**RPM-Net** is an end-to-end differentiable deep network for robust point matching uses learned features. It preserves robustness of RPM against noisy/outlier points while desensitizing initialization with point correspondences from learned feature distances instead of spatial distances. The network uses the differentiable Sinkhorn layer and annealing to get soft assignments of point correspondences from hybrid features learned from both spatial coordinates and local geometry. To further improve registration performance, the authors introduce a secondary network to predict optimal annealing parameters.

**ELECTRA** is a [transformer](https://paperswithcode.com/method/transformer) with a new pre-training approach which trains two transformer models: the generator and the discriminator. The generator replaces tokens in the sequence - trained as a masked language model - and the discriminator (the ELECTRA contribution) attempts to identify which tokens are replaced by the generator in the sequence. This pre-training task is called replaced token detection, and is a replacement for masking the input.

ELECTRA

ELECTRA: Pre-training Text Encoders as Discriminators Rather Than Generators

RPM-Net

RPM-Net: Robust Point Matching using Learned Features

In this paper we aim to answer questions based on images when provided with a dataset of question-answer pairs for a number of images during training. A number of methods have focused on solving this problem by using image based attention. This is done by focusing on a specific part of the image while answering the question. Humans also do so when solving this problem. However, the regions that the previous systems focus on are not correlated with the regions that humans focus on. The accuracy is limited due to this drawback. In this paper, we propose to solve this problem by using an exemplar based method. We obtain one or more supporting and opposing exemplars to obtain a differential attention region. This differential attention is closer to human attention than other image based attention methods. It also helps in obtaining improved accuracy when answering questions. The method is evaluated on challenging benchmark datasets. We perform better than other image based attention methods and are competitive with other state of the art methods that focus on both image and questions.

Source	RPM-Net: Robust Point Matching using Learned Features
Year	2000
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