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Main Authors: Zhao, Minglu, Xu, Dehong, Gao, Tao
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01548
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author Zhao, Minglu
Xu, Dehong
Gao, Tao
author_facet Zhao, Minglu
Xu, Dehong
Gao, Tao
contents Attention is a cornerstone of human cognition that facilitates the efficient extraction of information in everyday life. Recent developments in artificial intelligence like the Transformer architecture also incorporate the idea of attention in model designs. However, despite the shared fundamental principle of selectively attending to information, human attention and the Transformer model display notable differences, particularly in their capacity constraints, attention pathways, and intentional mechanisms. Our review aims to provide a comparative analysis of these mechanisms from a cognitive-functional perspective, thereby shedding light on several open research questions. The exploration encourages interdisciplinary efforts to derive insights from human attention mechanisms in the pursuit of developing more generalized artificial intelligence.
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spellingShingle From Cognition to Computation: A Comparative Review of Human Attention and Transformer Architectures
Zhao, Minglu
Xu, Dehong
Gao, Tao
Other Quantitative Biology
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Attention is a cornerstone of human cognition that facilitates the efficient extraction of information in everyday life. Recent developments in artificial intelligence like the Transformer architecture also incorporate the idea of attention in model designs. However, despite the shared fundamental principle of selectively attending to information, human attention and the Transformer model display notable differences, particularly in their capacity constraints, attention pathways, and intentional mechanisms. Our review aims to provide a comparative analysis of these mechanisms from a cognitive-functional perspective, thereby shedding light on several open research questions. The exploration encourages interdisciplinary efforts to derive insights from human attention mechanisms in the pursuit of developing more generalized artificial intelligence.
title From Cognition to Computation: A Comparative Review of Human Attention and Transformer Architectures
topic Other Quantitative Biology
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.01548