Papers › Adaptive Transformers for Learning Multimodal Representations

Adaptive Transformers for Learning Multimodal Representations

15 May 2020ACL 2020 6arXiv:2005.07486archive 2025-07-28

Prajjwal Bhargava

The usage of transformers has grown from learning about language semantics to forming meaningful visiolinguistic representations. These architectures are often over-parametrized, requiring large amounts of computation. In this work, we extend adaptive approaches to learn more about model interpretability and computational efficiency. Specifically, we study attention spans, sparse, and structured dropout methods to help understand how their attention mechanism extends for vision and language tasks. We further show that these approaches can help us learn more about how the network perceives the complexity of input sequences, sparsity preferences for different modalities, and other related phenomena.

PaperPDFConference PDFCode

In Syntology Open this paper in Syntology's Atlas, the map of the papers in Syntology's graph and their citations.

Code

prajjwal1/adaptive_transformer officialmentioned in papermentioned on GitHubpytorch report

Repository list and official/mentioned flags are the archive's, frozen 2025-07-28. Reachability, where shown, is from one Syntology probe window (2026-09-16 to 2026-09-18); repositories not probed show nothing. GitHub stars are not tracked.

Code Syntology ran Syntology

Not run by Syntology. Nothing on this page verifies that the listed code works.

Tasks

Computational Efficiency

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

No leaderboard rows for this paper in the archive.

Methods

DropoutInterpretability

Report a problem or propose a change · a person checks every report against the paper or source before anything changes; decisions are listed on /corrections