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Vision transformer (ViT) has been widely applied in many areas due to its self-attention mechanism that help obtain the global receptive field since the first layer. It even achieves surprising performance exceeding CNN in some vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Hanting Li , Mingzhe Sui , Zhaoqing Zhu , Feng Zhao

Although transformers have become the neural architectures of choice for natural language processing, they require orders of magnitude more training data, GPU memory, and computations in order to compete with convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

This paper proposes a simple, yet effective framework, called GiT, simultaneously applicable for various vision tasks only with a vanilla ViT. Motivated by the universality of the Multi-layer Transformer architecture (e.g, GPT) widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Haiyang Wang , Hao Tang , Li Jiang , Shaoshuai Shi , Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Hongsheng Li , Bernt Schiele , Liwei Wang

Vision Transformers (ViT) have emerged as the de-facto choice for numerous industry grade vision solutions. But their inference cost can be prohibitive for many settings, as they compute self-attention in each layer which suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Rajat Koner , Gagan Jain , Prateek Jain , Volker Tresp , Sujoy Paul

Vision Transformer (ViT) self-attention mechanism is characterized by feature collapse in deeper layers, resulting in the vanishing of low-level visual features. However, such features can be helpful to accurately represent and identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Anxhelo Diko , Danilo Avola , Marco Cascio , Luigi Cinque

Despite its clinical utility, medical image segmentation (MIS) remains a daunting task due to images' inherent complexity and variability. Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently emerged as a promising solution to improve MIS; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Siyi Du , Nourhan Bayasi , Ghassan Hamarneh , Rafeef Garbi

Since its inception, Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a prevalent model in the computer vision domain. Nonetheless, the multi-head self-attention (MHSA) mechanism in ViT is computationally expensive due to its calculation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zhe Bian , Zhe Wang , Wenqiang Han , Kangping Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have proven to be effective, in solving 2D image understanding tasks by training over large-scale image datasets; and meanwhile as a somehow separate track, in modeling the 3D visual world too such as voxels or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Yi Wang , Zhiwen Fan , Tianlong Chen , Hehe Fan , Zhangyang Wang

This paper explores the feasibility of finding an optimal sub-model from a vision transformer and introduces a pure vision transformer slimming (ViT-Slim) framework. It can search a sub-structure from the original model end-to-end across…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Arnav Chavan , Zhiqiang Shen , Zhuang Liu , Zechun Liu , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Eric Xing

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently garnered considerable attention, emerging as a promising alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in several vision-related applications. However, their large model sizes and high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Dayou Du , Gu Gong , Xiaowen Chu

The computational overhead of Vision Transformers in practice stems fundamentally from their deep architectures, yet existing acceleration strategies have primarily targeted algorithmic-level optimizations such as token pruning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Chengwei Zhou , Vipin Chaudhary , Gourav Datta

Visual Recognition is one of the fundamental challenges in AI, where the goal is to understand the semantics of visual data. Employing mid-level representation, in particular, shifted the paradigm in visual recognition. The mid-level…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-12-24 Moin Nabi

With the success of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in computer vision tasks, recent arts try to optimize the performance and complexity of ViTs to enable efficient deployment on mobile devices. Multiple approaches are proposed to accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yanyu Li , Ju Hu , Yang Wen , Georgios Evangelidis , Kamyar Salahi , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are widely adopted in medical imaging tasks, and some existing efforts have been directed towards vision-language training for Chest X-rays (CXRs). However, we envision that there still exists a potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Umar Marikkar , Sara Atito , Muhammad Awais , Adam Mahdi

Transformers have demonstrated promising performance in computer vision tasks, including image super-resolution (SR). The quadratic computational complexity of window self-attention mechanisms in many transformer-based SR methods forces the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Fayaz Ali , Muhammad Zawish , Steven Davy , Radu Timofte

This paper introduces ConvShareViT, a novel deep learning architecture that adapts Vision Transformers (ViTs) to the 4f free-space optical system. ConvShareViT replaces linear layers in multi-head self-attention (MHSA) and Multilayer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Riad Ibadulla , Thomas M. Chen , Constantino Carlos Reyes-Aldasoro

We design a family of image classification architectures that optimize the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency in a high-speed regime. Our work exploits recent findings in attention-based architectures, which are competitive on highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ben Graham , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Hugo Touvron , Pierre Stock , Armand Joulin , Hervé Jégou , Matthijs Douze

We study a crucial yet often overlooked issue inherent to Vision Transformers (ViTs): feature maps of these models exhibit grid-like artifacts, which hurt the performance of ViTs in downstream dense prediction tasks such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiawei Yang , Katie Z Luo , Jiefeng Li , Congyue Deng , Leonidas Guibas , Dilip Krishnan , Kilian Q Weinberger , Yonglong Tian , Yue Wang

MLP-based architectures, which consist of a sequence of consecutive multi-layer perceptron blocks, have recently been found to reach comparable results to convolutional and transformer-based methods. However, most adopt spatial MLPs which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Jiachen Li , Ali Hassani , Steven Walton , Humphrey Shi

In recent years, researchers combine both audio and video signals to deal with challenges where actions are not well represented or captured by visual cues. However, how to effectively leverage the two modalities is still under development.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Wentao Zhu