arXiv Machine Learning

Theory on Attention Dynamics for Out-of-Distribution In-Context Learning

arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 8

Attention Sink in Transformers: A Survey on Utilization, Interpretation, and Mitigation

arXiv:2604. 10098v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As the foundational architecture of modern machine learning, Transformers have driven remarkable progress across diverse AI domains.

By Zunhai Su, Hengyuan Zhang, Wei Wu, Yifan Zhang, Yaxiu Liu, He Xiao, Qingyao Yang, Yuxuan Sun, Rui Yang, Chao Zhang, Jing Xiong, Hui Shen, Keyu Fan, Weihao Ye, Chaofan Tao, Taiqiang Wu, Zhongwei Wan, Tiantian Zhang, Bowen Yan, Zhen Li, Yiming Zhang, Congkai Xie, Yulei Qian, Yuchen Xie, Yik-Chung Wu, Hongxia Yang, Ngai Wong
arXiv AI
Jun 9

A Mechanistic Analysis of Adversarial Fine-tuning of Vision Transformers

arXiv:2606. 07593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The widespread use of image classification models in high-risk, real-world situations necessitates making these models robust to slight disturbances or perturbations, such as blurring or sharpening, in the input images.

By Hannah Gao (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Isha Agarwal (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Dylan Hadfield-Menell (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Rachel Ma (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)