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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become prominent models for solving various vision tasks. However, the interpretability of ViTs has not kept pace with their promising performance. While there has been a surge of interest in developing {\it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yao Qiang , Chengyin Li , Prashant Khanduri , Dongxiao Zhu

The large pre-trained vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on various visual tasks, but suffer from expensive computational and memory cost problems when deployed on resource-constrained devices. Among the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yanjing Li , Sheng Xu , Baochang Zhang , Xianbin Cao , Peng Gao , Guodong Guo

Attention is sparse in vision transformers. We observe the final prediction in vision transformers is only based on a subset of most informative tokens, which is sufficient for accurate image recognition. Based on this observation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yongming Rao , Wenliang Zhao , Benlin Liu , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have successfully been applied to image classification problems where large annotated datasets are available. On the other hand, when fewer annotations are available, such as in biomedical applications, image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Felipe A. Quezada , Carlos F. Navarro , Cristian Muñoz , Manuel Zamorano , Jorge Jara-Wilde , Violeta Chang , Cristóbal A. Navarro , Mauricio Cerda

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks. However, ViTs have a huge computational cost due to their inherent reliance on multi-head self-attention (MHSA), prompting efforts to accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Seungdong Yoa , Seungjun Lee , Hyeseung Cho , Bumsoo Kim , Woohyung Lim

Vision Transformers (ViTs) mark a revolutionary advance in neural networks with their token mixer's powerful global context capability. However, the pairwise token affinity and complex matrix operations limit its deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Tianfang Zhang , Lei Li , Yang Zhou , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Xiangyang Ji

Vision transformers (ViTs) have become the popular structures and outperformed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on various vision tasks. However, such powerful transformers bring a huge computation burden, because of the exhausting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhuofan Zong , Kunchang Li , Guanglu Song , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Biao Leng , Yu 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

This work investigates a simple yet powerful dense prediction task adapter for Vision Transformer (ViT). Unlike recently advanced variants that incorporate vision-specific inductive biases into their architectures, the plain ViT suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Zhe Chen , Yuchen Duan , Wenhai Wang , Junjun He , Tong Lu , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao

Multi-scale Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a powerful backbone for computer vision tasks, while the self-attention computation in Transformer scales quadratically w.r.t. the input patch number. Thus, existing solutions commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Ting Yao , Yingwei Pan , Yehao Li , Chong-Wah Ngo , Tao Mei

Inspired by the tremendous success of the self-attention mechanism in natural language processing, the Vision Transformer (ViT) creatively applies it to image patch sequences and achieves incredible performance. However, the scaled…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Yanhong Fei , Yingjie Liu , Xian Wei , Mingsong Chen

Vision Transformers (ViTs) achieve state-of-the-art segmentation accuracy but require large training datasets because each layer has unique parameters that must be learned independently. We present RD-ViT, a Recurrent-Depth Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Renjie He

Vision Transformers (ViTs) deliver state-of-the-art accuracy but their quadratic attention cost and redundant computations severely hinder deployment on latency and resource-constrained platforms. Existing pruning approaches treat either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Mohammad Helal Uddin , Liam Seymour , Sabur Baidya

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance but still require a high computation cost as compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs), one reason is that ViTs' attention measures global similarities and thus has a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Haoran You , Yunyang Xiong , Xiaoliang Dai , Bichen Wu , Peizhao Zhang , Haoqi Fan , Peter Vajda , Yingyan Celine Lin

Vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved promising results on a variety of Computer Vision tasks, however their quadratic complexity in the number of input tokens has limited their application specially in resource-constrained settings.…

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

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully applied in image classification tasks recently. In this paper, we show that, unlike convolution neural networks (CNNs)that can be improved by stacking more convolutional layers, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Daquan Zhou , Bingyi Kang , Xiaojie Jin , Linjie Yang , Xiaochen Lian , Zihang Jiang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

A Vision Transformer (ViT) is a simple neural architecture amenable to serve several computer vision tasks. It has limited built-in architectural priors, in contrast to more recent architectures that incorporate priors either about the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Hugo Touvron , Matthieu Cord , Hervé Jégou

As Vision Transformers (ViTs) are increasingly adopted in sensitive vision applications, there is a growing demand for improved interpretability. This has led to efforts to forward-align these models with carefully annotated abstract,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Sanchit Sinha , Guangzhi Xiong , Aidong Zhang

Recent advances on Vision Transformer (ViT) and its improved variants have shown that self-attention-based networks surpass traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in most vision tasks. However, existing ViTs focus on the standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xiaofeng Mao , Gege Qi , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaodan Li , Ranjie Duan , Shaokai Ye , Yuan He , Hui Xue

The recent amalgamation of transformer and convolutional designs has led to steady improvements in accuracy and efficiency of the models. In this work, we introduce FastViT, a hybrid vision transformer architecture that obtains the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Pavan Kumar Anasosalu Vasu , James Gabriel , Jeff Zhu , Oncel Tuzel , Anurag Ranjan