Adaptive Anisotropic Attention for Axis-Structured Signals
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arXiv:2609.08788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense self-attention treats all token pairs as equally plausible before learning, an interaction-isotropic prior that can be mismatched to structured signals. For structured, low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) signals such as EEG, dependencies are organized along the electrode and time axes, and this uniform prior exposes each token to many irrelevant interactions. We introduce Adaptive Anisotropic Attention (AAA), which splits attention into two paths: a temporal path, where each token attends to the tokens of its own electrode across time, and a
Key takeaways
- arXiv:2609.08788v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dense self-attention treats all token pairs as equally plausible before learning, an interaction-isotropic prior that can be mismatched to structured signals.
- For structured, low signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) signals such as EEG, dependencies are organized along the electrode and time axes, and this uniform prior exposes each token to many irrelevant interactions.
- We introduce Adaptive Anisotropic Attention (AAA), which splits attention into two paths: a temporal path, where each token attends to the tokens of its own electrode across time, and a
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