Relational inductive biases on attention mechanisms

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Auteurs principaux: Mijangos, Víctor, Gutierrez-Vasques, Ximena, Arriola, Verónica E., Rodríguez-Domínguez, Ulises, Cervantes, Alexis, Almanzara, José Luis
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author Mijangos, Víctor
Gutierrez-Vasques, Ximena
Arriola, Verónica E.
Rodríguez-Domínguez, Ulises
Cervantes, Alexis
Almanzara, José Luis
author_facet Mijangos, Víctor
Gutierrez-Vasques, Ximena
Arriola, Verónica E.
Rodríguez-Domínguez, Ulises
Cervantes, Alexis
Almanzara, José Luis
contents Inductive learning aims to construct general models from specific examples, guided by biases that influence hypothesis selection and determine generalization capacity. In this work, we focus on characterizing the relational inductive biases present in attention mechanisms, understood as assumptions about the underlying relationships between data elements. From the perspective of geometric deep learning, we analyze the most common attention mechanisms in terms of their equivariance properties with respect to permutation subgroups, which allows us to propose a classification based on their relational biases. Under this perspective, we show that different attention layers are characterized by the underlying relationships they assume on the input data.
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spellingShingle Relational inductive biases on attention mechanisms
Mijangos, Víctor
Gutierrez-Vasques, Ximena
Arriola, Verónica E.
Rodríguez-Domínguez, Ulises
Cervantes, Alexis
Almanzara, José Luis
Machine Learning
Computation and Language
Inductive learning aims to construct general models from specific examples, guided by biases that influence hypothesis selection and determine generalization capacity. In this work, we focus on characterizing the relational inductive biases present in attention mechanisms, understood as assumptions about the underlying relationships between data elements. From the perspective of geometric deep learning, we analyze the most common attention mechanisms in terms of their equivariance properties with respect to permutation subgroups, which allows us to propose a classification based on their relational biases. Under this perspective, we show that different attention layers are characterized by the underlying relationships they assume on the input data.
title Relational inductive biases on attention mechanisms
topic Machine Learning
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.04117