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Conditional Positional Encoding

7 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Xiangxiang Chu et al. in Conditional Positional Encodings for Vision Transformers

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Conditional Positional Encoding, or CPE, is a type of positional encoding for vision transformers. Unlike previous fixed or learnable positional encodings, which are predefined and independent of input tokens, CPE is dynamically generated and conditioned on the local neighborhood of the input tokens. As a result, CPE aims to generalize to the input sequences that are longer than what the model has ever seen during training. CPE can also keep the desired translation-invariance in the image classification task. CPE can be implemented with a Position Encoding Generator (PEG) and incorporated into the current Transformer framework.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

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TaskPapers
Semantic Segmentation3
Image Classification2
Instance Segmentation2
Mamba2
3D Instance Segmentation1
3D Reconstruction1
3D Semantic Segmentation1
AutoML1
Classification1
Computational Efficiency1
EEG1
Eeg Decoding1
General Classification1
Handwriting generation1
Inductive Bias1
LIDAR Semantic Segmentation1
Novel View Synthesis1
Point Cloud Segmentation1
Position1
Segmentation1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Conditional Positional Encoding: 2021 to 2025, peak 3 3 0 2021: 2 papers 2021 2022: 1 paper 2022 2023: 0 papers 2023 2024: 3 papers 2024 2025: 1 paper 2025
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