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Since the introduction of the Transformer architecture for large language models, the softmax-based attention layer has faced increasing scrutinity due to its quadratic-time computational complexity. Attempts have been made to replace it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Robert Forchheimer

Vision Transformer(ViT) is now dominating many vision tasks. The drawback of quadratic complexity of its token-wise multi-head self-attention (MHSA), is extensively addressed via either token sparsification or dimension reduction (in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Haiyang Xu , Zhichao Zhou , Dongliang He , Fu Li , Jingdong Wang

In this paper, we propose a novel token selective attention approach, ToSA, which can identify tokens that need to be attended as well as those that can skip a transformer layer. More specifically, a token selector parses the current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Manish Kumar Singh , Rajeev Yasarla , Hong Cai , Mingu Lee , Fatih Porikli

Vision Transformers are very popular nowadays due to their state-of-the-art performance in several computer vision tasks, such as image classification and action recognition. Although their performance has been greatly enhanced through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Dimitrios Konstantinidis , Ilias Papastratis , Kosmas Dimitropoulos , Petros Daras

While models derived from Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been phonemically surging, pre-trained models cannot seamlessly adapt to arbitrary resolution images without altering the architecture and configuration, such as sampling the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Song Zhang , Qingzhong Wang , Jiang Bian , Haoyi Xiong

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable success in various vision tasks. However, many architectures do not consider interactions between feature maps from different stages and scales,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Liang Shang , Yanli Liu , Zhengyang Lou , Shuxue Quan , Nagesh Adluru , Bochen Guan , William A. Sethares

We introduce a new attention mechanism, dubbed structural self-attention (StructSA), that leverages rich correlation patterns naturally emerging in key-query interactions of attention. StructSA generates attention maps by recognizing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-08 Manjin Kim , Paul Hongsuck Seo , Cordelia Schmid , Minsu Cho

Recently, Transformers have shown promising performance in various vision tasks. However, the high costs of global self-attention remain challenging for Transformers, especially for high-resolution vision tasks. Local self-attention runs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Zhemin Zhang , Xun Gong

Vision Transformer (ViT) has brought new breakthroughs to the field of image classification by introducing the self-attention mechanism and Graph Convolutional Networks(GCN) have been proposed and successfully applied in data representation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Haibin Jiao

In recent years, Vision Transformers have attracted increasing interest from computer vision researchers. However, the advantage of these transformers over CNNs is only fully manifested when trained over a large dataset, mainly due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Itamar Zimerman , Lior Wolf

In the research area of image super-resolution, Swin-transformer-based models are favored for their global spatial modeling and shifting window attention mechanism. However, existing methods often limit self-attention to non overlapping…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-11 Song-Jiang Lai , Tsun-Hin Cheung , Ka-Chun Fung , Kai-wen Xue , Kin-Man Lam

Micro-expression recognition (MER) presents a significant challenge due to the transient and subtle nature of the motion changes involved. In recent years, deep learning methods based on attention mechanisms have made some breakthroughs in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Lijun Zhang , Yifan Zhang , Weicheng Tang , Xinzhi Sun , Xiaomeng Wang , Zhanshan Li

Vision transformer (ViT) has recently shown its strong capability in achieving comparable results to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on image classification. However, vanilla ViT simply inherits the same architecture from the natural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-01 Chun-Fu Chen , Rameswar Panda , Quanfu Fan

Surface meshes are a favoured domain for representing structural and functional information on the human cortex, but their complex topology and geometry pose significant challenges for deep learning analysis. While Transformers have…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-12 Simon Dahan , Logan Z. J. Williams , Daniel Rueckert , Emma C. Robinson

Feature shifts have been shown to be useful for action recognition with CNN-based models since Temporal Shift Module (TSM) was proposed. It is based on frame-wise feature extraction with late fusion, and layer features are shifted along the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Ryota Hashiguchi , Toru Tamaki

Despite the impressive representation capacity of vision transformer models, current light-weight vision transformer models still suffer from inconsistent and incorrect dense predictions at local regions. We suspect that the power of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-22 Chenglin Yang , Yilin Wang , Jianming Zhang , He Zhang , Zijun Wei , Zhe Lin , Alan Yuille

While Transformer self-attention offers strong parallelism, the Key-Value (KV) cache grows linearly with sequence length and becomes a bottleneck for inference efficiency. Multi-head latent attention was recently developed to compress the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Keqi Deng , Philip C. Woodland

Transformer has demonstrated promising performance in many 2D vision tasks. However, it is cumbersome to compute the self-attention on large-scale point cloud data because point cloud is a long sequence and unevenly distributed in 3D space.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Chenhang He , Ruihuang Li , Shuai Li , Lei Zhang

This paper presents a novel person re-identification model, named Multi-Head Self-Attention Network (MHSA-Net), to prune unimportant information and capture key local information from person images. MHSA-Net contains two main novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hongchen Tan , Xiuping Liu , Baocai Yin , Xin Li

Transformer has been applied in the field of computer vision due to its excellent performance in natural language processing, surpassing traditional convolutional neural networks and achieving new state-of-the-art. ViT divides an image into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Yuang Liu , Zhiheng Qiu , Xiaokai Qin