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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in various vision tasks. However, they tend to underperform on smaller datasets due to their inherent lack of inductive biases. Current approaches address this limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alan Luo , Kaiwen Yuan

Transformer design is the de facto standard for natural language processing tasks. The success of the transformer design in natural language processing has lately piqued the interest of researchers in the domain of computer vision. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Md Sohag Mia , Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Abdu Naim , Abdullah Al Bary Voban , Md Shariful Islam

We introduce the first Neural Architecture Search (NAS) method to find a better transformer architecture for image recognition. Recently, transformers without CNN-based backbones are found to achieve impressive performance for image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-18 Boyu Chen , Peixia Li , Chuming Li , Baopu Li , Lei Bai , Chen Lin , Ming Sun , Junjie yan , Wanli Ouyang

Vision transformers (ViTs) process input images as sequences of patches via self-attention; a radically different architecture than convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This makes it interesting to study the adversarial feature space of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Muzammal Naseer , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Fatih Porikli

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 emerged as the fundamental architecture for most computer vision fields, but the considerable memory and computation costs hinders their application on resource-limited devices. As one of the most powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Junrui Xiao , Zhikai Li , Lianwei Yang , Qingyi Gu

Visual Transformers (VTs) are emerging as an architectural paradigm alternative to Convolutional networks (CNNs). Differently from CNNs, VTs can capture global relations between image elements and they potentially have a larger…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Yahui Liu , Enver Sangineto , Wei Bi , Nicu Sebe , Bruno Lepri , Marco De Nadai

In recent years, neural architecture search (NAS) has received intensive scientific and industrial interest due to its capability of finding a neural architecture with high accuracy for various artificial intelligence tasks such as image…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-18 Martin Ferianc , Hongxiang Fan , Miguel Rodrigues

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently dominated a range of computer vision tasks, yet it suffers from low training data efficiency and inferior local semantic representation capability without appropriate inductive bias. Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Cong Wang , Hongmin Xu , Xiong Zhang , Li Wang , Zhitong Zheng , Haifeng Liu

Vision Transformers have enabled recent attention-based Deep Learning (DL) architectures to achieve remarkable results in Computer Vision (CV) tasks. However, due to the extensive computational resources required, these architectures are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Lotfi Abdelkrim Mecharbat , Hadjer Benmeziane , Hamza Ouarnoughi , Smail Niar

Hybrids of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Vision Transformer (ViT) have outperformed pure CNN or ViT architecture. However, since these architectures require large parameters and incur large computational costs, they are unsuitable…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-01 Mikhael Djajapermana , Moritz Reiber , Daniel Mueller-Gritschneder , Ulf Schlichtmann

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are becoming more popular and dominating technique for various vision tasks, compare to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). As a demanding technique in computer vision, ViTs have been successfully solved various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Khawar Islam

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

Transformers exhibit great advantages in handling computer vision tasks. They model image classification tasks by utilizing a multi-head attention mechanism to process a series of patches consisting of split images. However, for complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Witold Pedrycz , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei

While ViTs have achieved across machine learning tasks, deploying them in real-world scenarios faces a critical challenge: generalizing under OoD shifts. A crucial research gap exists in understanding how to design ViT architectures, both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Sy-Tuyen Ho , Tuan Van Vo , Somayeh Ebrahimkhani , Ngai-Man Cheung

One-Shot Neural architecture search (NAS) attracts broad attention recently due to its capacity to reduce the computational hours through weight sharing. However, extensive experiments on several recent works show that there is no positive…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Miao Zhang , Huiqi Li , Shirui Pan , Taoping Liu , Steven Su

Vision Transformer (ViT), a radically different architecture than convolutional neural networks offers multiple advantages including design simplicity, robustness and state-of-the-art performance on many vision tasks. However, in contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hanan Gani , Muzammal Naseer , Mohammad Yaqub

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful approach of automating the design of efficient neural architectures. In contrast to traditional NAS methods, recently proposed one-shot NAS methods prove to be more efficient in performing NAS.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Waqwoya Abebe , Sadegh Jafari , Sixing Yu , Akash Dutta , Jan Strube , Nathan R. Tallent , Luanzheng Guo , Pablo Munoz , Ali Jannesari

This work targets to merge various Vision Transformers (ViTs) trained on different tasks (i.e., datasets with different object categories) or domains (i.e., datasets with the same categories but different environments) into one unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Peng Ye , Chenyu Huang , Mingzhu Shen , Tao Chen , Yongqi Huang , Yuning Zhang , Wanli Ouyang

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) has shown promising performance in the automatic design of vision transformers (ViT) exceeding 1G FLOPs. However, designing lightweight and low-latency ViT models for diverse mobile devices remains a big…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-22 Chen Tang , Li Lyna Zhang , Huiqiang Jiang , Jiahang Xu , Ting Cao , Quanlu Zhang , Yuqing Yang , Zhi Wang , Mao Yang