2018-02-06 Plan

[bmcfee]

Attention papers? @justinsalamon

[justinsalamon]

Some recommendations from @pli1988:

Good overview and references plus it's short.
http://ruder.io/deep-learning-nlp-best-practices/index.html#attention

More of a survey of attention...a bit old at this point, but good
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.01053.pdf

Next Level Attention
https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

I think I have a couple more candidates lying around somewhere, will post later today, then would be good for those familiar with this literature to help guide the choice of which papers/blogs to focus on.

[bmcfee]

I think for a first run, either a survey or an early paper would be best. We can cover the more recent stuff later on.

[mcartwright]

I vote for Describing Multimedia Content using Attention-based Encoder–Decoder Networks

[justinsalamon]

There's also the "original" attention paper:

Neural Machine Translation by Jointly Learning to Align and Translate
https://arxiv.org/abs/1409.0473

Without having read the papers, I'm inclined to agree with @mcartwright that we should start with:
"Describing Multimedia Content using Attention-based Encoder–Decoder Networks"
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.01053.pdf

Unless there are any contenders, shall we go with this paper?

[justinsalamon]

Just saw there's a bunch of attention paper suggestions on #2. Pasting them here, @bmcfee @mcartwright @pli1988 shall we stick to this issue for attention papers?

@bmcfee:
Chiu and Raffel 17: https://arxiv.org/abs/1712.05382
Mnih 14: http://papers.nips.cc/paper/5542-recurrent-models-of-visual-attention
Gregor 15: https://arxiv.org/abs/1502.04623 (aka DRAW)
Xu 15: http://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/xuc15.html (show-attend-tell)
Arandjelovic 17: https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.08168 (look-listen-learn)

@pli1988:
I really like this survey. It starts with seq2seq first which I think is important.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1507.01053.pdf
This blog covers a bunch of different flavors of attention and is easy to read.
http://ruder.io/deep-learning-nlp-best-practices/index.html#attention
Attention is all you need.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1706.03762.pdf

It still seems to me like the Cho's survey paper (Describing Multimedia Content using
Attention-based Encoder–Decoder Networks) would be the best starting point - any comments?

[bmcfee]

SGTM. Do you have an alternative link to the pdf? I'm getting a 403 error.

[bmcfee]

NM, looks like it was a temporary arxiv hiccup. @justinsalamon can you send the paper out to the group?