Concatenation Based
Concatenation-based methods are a prevalent approach in machine learning, focusing on combining different data representations (e.g., features, sentences, or image frames) to improve model performance across diverse tasks. Current research explores applications in speech recognition, image processing (including super-resolution and virtual try-on), medical image segmentation, and natural language processing, often employing neural networks (including transformers, recurrent networks, and MLPs) to process the concatenated data. This simple yet effective technique offers advantages in efficiency and performance, impacting various fields by enabling improved accuracy and reduced computational costs in tasks ranging from medical diagnosis to language translation.
Papers
Repeat and Concatenate: 2D to 3D Image Translation with 3D to 3D Generative Modeling
Abril Corona-Figueroa, Hubert P. H. Shum, Chris G. Willcocks
Shimo Lab at "Discharge Me!": Discharge Summarization by Prompt-Driven Concatenation of Electronic Health Record Sections
Yunzhen He, Hiroaki Yamagiwa, Hidetoshi Shimodaira