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Following the success in advancing natural language processing and understanding, transformers are expected to bring revolutionary changes to computer vision. This work provides a comprehensive study on the robustness of vision transformers…

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As a special type of transformer, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are used to various computer vision applications (CV), such as image recognition. There are several potential problems with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that can be solved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Sonain Jamil , Md. Jalil Piran , Oh-Jin Kwon

Vision Transformers (ViTs) and their variants have become state-of-the-art in many computer vision tasks and are widely used as backbones in large-scale vision and vision-language foundation models. While substantial research has focused on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Massoud Dehghan , Ramona Woitek , Amirreza Mahbod

In this paper, we investigate the continual learning of Vision Transformers (ViT) for the challenging exemplar-free scenario, with special focus on how to efficiently distill the knowledge of its crucial self-attention mechanism (SAM). Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-06 Francesco Pelosin , Saurav Jha , Andrea Torsello , Bogdan Raducanu , Joost van de Weijer

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive performance on various vision tasks, yet their generalization under distribution shifts (DS) is rarely understood. In this work, we comprehensively study the out-of-distribution (OOD)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-09 Chongzhi Zhang , Mingyuan Zhang , Shanghang Zhang , Daisheng Jin , Qiang Zhou , Zhongang Cai , Haiyu Zhao , Xianglong Liu , Ziwei Liu

Learning efficient and expressive visual representation has long been the pursuit of computer vision research. While Vision Transformers (ViTs) gradually replace traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) as more scalable vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Quan Kong , Yanru Xiao , Yuhao Shen , Cong Wang

Existing computer vision research in categorization struggles with fine-grained attributes recognition due to the inherently high intra-class variances and low inter-class variances. SOTA methods tackle this challenge by locating the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Marcos V. Conde , Kerem Turgutlu

In robot learning, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are standard for visual perception, yet most methods discard valuable information by using only the final layer's features. We argue this provides an insufficient representation and propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Wenhao Li , Chengwei Ma , Weixin Mao

Deep neural networks are powerful, but they also have shortcomings such as their sensitivity to adversarial examples, noise, blur, occlusion, etc. Moreover, ensuring the reliability and robustness of deep neural network models is crucial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Xiaoliang Liu , Furao Shen , Jian Zhao , Changhai Nie

Recently, vision transformer (ViT) and its variants have achieved promising performances in various computer vision tasks. Yet the high computational costs and training data requirements of ViTs limit their application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Hao Yu , Jianxin Wu

The ubiquitous and demonstrably suboptimal choice of resizing images to a fixed resolution before processing them with computer vision models has not yet been successfully challenged. However, models such as the Vision Transformer (ViT)…

The currently leading artificial neural network models of the visual ventral stream - which are derived from a combination of performance optimization and robustification methods - have demonstrated a remarkable degree of behavioral…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Morgan B. Talbot , Gabriel Kreiman , James J. DiCarlo , Guy Gaziv

In this paper, we propose a combined use of transformed images and vision transformer (ViT) models transformed with a secret key. We show for the first time that models trained with plain images can be directly transformed to models trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Hitoshi Kiya , Ryota Iijima , MaungMaung Aprilpyone , Yuma Kinoshita

Computer vision research has long aimed to build systems that are robust to spatial transformations found in natural data. Traditionally, this is done using data augmentation or hard-coding invariances into the architecture. However, too…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Utkarsh Singhal , Carlos Esteves , Ameesh Makadia , Stella X. Yu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a promising approach for visual recognition tasks, revolutionizing the field by leveraging the power of transformer-based architectures. Among the various ViT models, Swin Transformers have gained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-02 Sanad Aburass , Osama Dorgham

General-purpose pre-trained models ("foundation models") have enabled practitioners to produce generalizable solutions for individual machine learning problems with datasets that are significantly smaller than those required for learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Dhruv Shah , Ajay Sridhar , Nitish Dashora , Kyle Stachowicz , Kevin Black , Noriaki Hirose , Sergey Levine

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have attracted a lot of popularity in recent years, due to their exceptional capabilities in modeling long-range spatial dependencies and scalability for large scale training. Although the training parallelism of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-29 Ali Hatamizadeh , Michael Ranzinger , Shiyi Lan , Jose M. Alvarez , Sanja Fidler , Jan Kautz

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as popular models in computer vision, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance across various tasks. This success typically follows a two-stage strategy involving pre-training on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zijun Long , Zaiqiao Meng , Gerardo Aragon Camarasa , Richard McCreadie

Transformers have recently demonstrated strong performance in computer vision, with Vision Transformers (ViTs) leveraging self-attention to capture both low-level and high-level image features. However, standard ViTs remain computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ali El Bellaj , Mohammed-Amine Cheddadi , Rhassan Berber

Pre-trained models learn general representations from large datsets which can be fine-turned for specific tasks to significantly reduce training time. Pre-trained models like generative pretrained transformers (GPT), bidirectional encoder…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Linhan Xia , Yicheng Yang , Ziou Chen , Zheng Yang , Shengxin Zhu