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In recent years, discriminative self-supervised methods have made significant strides in advancing various visual tasks. The central idea of learning a data encoder that is robust to data distortions/augmentations is straightforward yet…

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Transformers have become central to recent advances in computer vision. However, training a vision Transformer (ViT) model from scratch can be resource intensive and time consuming. In this paper, we aim to explore approaches to reduce the…

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Self-supervised pretrain techniques have been widely used to improve the downstream tasks' performance. However, real-world magnetic resonance (MR) studies usually consist of different sets of contrasts due to different acquisition…

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Vision transformers (ViTs) have gained popularity recently. Even without customized image operators such as convolutions, ViTs can yield competitive performance when properly trained on massive data. However, the computational overhead of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Shixing Yu , Tianlong Chen , Jiayi Shen , Huan Yuan , Jianchao Tan , Sen Yang , Ji Liu , Zhangyang Wang

This paper does not introduce a novel method per se. Instead, we address the neglected potential of hard negative samples in self-supervised learning. Previous works explored synthetic hard negatives but rarely in the context of vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Nikolaos Giakoumoglou , Andreas Floros , Kleanthis Marios Papadopoulos , Tania Stathaki

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved remarkable success due to its large-scale pretraining on general domains, but it still faces challenges when applying it to downstream distant domains that have only scarce training data, which gives…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Shuai Yi , Yixiong Zou , Yuhua Li , Ruixuan Li

Recently the focus of the computer vision community has shifted from expensive supervised learning towards self-supervised learning of visual representations. While the performance gap between supervised and self-supervised has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-13 Mustafa Taha Koçyiğit , Timothy M. Hospedales , Hakan Bilen

Consistency Training (CT) has recently emerged as a strong alternative to diffusion models for image generation. However, non-distillation CT often suffers from high variance and instability, motivating ongoing research into its training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Gianluigi Silvestri , Luca Ambrogioni , Chieh-Hsin Lai , Yuhta Takida , Yuki Mitsufuji

Vision-transformers (ViTs) and large-scale convolution-neural-networks (CNNs) have reshaped computer vision through pretrained feature representations that enable strong transfer learning for diverse tasks. However, their efficiency as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alon Kaya , Igal Bilik , Inna Stainvas

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently received explosive popularity, but their enormous model sizes and training costs remain daunting. Conventional post-training pruning often incurs higher training budgets. In contrast, this paper aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Tianlong Chen , Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang , Zhangyang Wang

Transformers have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of applications, a feat often attributed to their scalability. Yet training them without skip (residual) connections remains notoriously difficult. While skips stabilize…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Yiping Ji , James Martens , Jianqiao Zheng , Ziqin Zhou , Peyman Moghadam , Xinyu Zhang , Hemanth Saratchandran , Simon Lucey

The smoothness of the transformer architecture has been extensively studied in the context of generalization, training stability, and adversarial robustness. However, its role in transfer learning remains poorly understood. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Ambroise Odonnat , Laetitia Chapel , Romain Tavenard , Ievgen Redko

The recent advances in image transformers have shown impressive results and have largely closed the gap between traditional CNN architectures. The standard procedure is to train on large datasets like ImageNet-21k and then finetune on…

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We propose a self-supervised learning framework that uses unlabeled monocular video sequences to generate large-scale supervision for training a Visual Odometry (VO) frontend, a network which computes pointwise data associations across…

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Vision Transformers (ViT)s have shown great performance in self-supervised learning of global and local representations that can be transferred to downstream applications. Inspired by these results, we introduce a novel self-supervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Yucheng Tang , Dong Yang , Wenqi Li , Holger Roth , Bennett Landman , Daguang Xu , Vishwesh Nath , Ali Hatamizadeh

The extension of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to non-Euclidean geometries has led to multiple frameworks for studying manifolds. Many of those methods have shown design limitations resulting in poor modelling of long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Simon Dahan , Logan Z. J. Williams , Abdulah Fawaz , Daniel Rueckert , Emma C. Robinson

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently emerged as a powerful alternative to convolutional networks (CNNs). Although hybrid models attempt to bridge the gap between these two architectures, the self-attention layers they rely on induce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Levent Sagun , Giulio Biroli , Ari Morcos

Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated promising performance in computer vision tasks, comparable to state-of-the-art neural networks. Yet, this new type of deep neural network architecture is vulnerable to adversarial attacks limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Learning visual representations with self-supervised learning has become popular in computer vision. The idea is to design auxiliary tasks where labels are free to obtain. Most of these tasks end up providing data to learn specific kinds of…

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We combine vision transformers with operator learning to solve diverse inverse problems described by partial differential equations (PDEs). Our approach, named ViTO, combines a U-Net based architecture with a vision transformer. We apply…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-17 Oded Ovadia , Adar Kahana , Panos Stinis , Eli Turkel , George Em Karniadakis