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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…

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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

Transformer-based approaches have achieved superior performance in image restoration, since they can model long-term dependencies well. However, the limitation in capturing local information restricts their capacity to remove degradations.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Shihao Zhou , Duosheng Chen , Jinshan Pan , Jufeng Yang

The Vision Transformer (ViT) has made significant strides in the field of computer vision. However, as the depth of the model and the resolution of the input images increase, the computational cost associated with training and running ViT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xinfeng Zhao , Yaoru Sun

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently brought a new wave of research in the field of computer vision. These models have performed particularly well in image classification and segmentation. Research on semantic and instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ashim Dahal , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi

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 Transformer (ViT), a radically different architecture than convolutional neural networks offers multiple advantages including design simplicity, robustness and state-of-the-art performance on many vision tasks. However, in contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hanan Gani , Muzammal Naseer , Mohammad Yaqub

Vision Transformers have attracted a lot of attention recently since the successful implementation of Vision Transformer (ViT) on vision tasks. With vision Transformers, specifically the multi-head self-attention modules, networks can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Xiangyu Chen , Ying Qin , Wenju Xu , Andrés M. Bur , Cuncong Zhong , Guanghui Wang

Transformers, which are popular for language modeling, have been explored for solving vision tasks recently, e.g., the Vision Transformer (ViT) for image classification. The ViT model splits each image into a sequence of tokens with fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Li Yuan , Yunpeng Chen , Tao Wang , Weihao Yu , Yujun Shi , Zihang Jiang , Francis EH Tay , Jiashi Feng , Shuicheng Yan

Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated promising performance in computer vision tasks, comparable to state-of-the-art neural networks. Yet, this new type of deep neural network architecture is vulnerable to adversarial attacks limiting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-02 Shashank Kotyan , Danilo Vasconcellos Vargas

Vision transformers have been successfully applied to image recognition tasks due to their ability to capture long-range dependencies within an image. However, there are still gaps in both performance and computational cost between…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-15 Jianyuan Guo , Kai Han , Han Wu , Yehui Tang , Xinghao Chen , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu

With the success of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in computer vision tasks, recent arts try to optimize the performance and complexity of ViTs to enable efficient deployment on mobile devices. Multiple approaches are proposed to accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yanyu Li , Ju Hu , Yang Wen , Georgios Evangelidis , Kamyar Salahi , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

There still remains an extreme performance gap between Vision Transformers (ViTs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) when training from scratch on small datasets, which is concluded to the lack of inductive bias. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Zhiying Lu , Hongtao Xie , Chuanbin Liu , Yongdong Zhang

Medical image segmentation plays a crucial role in various healthcare applications, enabling accurate diagnosis, treatment planning, and disease monitoring. Traditionally, convolutional neural networks (CNNs) dominated this domain,…

In robot learning, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are standard for visual perception, yet most methods discard valuable information by using only the final layer's features. We argue this provides an insufficient representation and propose the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Wenhao Li , Chengwei Ma , Weixin Mao

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

Although Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved significant success in computer vision, it does not perform well in dense prediction tasks due to the lack of inner-patch information interaction and the limited diversity of feature scale.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Chunlong Xia , Xinliang Wang , Feng Lv , Xin Hao , Yifeng Shi

Recently, the vision transformer (ViT) has made breakthroughs in image recognition. Its self-attention mechanism (MSA) can extract discriminative labeling information of different pixel blocks to improve image classification accuracy.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-28 Chao Hu , Liqiang Zhu , Weibin Qiu , Weijie Wu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) is emerging as an alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for visual recognition. They achieve competitive results with CNNs but the lack of the typical convolutional inductive bias makes them more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Yun-Hao Cao , Hao Yu , Jianxin Wu

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been an alternative design paradigm to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, the training of ViTs is much harder than CNNs, as it is sensitive to the training parameters, such as learning rate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Pichao Wang , Xue Wang , Hao Luo , Jingkai Zhou , Zhipeng Zhou , Fan Wang , Hao Li , Rong Jin