such as natural language texts. The ability of sequence models to capture temporal dependence can be characterized by the temporal scaling of correlation and mutual information. In this paper, we study the mutual information of recurrent neural networks …

2019-05-10abs ↗pdf ↗

Global Memory Augmentation (GMAT) improves Transformer performance on long documents.

problem Large memory requirements of Transformer pairwise dot-product attention for long sequences.
method Integrates a dense global memory of length M into sparse Transformer blocks.
result Significant improvement on various tasks, including synthetic tasks, masked language modeling, and reading comprehension.

KEDformer improves long-term time series forecasting with seasonal-trend decomposition.

problem Accurate long-term predictions in energy, finance, and meteorology.
method Knowledge extraction-driven framework integrating seasonal-trend decomposition.
result KEDformer enhances model's ability to capture short-term and long-term patterns.

Long-range correlation and fluctuation in the gold market time series of world's two leading gold consuming countries, namely China and India, are studied. For both the market series during the period 1985-2013 we observe a long-range persistence of memory in the sequences of maxima (minima) of returns in successive ti…

2015-05-17abs ↗pdf ↗

Spacetimeformer learns spatiotemporal relationships from data alone.

problem Forecasting multivariate time series with distinct spatial relationships.
method Transformers with dynamic graph connections learning interactions between space, time, and value.
result Competitive results on various time series prediction benchmarks.