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Deep neural networks have been shown to learn and rely on spurious correlations present in the data that they are trained on. Reliance on such correlations can cause these networks to malfunction when deployed in the real world, where these…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Varun Mulchandani , Jung-Eun Kim

We investigate the robustness of vision transformers (ViTs) through the lens of their special patch-based architectural structure, i.e., they process an image as a sequence of image patches. We find that ViTs are surprisingly insensitive to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-23 Yao Qin , Chiyuan Zhang , Ting Chen , Balaji Lakshminarayanan , Alex Beutel , Xuezhi Wang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have become the de facto gold standard in computer vision applications in the past years. Recently, however, new model architectures have been proposed challenging the status quo. The Vision Transformer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Philipp Benz , Soomin Ham , Chaoning Zhang , Adil Karjauv , In So Kweon

Neural networks with self-attention (a.k.a. Transformers) like ViT and Swin have emerged as a better alternative to traditional convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, our understanding of how the new architecture works is still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Juyeop Kim , Junha Park , Songkuk Kim , Jong-Seok Lee

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are becoming more popular and dominating technique for various vision tasks, compare to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). As a demanding technique in computer vision, ViTs have been successfully solved various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Khawar Islam

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved comparable or superior performance than Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in computer vision. This empirical breakthrough is even more remarkable since, in contrast to CNNs, ViTs do not embed any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Samy Jelassi , Michael E. Sander , Yuanzhi Li

Recent advances in attention-based networks have shown that Vision Transformers can achieve state-of-the-art or near state-of-the-art results on many image classification tasks. This puts transformers in the unique position of being a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Kaleel Mahmood , Rigel Mahmood , Marten van Dijk

The Vision Transformer has emerged as a powerful tool for image classification tasks, surpassing the performance of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Recently, many researchers have attempted to understand the robustness of Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-18 Gihyun Kim , Juyeop Kim , Jong-Seok Lee

Vision Transformers (ViTs) that leverage self-attention mechanism have shown superior performance on many classical vision tasks compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and gain increasing popularity recently. Existing ViTs works…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-04-29 Xinghua Xue , Cheng Liu , Ying Wang , Bing Yang , Tao Luo , Lei Zhang , Huawei Li , Xiaowei Li

Modern machine learning models for computer vision exceed humans in accuracy on specific visual recognition tasks, notably on datasets like ImageNet. However, high accuracy can be achieved in many ways. The particular decision function…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Shikhar Tuli , Ishita Dasgupta , Erin Grant , Thomas L. Griffiths

Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have so far been the de-facto model for visual data. Recent work has shown that (Vision) Transformer models (ViT) can achieve comparable or even superior performance on image classification tasks. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Maithra Raghu , Thomas Unterthiner , Simon Kornblith , Chiyuan Zhang , Alexey Dosovitskiy

Label noise in medical image classification datasets significantly hampers the training of supervised deep learning methods, undermining their generalizability. The test performance of a model tends to decrease as the label noise rate…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-27 Bidur Khanal , Prashant Shrestha , Sanskar Amgain , Bishesh Khanal , Binod Bhattarai , Cristian A. Linte

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision sometimes struggle with understanding images in a global context, as they mainly focus on local patterns. On the other hand, Vision Transformers (ViTs), inspired by models originally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dimitrios N. Vlachogiannis , Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have gained significant popularity in recent years and have proliferated into many applications. However, their behavior under different learning paradigms is not well explored. We compare ViTs trained through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Matthew Walmer , Saksham Suri , Kamal Gupta , Abhinav Shrivastava

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently achieved competitive performance in broad vision tasks. Unfortunately, on popular threat models, naturally trained ViTs are shown to provide no more adversarial robustness than convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Yichuan Mo , Dongxian Wu , Yifei Wang , Yiwen Guo , Yisen Wang

Vision Transformer (ViT) is emerging as the state-of-the-art architecture for image recognition. While recent studies suggest that ViTs are more robust than their convolutional counterparts, our experiments find that ViTs trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Chengzhi Mao , Lu Jiang , Mostafa Dehghani , Carl Vondrick , Rahul Sukthankar , Irfan Essa

Deep neural classifiers tend to rely on spurious correlations between spurious attributes of inputs and targets to make predictions, which could jeopardize their generalization capability. Training classifiers robust to spurious…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Guangtao Zheng , Wenqian Ye , Aidong Zhang

Spurious correlations are brittle associations between certain attributes of inputs and target variables, such as the correlation between an image background and an object class. Deep image classifiers often leverage them for predictions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Guangtao Zheng , Wenqian Ye , Aidong Zhang

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have advanced existing medical systems for automatic disease diagnosis. However, there are still concerns about the reliability of deep medical diagnosis systems against the potential threats of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-21 Omid Nejati Manzari , Hamid Ahmadabadi , Hossein Kashiani , Shahriar B. Shokouhi , Ahmad Ayatollahi

Recent research on the robustness of deep learning has shown that Vision Transformers (ViTs) surpass the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) under some perturbations, e.g., natural corruption, adversarial attacks, etc. Some papers argue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Zheng Wang , Wenjie Ruan