2 papers
cs.LG2026
AdaSplash-2: Faster Differentiable Sparse Attention
Nuno Gonçalves, Hugo Pitorro, Vlad Niculae +4
Sparse attention has been proposed as a way to alleviate the quadratic cost of transformers, a central bottleneck in long-context training. A promising line of work is -entmax a…
cs.LG2025
TowerVision: Understanding and Improving Multilinguality in Vision-Language Models
André G. Viveiros, Patrick Fernandes, Saul Santos +7
Despite significant advances in vision-language models (VLMs), most existing work follows an English-centric design process, limiting their effectiveness in multilingual settings.…