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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

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently received explosive popularity, but their enormous model sizes and training costs remain daunting. Conventional post-training pruning often incurs higher training budgets. In contrast, this paper aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Tianlong Chen , Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang , Zhangyang Wang

Vision Transformer (ViT) demonstrates that Transformer for natural language processing can be applied to computer vision tasks and result in comparable performance to convolutional neural networks (CNN), which have been studied and adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yi-Lun Liao , Sertac Karaman , Vivienne Sze

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently garnered considerable attention, emerging as a promising alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in several vision-related applications. However, their large model sizes and high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Dayou Du , Gu Gong , Xiaowen Chu

This work presents a simple vision transformer design as a strong baseline for object localization and instance segmentation tasks. Transformers recently demonstrate competitive performance in image classification tasks. To adopt ViT to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Wuyang Chen , Xianzhi Du , Fan Yang , Lucas Beyer , Xiaohua Zhai , Tsung-Yi Lin , Huizhong Chen , Jing Li , Xiaodan Song , Zhangyang Wang , Denny Zhou

Vision Transformers (ViTs) dominate self-supervised learning (SSL). While they have proven highly effective for large-scale pretraining, they are computationally inefficient and scale poorly with image size. Consequently, foundational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Nedyalko Prisadnikov , Danda Pani Paudel , Yuqian Fu , Luc Van Gool

Supervised learning can learn large representational spaces, which are crucial for handling difficult learning tasks. However, due to the design of the model, classical image classification approaches struggle to generalize to new problems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-16 Safwen Naimi , Rien van Leeuwen , Wided Souidene , Slim Ben Saoud

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have excelled in computer vision tasks but are memory-consuming and computation-intensive, challenging their deployment on resource-constrained devices. To tackle this limitation, prior works have explored…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Huihong Shi , Xin Cheng , Wendong Mao , Zhongfeng Wang

Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) has continuously established new milestones in the computer vision field, while the high computation and memory cost makes its propagation in industrial production difficult. Pruning, a traditional model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Zhenglun Kong , Peiyan Dong , Xiaolong Ma , Xin Meng , Mengshu Sun , Wei Niu , Xuan Shen , Geng Yuan , Bin Ren , Minghai Qin , Hao Tang , Yanzhi Wang

Recent advancements in vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated that larger models often achieve superior performance. However, training these models remains computationally intensive and costly. To address this challenge, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhiwei Hao , Jianyuan Guo , Li Shen , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Han Hu , Yunhe Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) partition input images into uniformly sized patches regardless of their content, resulting in long input sequence lengths for high-resolution images. We present Adaptive Patch Transformers (APT), which addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Rohan Choudhury , JungEun Kim , Jinhyung Park , Eunho Yang , László A. Jeni , Kris M. Kitani

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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in image processing tasks by utilizing self-attention mechanisms to capture global relationships within data. However, their scalability is hindered by significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Huy Trinh , Rebecca Ma , Zeqi Yu , Tahsin Reza

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

Our work tackles the computational challenges of contrastive learning methods, particularly for the pretraining of Vision Transformers (ViTs). Despite the effectiveness of contrastive learning, the substantial computational resources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jinhong Lin , Cheng-En Wu , Yibing Wei , Pedro Morgado

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

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

Vision transformers (ViTs) inherited the success of NLP but their structures have not been sufficiently investigated and optimized for visual tasks. One of the simplest solutions is to directly search the optimal one via the widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Xiu Su , Shan You , Jiyang Xie , Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Recently, foundation models based on Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become widely available. However, their fine-tuning process is highly resource-intensive, and it hinders their adoption in several edge or low-energy applications. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Alessio Devoto , Federico Alvetreti , Jary Pomponi , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Pasquale Minervini , Simone Scardapane

Vision foundation models achieve remarkable performance but are only available in a limited set of pre-determined sizes, forcing sub-optimal deployment choices under real-world constraints. We introduce SnapViT: Single-shot network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Walter Simoncini , Michael Dorkenwald , Tijmen Blankevoort , Cees G. M. Snoek , Yuki M. Asano