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20202026
most citedcosFormer: Rethinking Softmax in Attention

65 citations · 137 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CL2026

Hybrid Gated Attention

Zekun Zhou, Ruobing Xie, Lanrui Wang +1

Gated attention is an effective approach to mitigate attention sinks and enhance the representational capacity of attention. To further extend its effectiveness-efficiency Pareto f…

cs.CL2024

Various Lengths, Constant Speed: Efficient Language Modeling with Lightning Attention

Zhen Qin, Weigao Sun, Dong Li +3

We present Lightning Attention, the first linear attention implementation that maintains a constant training speed for various sequence lengths under fixed memory consumption. Due…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

HGRN2: Gated Linear RNNs with State Expansion

Zhen Qin, Songlin Yang, Weixuan Sun +4

Hierarchically gated linear RNN (HGRN, \citealt{HGRN}) has demonstrated competitive training speed and performance in language modeling while offering efficient inference. However,…

cs.CL2024★ 1 cited

CO2: Efficient Distributed Training with Full Communication-Computation Overlap

Weigao Sun, Zhen Qin, Weixuan Sun +5

The fundamental success of large language models hinges upon the efficacious implementation of large-scale distributed training techniques. Nevertheless, building a vast, high-perf…

cs.CL2024★ 2 cited

Lightning Attention-2: A Free Lunch for Handling Unlimited Sequence Lengths in Large Language Models

Zhen Qin, Weigao Sun, Dong Li +3

Linear attention is an efficient attention mechanism that has recently emerged as a promising alternative to conventional softmax attention. With its ability to process tokens in l…

cs.CV2023

All-pairs Consistency Learning for Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

Weixuan Sun, Yanhao Zhang, Zhen Qin +5

In this work, we propose a new transformer-based regularization to better localize objects for Weakly supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS). In image-level WSSS, Class Activation…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Linearized Relative Positional Encoding

Zhen Qin, Weixuan Sun, Kaiyue Lu +6

Relative positional encoding is widely used in vanilla and linear transformers to represent positional information. However, existing encoding methods of a vanilla transformer are…

cs.CL2023★ 6 cited

TransNormerLLM: A Faster and Better Large Language Model with Improved TransNormer

Zhen Qin, Dong Li, Weigao Sun +8

We present TransNormerLLM, the first linear attention-based Large Language Model (LLM) that outperforms conventional softmax attention-based models in terms of both accuracy and ef…

cs.CV2023★ 16 cited

An Alternative to WSSS? An Empirical Study of the Segment Anything Model (SAM) on Weakly-Supervised Semantic Segmentation Problems

Weixuan Sun, Zheyuan Liu, Yanhao Zhang +2

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has demonstrated exceptional performance and versatility, making it a promising tool for various related tasks. In this report, we explore the appl…

cs.CL2023★ 5 cited

Toeplitz Neural Network for Sequence Modeling

Zhen Qin, Xiaodong Han, Weixuan Sun +6

Sequence modeling has important applications in natural language processing and computer vision. Recently, the transformer-based models have shown strong performance on various seq…

cs.CV2023★ 6 cited

Candidate Set Re-ranking for Composed Image Retrieval with Dual Multi-modal Encoder

Zheyuan Liu, Weixuan Sun, Damien Teney +1

Composed image retrieval aims to find an image that best matches a given multi-modal user query consisting of a reference image and text pair. Existing methods commonly pre-compute…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Learning Audio-Visual Source Localization via False Negative Aware Contrastive Learning

Weixuan Sun, Jiayi Zhang, Jianyuan Wang +6

Self-supervised audio-visual source localization aims to locate sound-source objects in video frames without extra annotations. Recent methods often approach this goal with the hel…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

Bi-directional Training for Composed Image Retrieval via Text Prompt Learning

Zheyuan Liu, Weixuan Sun, Yicong Hong +2

Composed image retrieval searches for a target image based on a multi-modal user query comprised of a reference image and modification text describing the desired changes. Existing…

cs.CV2023★ 12 cited

Audio-Visual Segmentation with Semantics

Jinxing Zhou, Xuyang Shen, Jianyuan Wang +8

We propose a new problem called audio-visual segmentation (AVS), in which the goal is to output a pixel-level map of the object(s) that produce sound at the time of the image frame…

cs.CL2022

The Devil in Linear Transformer

Zhen Qin, XiaoDong Han, Weixuan Sun +4

Linear transformers aim to reduce the quadratic space-time complexity of vanilla transformers. However, they usually suffer from degraded performances on various tasks and corpus.…

cs.CV2022★ 2 cited

Linear Video Transformer with Feature Fixation

Kaiyue Lu, Zexiang Liu, Jianyuan Wang +8

Vision Transformers have achieved impressive performance in video classification, while suffering from the quadratic complexity caused by the Softmax attention mechanism. Some stud…

cs.CL2022★ 12 cited

Neural Architecture Search on Efficient Transformers and Beyond

Zexiang Liu, Dong Li, Kaiyue Lu +4

Recently, numerous efficient Transformers have been proposed to reduce the quadratic computational complexity of standard Transformers caused by the Softmax attention. However, mos…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Audio-Visual Segmentation

Jinxing Zhou, Jianyuan Wang, Jiayi Zhang +7

We propose to explore a new problem called audio-visual segmentation (AVS), in which the goal is to output a pixel-level map of the object(s) that produce sound at the time of the…

cs.CV2022★ 1 cited

Vicinity Vision Transformer

Weixuan Sun, Zhen Qin, Hui Deng +7

Vision transformers have shown great success on numerous computer vision tasks. However, its central component, softmax attention, prohibits vision transformers from scaling up to…

cs.CL2022★ 65 cited

cosFormer: Rethinking Softmax in Attention

Zhen Qin, Weixuan Sun, Hui Deng +6

Transformer has shown great successes in natural language processing, computer vision, and audio processing. As one of its core components, the softmax attention helps to capture l…

cs.CV2020★ 1 cited

3D Guided Weakly Supervised Semantic Segmentation

Weixuan Sun, Jing Zhang, Nick Barnes

Pixel-wise clean annotation is necessary for fully-supervised semantic segmentation, which is laborious and expensive to obtain. In this paper, we propose a weakly supervised 2D se…