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Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated their superior accuracy for computer vision tasks compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, ViT models are often computation-intensive for efficient deployment on…

Vision Transformers (ViT) have shown their competitive advantages performance-wise compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) though they often come with high computational costs. To this end, previous methods explore different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Cong Wei , Brendan Duke , Ruowei Jiang , Parham Aarabi , Graham W. Taylor , Florian Shkurti

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)…

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on various computer vision tasks. However, their high computational complexity prevents them from being applied to many real-world applications. Weight and token pruning are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Dhruv Parikh , Shouyi Li , Bingyi Zhang , Rajgopal Kannan , Carl Busart , Viktor Prasanna

Vision transformer (ViT) models exhibit substandard optimizability. In particular, they are sensitive to the choice of optimizer (AdamW vs. SGD), optimizer hyperparameters, and training schedule length. In comparison, modern convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Tete Xiao , Mannat Singh , Eric Mintun , Trevor Darrell , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been widely used in large-scale Vision and Language Pre-training (VLP) models. Though previous VLP works have proved the effectiveness of ViTs, they still suffer from computational efficiency brought by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Chaoya Jiang , Haiyang Xu , Chenliang Li , Miang Yan , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Bin Bi , Songfang Huang

Due to its deficiency in prior knowledge (inductive bias), Vision Transformer (ViT) requires pre-training on large-scale datasets to perform well. Moreover, the growing layers and parameters in ViT models impede their applicability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chenhao Xu , Chang-Tsun Li , Chee Peng Lim , Douglas Creighton

We present in this paper a new architecture, named Convolutional vision Transformer (CvT), that improves Vision Transformer (ViT) in performance and efficiency by introducing convolutions into ViT to yield the best of both designs. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Haiping Wu , Bin Xiao , Noel Codella , Mengchen Liu , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang

The attention module in vision transformers(ViTs) performs intricate spatial correlations, contributing significantly to accuracy and delay. It is thereby important to modulate the number of attentions according to the input feature…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Abhishek Moitra , Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Priyadarshini Panda

Vision Transformer (ViT) has prevailed in computer vision tasks due to its strong long-range dependency modelling ability. \textcolor{blue}{However, its large model size and weak local feature modeling ability hinder its application in real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Yi Zhang , Lingxiao Wei , Bowei Zhang , Ziwei Liu , Kai Yi , Shu Hu

Recent advances of Transformers have brought new trust to computer vision tasks. However, on small dataset, Transformers is hard to train and has lower performance than convolutional neural networks. We make vision transformers as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Bin Chen , Ran Wang , Di Ming , Xin Feng

In this paper, we present a new approach for model acceleration by exploiting spatial sparsity in visual data. We observe that the final prediction in vision Transformers is only based on a subset of the most informative tokens, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yongming Rao , Zuyan Liu , Wenliang Zhao , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Detecting plant diseases is a crucial aspect of modern agriculture, as it plays a key role in maintaining crop health and increasing overall yield. Traditional approaches, though still valuable, often rely on manual inspection or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Saber Mehdipour , Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel , Seyed Amirhossein Tabatabaei

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance in computer vision, but their high computational cost, quadratic in the number of tokens, limits their adoption in computation-constrained applications. However, this large number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yifei Liu , Mathias Gehrig , Nico Messikommer , Marco Cannici , Davide Scaramuzza

When considering post-training quantization, prior work has typically focused on developing a mixed precision scheme or learning the best way to partition a network for quantization. In our work, CPT-V, we look at a general way to improve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Natalia Frumkin , Dibakar Gope , Diana Marculescu

The Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture has become widely recognized in computer vision, leveraging its self-attention mechanism to achieve remarkable success across various tasks. Despite its strengths, ViT's optimization remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Haoyu Yun , Hamid Krim

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

Dense computer vision tasks such as object detection and segmentation require effective multi-scale feature representation for detecting or classifying objects or regions with varying sizes. While Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Youngwan Lee , Jonghee Kim , Jeff Willette , Sung Ju Hwang

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved impressive results across various vision tasks, yet its high computational cost limits practical applications. Recent methods have aimed to reduce ViT's $O(n^2)$ complexity by pruning unimportant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yi-Kuan Hsieh , Jun-Wei Hsieh , Xin Li , Yu-Ming Chang , Yu-Chee Tseng

Recent advances in Vision Transformer (ViT) have demonstrated its impressive performance in image classification, which makes it a promising alternative to Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). Unlike CNNs, ViT represents an input image as a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-19 Jindong Gu , Volker Tresp , Yao Qin