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Vision transformers (ViTs) quantization offers a promising prospect to facilitate deploying large pre-trained networks on resource-limited devices. Fully-binarized ViTs (Bi-ViT) that pushes the quantization of ViTs to its limit remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yanjing Li , Sheng Xu , Mingbao Lin , Xianbin Cao , Chuanjian Liu , Xiao Sun , Baochang Zhang

This paper investigates the Neural Tangent Kernel (NTK) to search vision transformers without training. In contrast with the previous observation that NTK-based metrics can effectively predict CNNs performance at initialization, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-09 Qiqi Zhou , Yichen Zhu

Vision transformers (ViT) have demonstrated impressive performance across various machine vision problems. These models are based on multi-head self-attention mechanisms that can flexibly attend to a sequence of image patches to encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Muzammal Naseer , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a popular backbone for visual tracking. However, complete ViT architectures are too cumbersome to deploy for unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) tracking which extremely emphasizes efficiency. In this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chaocan Xue , Bineng Zhong , Qihua Liang , Yaozong Zheng , Ning Li , Yuanliang Xue , Shuxiang Song

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) often trains and evaluates a large number of architectures. Recent predictor-based NAS approaches attempt to alleviate such heavy computation costs with two key steps: sampling some architecture-performance…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Junru Wu , Xiyang Dai , Dongdong Chen , Yinpeng Chen , Mengchen Liu , Ye Yu , Zhangyang Wang , Zicheng Liu , Mei Chen , Lu Yuan

With the increasing popularity and the increasing size of vision transformers (ViTs), there has been an increasing interest in making them more efficient and less computationally costly for deployment on edge devices with limited computing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-04 Phuoc-Hoan Charles Le , Xinlin Li

Vision transformers (ViTs) have found only limited practical use in processing images, in spite of their state-of-the-art accuracy on certain benchmarks. The reason for their limited use include their need for larger training datasets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Pranav Jeevan , Amit sethi

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown competitive accuracy in image classification tasks compared with CNNs. Yet, they generally require much more data for model pre-training. Most of recent works thus are dedicated to designing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daquan Zhou , Yujun Shi , Bingyi Kang , Weihao Yu , Zihang Jiang , Yuan Li , Xiaojie Jin , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Transfer learning can boost the performance on the targettask by leveraging the knowledge of the source domain. Recent worksin neural architecture search (NAS), especially one-shot NAS, can aidtransfer learning by establishing sufficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-20 Ming Sun , Haoxuan Dou , Junjie Yan

Despite the remarkable success of Vision Transformers (ViTs) across a wide range of vision tasks, recent studies have revealed that they remain vulnerable to adversarial examples, much like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). A common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jiaming Zhang , Meng Ding , Shaopeng Fu , Jingfeng Zhang , Di Wang

Weak gravitational lensing is a powerful probe of the universe's growth history. While traditional two-point statistics capture only the Gaussian features of the convergence field, deep learning methods such as convolutional neural networks…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Jash Kakadia , Shubh Agrawal , Kunhao Zhong , Bhuvnesh Jain

This paper investigates the effectiveness of self-supervised pre-trained vision transformers (ViTs) compared to supervised pre-trained ViTs and conventional neural networks (ConvNets) for detecting facial deepfake images and videos. It…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Huy H. Nguyen , Junichi Yamagishi , Isao Echizen

Training-free Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture search is presented to search for a better ViT with zero-cost proxies. While ViTs achieve significant distillation gains from CNN teacher models on small datasets, the current zero-cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-27 Zimian Wei , Hengyue Pan , Lujun Li , Peijie Dong , Zhiliang Tian , Xin Niu , Dongsheng Li

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable success across various vision tasks, yet their deployment is often hindered by prohibitive computational costs. While structured weight pruning and token compression have emerged as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-19 Hyunchan Moon , Cheonjun Park , Steven L. Waslander

Transformers have emerged as a competitive alternative to convnets in vision tasks, yet they lack the architectural inductive bias of convnets, which may hinder their potential performance. Specifically, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hagay Michaeli , Daniel Soudry

The recent success of Vision Transformers has generated significant interest in attention mechanisms and transformer architectures. Although existing methods have proposed spiking self-attention mechanisms compatible with spiking neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Sanaz Mahmoodi Takaghaj

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), architectures consisting of convolutional layers, have been the standard choice in vision tasks. Recent studies have shown that Vision Transformers (VTs), architectures based on self-attention modules,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Kishaan Jeeveswaran , Senthilkumar Kathiresan , Arnav Varma , Omar Magdy , Bahram Zonooz , Elahe Arani

Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures represent images as collections of high-dimensional vectorized tokens, each corresponding to a rectangular non-overlapping patch. This representation trades spatial granularity for embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Dong Lao , Yangchao Wu , Tian Yu Liu , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

Texture, a significant visual attribute in images, has been extensively investigated across various image recognition applications. Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), which have been successful in many computer vision tasks, are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 Leonardo Scabini , Andre Sacilotti , Kallil M. Zielinski , Lucas C. Ribas , Bernard De Baets , Odemir M. Bruno

Vision transformers (ViTs) that model an image as a sequence of partitioned patches have shown notable performance in diverse vision tasks. Because partitioning patches eliminates the image structure, to reflect the order of patches, ViTs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Bum Jun Kim , Hyeyeon Choi , Hyeonah Jang , Sang Woo Kim