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most citedRethinking Positional Encoding

30 citations · 31 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.LG2026

The Inlet Rank Collapse in Implicit Neural Representations: Diagnosis and Unified Remedy

Jianqiao Zheng, Hemanth Saratchandran, Simon Lucey

Implicit Neural Representations (INRs) have revolutionized continuous signal modeling, yet they struggle to recover fine-grained details within finite training budgets. While empir…

cs.LG2025

From Tables to Signals: Revealing Spectral Adaptivity in TabPFN

Jianqiao Zheng, Cameron Gordon, Yiping Ji +2

Task-agnostic tabular foundation models such as TabPFN have achieved impressive performance on tabular learning tasks, yet the origins of their inductive biases remain poorly under…

cs.LG2025

Cutting the Skip: Training Residual-Free Transformers

Yiping Ji, James Martens, Jianqiao Zheng +5

Transformers have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of applications, a feat often attributed to their scalability. Yet training them without skip (residual) connectio…

cs.CV2025

Structured Initialization for Vision Transformers

Jianqiao Zheng, Xueqian Li, Hemanth Saratchandran +1

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) inherently encode strong inductive biases, enabling effective generalization on small-scale datasets. In this paper, we propose integrating thi…

cs.LG2024

Rethinking Attention: Polynomial Alternatives to Softmax in Transformers

Hemanth Saratchandran, Jianqiao Zheng, Yiping Ji +2

This paper questions whether the strong performance of softmax attention in transformers stems from producing a probability distribution over inputs. Instead, we argue that softmax…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Structured Initialization for Attention in Vision Transformers

Jianqiao Zheng, Xueqian Li, Simon Lucey

The training of vision transformer (ViT) networks on small-scale datasets poses a significant challenge. By contrast, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have an architectural ind…

cs.CV2024

Convolutional Initialization for Data-Efficient Vision Transformers

Jianqiao Zheng, Xueqian Li, Simon Lucey

Training vision transformer networks on small datasets poses challenges. In contrast, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) can achieve state-of-the-art performance by leveraging th…

cs.CV2023

Robust Point Cloud Processing through Positional Embedding

Jianqiao Zheng, Xueqian Li, Sameera Ramasinghe +1

End-to-end trained per-point embeddings are an essential ingredient of any state-of-the-art 3D point cloud processing such as detection or alignment. Methods like PointNet, or the…

cs.CV2023

Fast Neural Scene Flow

Xueqian Li, Jianqiao Zheng, Francesco Ferroni +2

Neural Scene Flow Prior (NSFP) is of significant interest to the vision community due to its inherent robustness to out-of-distribution (OOD) effects and its ability to deal with d…

cs.CV2022

Trading Positional Complexity vs. Deepness in Coordinate Networks

Jianqiao Zheng, Sameera Ramasinghe, Xueqian Li +1

It is well noted that coordinate-based MLPs benefit -- in terms of preserving high-frequency information -- through the encoding of coordinate positions as an array of Fourier feat…

cs.LG2021★ 30 cited

Rethinking Positional Encoding

Jianqiao Zheng, Sameera Ramasinghe, Simon Lucey

It is well noted that coordinate based MLPs benefit -- in terms of preserving high-frequency information -- through the encoding of coordinate positions as an array of Fourier feat…