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Auteurs principaux: Chandran, Prashanth, Serifi, Agon, Gross, Markus, Bächer, Moritz
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Publié: 2025
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Accès en ligne:https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02797
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author Chandran, Prashanth
Serifi, Agon
Gross, Markus
Bächer, Moritz
author_facet Chandran, Prashanth
Serifi, Agon
Gross, Markus
Bächer, Moritz
contents We introduce Spline-based Transformers, a novel class of Transformer models that eliminate the need for positional encoding. Inspired by workflows using splines in computer animation, our Spline-based Transformers embed an input sequence of elements as a smooth trajectory in latent space. Overcoming drawbacks of positional encoding such as sequence length extrapolation, Spline-based Transformers also provide a novel way for users to interact with transformer latent spaces by directly manipulating the latent control points to create new latent trajectories and sequences. We demonstrate the superior performance of our approach in comparison to conventional positional encoding on a variety of datasets, ranging from synthetic 2D to large-scale real-world datasets of images, 3D shapes, and animations.
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spellingShingle Spline-based Transformers
Chandran, Prashanth
Serifi, Agon
Gross, Markus
Bächer, Moritz
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We introduce Spline-based Transformers, a novel class of Transformer models that eliminate the need for positional encoding. Inspired by workflows using splines in computer animation, our Spline-based Transformers embed an input sequence of elements as a smooth trajectory in latent space. Overcoming drawbacks of positional encoding such as sequence length extrapolation, Spline-based Transformers also provide a novel way for users to interact with transformer latent spaces by directly manipulating the latent control points to create new latent trajectories and sequences. We demonstrate the superior performance of our approach in comparison to conventional positional encoding on a variety of datasets, ranging from synthetic 2D to large-scale real-world datasets of images, 3D shapes, and animations.
title Spline-based Transformers
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02797