English
Related papers

Related papers: Expediting Large-Scale Vision Transformer for Dens…

200 papers

Can we use sparse tokens for dense prediction, e.g., segmentation? Although token sparsification has been applied to Vision Transformers (ViT) to accelerate classification, it is still unknown how to perform segmentation from sparse tokens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Lei Zhou , Huidong Liu , Joseph Bae , Junjun He , Dimitris Samaras , Prateek Prasanna

In this paper, we propose a simple yet effective transformer framework for self-supervised learning called DenseDINO to learn dense visual representations. To exploit the spatial information that the dense prediction tasks require but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Yike Yuan , Xinghe Fu , Yunlong Yu , Xi Li

Utilizing transformer architectures for semantic segmentation of high-resolution images is hindered by the attention's quadratic computational complexity in the number of tokens. A solution to this challenge involves decreasing the number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Daniel Kienzle , Marco Kantonis , Robin Schön , Rainer Lienhart

This paper investigates how to efficiently deploy vision transformers on edge devices for small workloads. Recent methods reduce the latency of transformer neural networks by removing or merging tokens, with small accuracy degradation.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Nick John Eliopoulos , Purvish Jajal , James C. Davis , Gaowen Liu , George K. Thiravathukal , Yung-Hsiang Lu

Vision transformer has emerged as a new paradigm in computer vision, showing excellent performance while accompanied by expensive computational cost. Image token pruning is one of the main approaches for ViT compression, due to the facts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Xiangcheng Liu , Tianyi Wu , Guodong Guo

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have been widely adopted to guide vision foundation models in performing reasoning segmentation tasks, achieving impressive performance. However, the substantial computational overhead associated with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Hanning Chen , Yang Ni , Wenjun Huang , Hyunwoo Oh , Yezi Liu , Tamoghno Das , Mohsen Imani

Vision transformers have achieved significant improvements on various vision tasks but their quadratic interactions between tokens significantly reduce computational efficiency. Many pruning methods have been proposed to remove redundant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Sifan Long , Zhen Zhao , Jimin Pi , Shengsheng Wang , Jingdong Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as powerful models in the field of computer vision, delivering superior performance across various vision tasks. However, the high computational complexity poses a significant barrier to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Xinjian Wu , Fanhu Zeng , Xiudong Wang , Xinghao Chen

Token filtering to reduce irrelevant tokens prior to self-attention is a straightforward way to enable efficient vision Transformer. This is the first work to view token filtering from a feature selection perspective, where we weigh the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Hong Wang , Su Yang , Xiaoke Huang , Weishan Zhang

The computational overhead of Vision Transformers in practice stems fundamentally from their deep architectures, yet existing acceleration strategies have primarily targeted algorithmic-level optimizations such as token pruning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Chengwei Zhou , Vipin Chaudhary , Gourav Datta

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) rely on dense visual tokens to capture fine-grained visual information, but processing all these tokens incurs substantial computational and memory overhead during inference. To address this issue, we…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Xu Li , Yi Zheng , Yuxuan Liang , Zhe Liu , Xiaolei Chen , Haotian Chen , Rui Zhu , Xiangyang Xue

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

We propose a simple two-step approach for speeding up convolution layers within large convolutional neural networks based on tensor decomposition and discriminative fine-tuning. Given a layer, we use non-linear least squares to compute a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-04-27 Vadim Lebedev , Yaroslav Ganin , Maksim Rakhuba , Ivan Oseledets , Victor Lempitsky

In autoregressive (AR) image generation, visual tokenizers compress images into compact discrete latent tokens, enabling efficient training of downstream autoregressive models for visual generation via next-token prediction. While scaling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Tianwei Xiong , Jun Hao Liew , Zilong Huang , Jiashi Feng , Xihui Liu

This paper aims at rapid deployment of the state-of-the-art deep neural networks (DNNs) to energy efficient accelerators without time-consuming fine tuning or the availability of the full datasets. Converting DNNs in full precision to…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Jun Haeng Lee , Sangwon Ha , Saerom Choi , Won-Jo Lee , Seungwon Lee

Attention is sparse in vision transformers. We observe the final prediction in vision transformers is only based on a subset of most informative tokens, which is sufficient for accurate image recognition. Based on this observation, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Yongming Rao , Wenliang Zhao , Benlin Liu , Jiwen Lu , Jie Zhou , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Vision transformers have achieved great successes in many computer vision tasks. Most methods generate vision tokens by splitting an image into a regular and fixed grid and treating each cell as a token. However, not all regions are equally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Wang Zeng , Sheng Jin , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Ping Luo , Wanli Ouyang , Xiaogang Wang

Fine-grained recognition involves the classification of images from subordinate macro-categories, and it is challenging due to small inter-class differences. To overcome this, most methods perform discriminative feature selection enabled by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Edwin Arkel Rios , Min-Chun Hu , Bo-Cheng Lai

Transformer and its variants have shown state-of-the-art results in many vision tasks recently, ranging from image classification to dense prediction. Despite of their success, limited work has been reported on improving the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 John Yang , Le An , Anurag Dixit , Jinkyu Koo , Su Inn Park

Query-based Vision Transformer segmentation models typically reconstruct dense spatial feature maps to predict masks, inheriting design patterns from convolutional architectures. We show that this explicit image-space reconstruction is not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Calvin Galagain , Martyna Poreba , François Goulette