Bidirectional Long-Range Parser for Sequential Data Understanding
Keywords: long sequence, bidirectional attention mechanism
TL;DR: Method describing a novel attention mechanism designed for long-sequence processing with proven results on multiple modalities.
Abstract: The transformer is a powerful data modelling framework responsible for remarkable performance on a wide range of tasks. However, they are limited in terms of scalability as it is suboptimal and inefficient to process long-sequence data. To this purpose we introduce BLRP (Bidirectional Long-Range Parser), a novel and versatile attention mechanism designed to increase performance and efficiency on long-sequence tasks. It leverages short and long range heuristics in the form of a local sliding window approach combined with a global bidirectional latent space synthesis technique. We show the benefits and versatility of our approach on vision and language domains by demonstrating competitive results against state-of-the-art methods on the Long-Range-Arena and CIFAR benchmarks together with ablations demonstrating the computational efficiency.
Primary Subject Area: Other
Paper Type: Research paper: up to 8 pages
Participation Mode: In-person
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Submission Number: 5
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