Set2Seq Transformer: Temporal and Position-Aware Set Representations for Sequential Multiple-Instance Learning

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Auteurs principaux: Efthymiou, Athanasios, Rudinac, Stevan, Kackovic, Monika, Wijnberg, Nachoem, Worring, Marcel
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author Efthymiou, Athanasios
Rudinac, Stevan
Kackovic, Monika
Wijnberg, Nachoem
Worring, Marcel
author_facet Efthymiou, Athanasios
Rudinac, Stevan
Kackovic, Monika
Wijnberg, Nachoem
Worring, Marcel
contents In many real-world applications, modeling both the internal structure of sets and their temporal relationships is essential for capturing complex underlying patterns. Sequential multiple-instance learning aims to address this challenge by learning permutation-invariant representations of sets distributed across discrete timesteps. However, existing methods either focus on learning set representations at a static level, ignoring temporal dynamics, or treat sequences as ordered lists of individual elements, lacking explicit mechanisms for representing sets. Crucially, effective modeling of such sequences of sets often requires encoding both the positional ordering across timesteps and their absolute temporal values to jointly capture relative progression and temporal context. In this work, we propose Set2Seq Transformer, a novel architecture that jointly models permutation-invariant set structure and temporal dependencies by learning temporal and position-aware representations of sets within a sequence in an end-to-end multimodal manner. We evaluate our Set2Seq Transformer on two tasks that require modeling set structure alongside temporal and positional patterns, but differ significantly in domain, modality, and objective. First, we consider a fine art analysis task, modeling artists' oeuvres for predicting artistic success using a novel dataset, WikiArt-Seq2Rank. Second, we utilize our Set2Seq Transformer for short-term wildfire danger forecasting. Through extensive experimentation, we show that our Set2Seq Transformer consistently improves over traditional static multiple-instance learning methods by effectively learning permutation-invariant set, temporal, and position-aware representations across diverse domains, modalities, and tasks. We release all code and datasets at https://github.com/thefth/set2seq-transformer.
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spellingShingle Set2Seq Transformer: Temporal and Position-Aware Set Representations for Sequential Multiple-Instance Learning
Efthymiou, Athanasios
Rudinac, Stevan
Kackovic, Monika
Wijnberg, Nachoem
Worring, Marcel
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
In many real-world applications, modeling both the internal structure of sets and their temporal relationships is essential for capturing complex underlying patterns. Sequential multiple-instance learning aims to address this challenge by learning permutation-invariant representations of sets distributed across discrete timesteps. However, existing methods either focus on learning set representations at a static level, ignoring temporal dynamics, or treat sequences as ordered lists of individual elements, lacking explicit mechanisms for representing sets. Crucially, effective modeling of such sequences of sets often requires encoding both the positional ordering across timesteps and their absolute temporal values to jointly capture relative progression and temporal context. In this work, we propose Set2Seq Transformer, a novel architecture that jointly models permutation-invariant set structure and temporal dependencies by learning temporal and position-aware representations of sets within a sequence in an end-to-end multimodal manner. We evaluate our Set2Seq Transformer on two tasks that require modeling set structure alongside temporal and positional patterns, but differ significantly in domain, modality, and objective. First, we consider a fine art analysis task, modeling artists' oeuvres for predicting artistic success using a novel dataset, WikiArt-Seq2Rank. Second, we utilize our Set2Seq Transformer for short-term wildfire danger forecasting. Through extensive experimentation, we show that our Set2Seq Transformer consistently improves over traditional static multiple-instance learning methods by effectively learning permutation-invariant set, temporal, and position-aware representations across diverse domains, modalities, and tasks. We release all code and datasets at https://github.com/thefth/set2seq-transformer.
title Set2Seq Transformer: Temporal and Position-Aware Set Representations for Sequential Multiple-Instance Learning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.03404