arXiv:2607.23077cs.AI2026-07

用单块结构化变换器显式建模多主体时序交互,更高效

Structure over Depth: A Single-Block Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Multi-Entity Reasoning

论文配图:Structure over Depth: A Single-Block Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Multi-Entity Reasoning
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  • 将多主体时序动态分解为空间、时间、跨域三类交互,单块并行建模
  • 仅176万参数就达到甚至超过深层模型性能,视频/人体/传感器数据均有效
  • 适合需要高效推理的多主体时序分析场景,如动作识别与人机交互

建模多主体时序数据需捕捉主体间、时间轴及两者交互的依赖关系。现有基于Transformer的方法通常依赖深层堆叠以隐式学习这些异构依赖,导致计算开销大。本文从结构视角重新审视该问题,将多主体时序动态分解为三类交互:主体间的空间交互、时间上的动态交互,以及耦合两者的跨域交互。提出一种结构化的时空变换器模块,可在单个阶段内显式建模这三类交互:采用并行的空间与时间自注意力,随后通过双向交叉注意力连接,输出通过可学习门控融合。该设计直接编码互补视角,减少对深层堆叠的依赖。在基于视频的群体活动识别、基于骨骼的人体交互分析和可穿戴传感器活动识别任务上评估,尽管结构简单,仅176万参数即达到或超越更深架构的性能。结果表明,先前模型的深度部分用于补偿隐式且纠缠的交互建模缺陷,而显式分解提供了更高效透明的替代方案。本研究支持‘结构优先’的设计原则:通过揭示交互结构而非依赖深度,即可实现强表达力的多主体时序推理。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Modeling multi-entity temporal data requires capturing dependencies across entities, time, and their interactions. Transformer-based approaches perform well but often rely on deep stacks of layers to learn these heterogeneous dependencies implicitly, increasing computational cost. We revisit this problem from a structural perspective and decompose multi-entity temporal dynamics into three interaction types: spatial interactions among entities, temporal interactions across time, and cross interactions coupling the two domains. We propose a structured spatio-temporal transformer block that explicitly models all three within a single stage. It uses parallel spatial and temporal self-attention, followed by bidirectional cross-attention, and combines the outputs through learnable gated fusion. By directly encoding these complementary views, the model reduces the need for deep stacking. We evaluate the approach on video-based group activity recognition, skeleton-based human interaction analysis, and wearable sensor-based activity recognition. Despite its simplicity, the single structured Transformer block matches or outperforms deeper architectures with only 1.76M parameters. The results suggest that depth in prior models partly compensates for implicit and entangled interaction modeling, whereas explicit factorization offers a more efficient and transparent alternative. More broadly, this work supports a structure-first design principle: expressive multi-entity temporal reasoning can emerge by exposing interaction structure rather than relying on depth.

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