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Transformer becomes prevalent in computer vision, especially for high-level vision tasks. However, adopting Transformer in the generative adversarial network (GAN) framework is still an open yet challenging problem. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Rui Xu , Xiangyu Xu , Kai Chen , Bolei Zhou , Chen Change Loy

Transformers have become an indispensable module for text generation models since their great success in machine translation. Previous works attribute the~success of transformers to the query-key-value dot-product attention, which provides…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Lei Sha , Yuhang Song , Yordan Yordanov , Tommaso Salvatori , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Transformer-based neural networks have surpassed promising performance on many biomedical image segmentation tasks due to a better global information modeling from the self-attention mechanism. However, most methods are still designed for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-02 Zheyuan Zhang , Ulas Bagci

We propose a novel method for applying Transformer models to extractive question answering (QA) tasks. Recently, pretrained generative sequence-to-sequence (seq2seq) models have achieved great success in question answering. Contributing to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-14 Peng Xu , Davis Liang , Zhiheng Huang , Bing Xiang

Diffusion models have recently achieved significant success in various image manipulation tasks, including image super-resolution and perceptual quality enhancement. Pretrained text-to-image models, such as Stable Diffusion, have exhibited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Sanchar Palit , Subhasis Chaudhuri , Biplab Banerjee

Contemporary diffusion models built upon U-Net or Diffusion Transformer (DiT) architectures have revolutionized image generation through transformer-based attention mechanisms. The prevailing paradigm has commonly employed self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-01 ZiYi Dong , Chengxing Zhou , Weijian Deng , Pengxu Wei , Xiangyang Ji , Liang Lin

The great success of Transformer-based models benefits from the powerful multi-head self-attention mechanism, which learns token dependencies and encodes contextual information from the input. Prior work strives to attribute model decisions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-02-26 Yaru Hao , Li Dong , Furu Wei , Ke Xu

Since their introduction the Trasformer architectures emerged as the dominating architectures for both natural language processing and, more recently, computer vision applications. An intrinsic limitation of this family of "fully-attentive"…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Carmelo Scribano , Giorgia Franchini , Marco Prato , Marko Bertogna

The transformer architecture and variants presented remarkable success across many machine learning tasks in recent years. This success is intrinsically related to the capability of handling long sequences and the presence of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Luckeciano C. Melo

When it comes to classifying child sexual abuse images, managing similar inter-class correlations and diverse intra-class correlations poses a significant challenge. Vision transformer models, unlike conventional deep convolutional network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Hanxian He , Campbell Wilson , Thanh Thi Nguyen , Janis Dalins

We propose Axial Transformers, a self-attention-based autoregressive model for images and other data organized as high dimensional tensors. Existing autoregressive models either suffer from excessively large computational resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Jonathan Ho , Nal Kalchbrenner , Dirk Weissenborn , Tim Salimans

Recently, Transformer architecture has been introduced into image restoration to replace convolution neural network (CNN) with surprising results. Considering the high computational complexity of Transformer with global attention, some…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Zheng Chen , Yulun Zhang , Jinjin Gu , Yongbing Zhang , Linghe Kong , Xin Yuan

Transformers are a popular choice for classification tasks and as backbones for object detection tasks. However, their high latency brings challenges in their adaptation to lightweight object detection systems. We present an approximation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Dharma KC , Venkata Ravi Kiran Dayana , Meng-Lin Wu , Venkateswara Rao Cherukuri , Hau Hwang

Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in image restoration tasks, such as image super-resolution and denoising. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiangyu Chen , Xintao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Xiangtao Kong , Yu Qiao , Jiantao Zhou , Chao Dong

Attention-based models, such as Transformer, excel across various tasks but lack a comprehensive theoretical understanding, especially regarding token-wise sparsity and internal linear representations. To address this gap, we introduce the…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-02-27 Pierre Marion , Raphaël Berthier , Gérard Biau , Claire Boyer

This paper proposes Omnidirectional Representations from Transformers (OmniNet). In OmniNet, instead of maintaining a strictly horizontal receptive field, each token is allowed to attend to all tokens in the entire network. This process can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Yi Tay , Mostafa Dehghani , Vamsi Aribandi , Jai Gupta , Philip Pham , Zhen Qin , Dara Bahri , Da-Cheng Juan , Donald Metzler

Unsupervised image translation aims to learn the transformation from a source domain to another target domain given unpaired training data. Several state-of-the-art works have yielded impressive results in the GANs-based unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-21 Taewon Kang , Kwang Hee Lee

Self-attention has the promise of improving computer vision systems due to parameter-independent scaling of receptive fields and content-dependent interactions, in contrast to parameter-dependent scaling and content-independent interactions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Ashish Vaswani , Prajit Ramachandran , Aravind Srinivas , Niki Parmar , Blake Hechtman , Jonathon Shlens

The spreading of attention has been proposed as a mechanism for how humans group features to segment objects. However, such a mechanism has not yet been implemented and tested in naturalistic images. Here, we leverage the feature maps from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hossein Adeli , Seoyoung Ahn , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte , Gregory Zelinsky

Inspired by recent work in machine translation and object detection, we introduce an attention based model that automatically learns to describe the content of images. We describe how we can train this model in a deterministic manner using…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Kelvin Xu , Jimmy Ba , Ryan Kiros , Kyunghyun Cho , Aaron Courville , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Richard Zemel , Yoshua Bengio