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The quadratic complexity of dot-product attention introduced in Transformer remains a fundamental bottleneck impeding the progress of foundation models toward unbounded context lengths. Addressing this challenge, we introduce the Deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Yifan Zhang

Mixup is a commonly adopted data augmentation technique for image classification. Recent advances in mixup methods primarily focus on mixing based on saliency. However, many saliency detectors require intense computation and are especially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Hyeong Kyu Choi , Joonmyung Choi , Hyunwoo J. Kim

In the field of computer vision, recent works show that a pure MLP architecture mainly stacked by fully-connected layers can achieve competing performance with CNN and transformer. An input image of vision MLP is usually split into multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-07 Yehui Tang , Kai Han , Jianyuan Guo , Chang Xu , Yanxi Li , Chao Xu , Yunhe Wang

The generalization of the Transformer architecture via MetaFormer has reshaped our understanding of its success in computer vision. By replacing self-attention with simpler token mixers, MetaFormer provides strong baselines for vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Ron Keuth , Paul Kaftan , Mattias P. Heinrich

Is it always necessary to compute tokens from shallow to deep layers in Transformers? The continued success of vanilla Transformers and their variants suggests an undoubted "yes". In this work, however, we attempt to break the depth-ordered…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Zhuocheng Gong , Ang Lv , Jian Guan , Junxi Yan , Wei Wu , Huishuai Zhang , Minlie Huang , Dongyan Zhao , Rui Yan

Since the introduction of the Transformer architecture for large language models, the softmax-based attention layer has faced increasing scrutinity due to its quadratic-time computational complexity. Attempts have been made to replace it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Robert Forchheimer

This paper studies how to keep a vision backbone effective while removing token mixers in its basic building blocks. Token mixers, as self-attention for vision transformers (ViTs), are intended to perform information communication between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-13 Jiahao Wang , Songyang Zhang , Yong Liu , Taiqiang Wu , Yujiu Yang , Xihui Liu , Kai Chen , Ping Luo , Dahua Lin

For the past ten years, CNN has reigned supreme in the world of computer vision, but recently, Transformer has been on the rise. However, the quadratic computational cost of self-attention has become a serious problem in practice…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Yuki Tatsunami , Masato Taki

Recently, transformer and multi-layer perceptron (MLP) architectures have achieved impressive results on various vision tasks. A few works investigated manually combining those operators to design visual network architectures, and can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Jihao Liu , Hongsheng Li , Guanglu Song , Xin Huang , Yu Liu

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are the go-to model for computer vision. Recently, attention-based networks, such as the Vision Transformer, have also become popular. In this paper we show that while convolutions and attention are both…

In recent years, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), MLP-mixers, and Vision Transformers have risen to prominence as leading neural architectures in image classification. Prior research has underscored the distinct advantages of each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Mk Bashar , Ocean Monjur , Samia Islam , Mohammad Galib Shams , Niamul Quader

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) networks have been proposed as an efficient way to scale up model capacity and implement conditional computing. However, the study of MoE components mostly focused on the feedforward layer in Transformer…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-12 Xiaofeng Zhang , Yikang Shen , Zeyu Huang , Jie Zhou , Wenge Rong , Zhang Xiong

Medical image segmentation is essential for clinical diagnosis and treatment planning. Although transformer-based methods have achieved remarkable results, their high computational cost hinders clinical deployment. To address this issue, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yaxuan Jiao , Qing Xu , Yuxiang Luo , Xiangjian He , Zhen Chen , Wenting Duan

Recently, visual Transformer (ViT) and its following works abandon the convolution and exploit the self-attention operation, attaining a comparable or even higher accuracy than CNNs. More recently, MLP-Mixer abandons both the convolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-24 Tan Yu , Xu Li , Yunfeng Cai , Mingming Sun , Ping Li

This paper introduces the Polynomial Mixer (PoM), a novel token mixing mechanism with linear complexity that serves as a drop-in replacement for self-attention. PoM aggregates input tokens into a compact representation through a learned…

In this paper, we propose Mixture of Layer-Wise Tokens (MoLT), a parameter- and memory-efficient adaptation framework for audio-visual learning. The key idea of MoLT is to replace conventional, computationally heavy sequential adaptation at…

Sound · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Kyeongha Rho , Hyeongkeun Lee , Jae Won Cho , Joon Son Chung

Vision transformers have delivered tremendous success in representation learning. This is primarily due to effective token mixing through self attention. However, this scales quadratically with the number of pixels, which becomes infeasible…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 John Guibas , Morteza Mardani , Zongyi Li , Andrew Tao , Anima Anandkumar , Bryan Catanzaro

Transformer with self-attention has led to the revolutionizing of natural language processing field, and recently inspires the emergence of Transformer-style architecture design with competitive results in numerous computer vision tasks.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-27 Yehao Li , Ting Yao , Yingwei Pan , Tao Mei

Multi-task learning (MTL) and attention mechanism have been proven to effectively extract robust acoustic features for various speech-related tasks in noisy environments. In this study, we propose an attention-based MTL (ATM) approach that…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2021-02-23 Chiang-Jen Peng , Yun-Ju Chan , Cheng Yu , Syu-Siang Wang , Yu Tsao , Tai-Shih Chi

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated strong performance across a range of computer vision tasks by modeling long-range spatial interactions via self-attention. However, channel-wise mixing in ViTs remains static, relying on fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Aon Safdar , Mohamed Saadeldin