A **Scatter Connection** is a type of connection that allows a vector to be "scattered" onto a layer representing a map, so that a vector at a specific location corresponds to objects of interest at that location (e.g. units in Starcraft II). This allows for the integration of spatial and non-spatial features.

**TaBERT** is a pretrained language model (LM) that jointly learns representations for natural language sentences and (semi-)structured tables. TaBERT is trained on a large corpus of 26 million tables and their English contexts. 

In summary, TaBERT's process for learning representations for NL sentences is as follows: Given an utterance $u$ and a table $T$, TaBERT first creates a content snapshot of $T$. This snapshot consists of sampled rows that summarize the information in $T$ most relevant to the input utterance. The model then linearizes each row in the snapshot, concatenates each linearized row with the utterance, and uses the concatenated string as input to a Transformer model, which outputs row-wise encoding vectors of utterance tokens and cells. The encodings for all the rows in the snapshot are fed into a series of vertical self-attention layers, where a cell representation (or an utterance token representation) is computed by attending to vertically-aligned vectors of the same column (or the same NL token). Finally, representations for each utterance token and column are generated from a pooling layer.

TaBERT

TaBERT: Pretraining for Joint Understanding of Textual and Tabular Data

Scatter Connection

**Sigmoid Activations** are a type of activation function for neural networks:

$$f\left(x\right) = \frac{1}{\left(1+\exp\left(-x\right)\right)}$$

Some drawbacks of this activation that have been noted in the literature are: sharp damp gradients during backpropagation from deeper hidden layers to inputs, gradient saturation, and slow convergence.

Year	2000
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