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Arshia Afzal

4 accepted papers

2026

Selective Rotary Position Embedding

ICLR 2026poster

Position information is essential for language modeling. In softmax transformers, Rotary Position Embeddings (\textit{RoPE}) encode positions through \textit{fixed-angle} rotations, while in linear transformers, order is handled via input-dependent (selective) gating that decays past key-value assoc…

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2026

Spatial Priors via Space Filling Curves for Small and Limited Data Vision Transformers

ICML 2026poster

Though Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become the dominant backbone in many computer vision tasks, due to permutation invariance, their attention mechanism lacks explicit spatial inductive biases. This become particularly important in two common settings: when model capacity is small or training dat…

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2025

Linear Attention for Efficient Bidirectional Sequence Modeling

NeurIPS 2025poster

Linear Transformers and State Space Models have emerged as efficient alternatives to softmax Transformers for causal sequence modeling, enabling parallel training via matrix multiplication and efficient RNN-style inference. However, despite their success in causal tasks, no unified framework exists…

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2024

REST: Efficient and Accelerated EEG Seizure Analysis through Residual State Updates

ICML 2024poster

EEG-based seizure detection models face challenges in terms of inference speed and memory efficiency, limiting their real-time implementation in clinical devices. This paper introduces a novel graph-based residual state update mechanism (REST) for real-time EEG signal analysis in applications such a…

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