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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance but still require a high computation cost as compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs), one reason is that ViTs' attention measures global similarities and thus has a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Haoran You , Yunyang Xiong , Xiaoliang Dai , Bichen Wu , Peizhao Zhang , Haoqi Fan , Peter Vajda , Yingyan Celine Lin

As a special type of transformer, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are used to various computer vision applications (CV), such as image recognition. There are several potential problems with convolutional neural networks (CNNs) that can be solved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Sonain Jamil , Md. Jalil Piran , Oh-Jin Kwon

Vision Transformers (ViTs), with their ability to model long-range dependencies through self-attention mechanisms, have become a standard architecture in computer vision. However, the interpretability of these models remains a challenge. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Walid Bousselham , Angie Boggust , Sofian Chaybouti , Hendrik Strobelt , Hilde Kuehne

Attention-based vision models, such as Vision Transformer (ViT) and its variants, have shown promising performance in various computer vision tasks. However, these emerging architectures suffer from large model sizes and high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jinqi Xiao , Miao Yin , Yu Gong , Xiao Zang , Jian Ren , Bo Yuan

The emergence of vision transformers (ViTs) in image classification has shifted the methodologies for visual representation learning. In particular, ViTs learn visual representation at full receptive field per layer across all the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-05 Li Zhang , Jiachen Lu , Sixiao Zheng , Xinxuan Zhao , Xiatian Zhu , Yanwei Fu , Tao Xiang , Jianfeng Feng , Philip H. S. Torr

Although convolutional networks have been the dominant architecture for vision tasks for many years, recent experiments have shown that Transformer-based models, most notably the Vision Transformer (ViT), may exceed their performance in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-25 Asher Trockman , J. Zico Kolter

Vision transformers (ViTs) have significantly changed the computer vision landscape and have periodically exhibited superior performance in vision tasks compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Although the jury is still out on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Ariel N. Lee , Sarah Adel Bargal , Janavi Kasera , Stan Sclaroff , Kate Saenko , Nataniel Ruiz

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

Importance estimators are explainability methods that quantify feature importance for deep neural networks (DNN). In vision transformers (ViT), the self-attention mechanism naturally leads to attention maps, which are sometimes interpreted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-28 Lennart Brocki , Jakub Binda , Neo Christopher Chung

Advances in multi-modal embeddings, and in particular CLIP, have recently driven several breakthroughs in Computer Vision (CV). CLIP has shown impressive performance on a variety of tasks, yet, its inherently opaque architecture may hinder…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Loris Giulivi , Giacomo Boracchi

Robustness has become one of the most critical problems in machine learning (ML). The science of interpreting ML models to understand their behavior and improve their robustness is referred to as explainable artificial intelligence (XAI).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Patrick Koller , Amil V. Dravid , Guido M. Schuster , Aggelos K. Katsaggelos

Transformer, an attention-based encoder-decoder architecture, has not only revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP), but has also done some pioneering work in the field of computer vision (CV). Compared to convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-25 Zujun Fu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as state-of-the-art models for various vision tasks recently. However, their heavy computation costs remain daunting for resource-limited devices. To address this, researchers have dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ao Wang , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Sicheng Zhao , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have gained rapid adoption in computational pathology for their ability to model long-range dependencies through self-attention, addressing the limitations of convolutional neural networks that excel at local…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-15 Fuyao Chen , Yuexi Du , Elèonore V. Lieffrig , Nicha C. Dvornek , John A. Onofrey

The extension of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to non-Euclidean geometries has led to multiple frameworks for studying manifolds. Many of those methods have shown design limitations resulting in poor modelling of long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Simon Dahan , Logan Z. J. Williams , Abdulah Fawaz , Daniel Rueckert , Emma C. Robinson

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in a variety of vision tasks, replacing convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Meanwhile, since ViT has a different architecture than CNN, it may behave…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-17 Bum Jun Kim , Hyeyeon Choi , Hyeonah Jang , Dong Gu Lee , Wonseok Jeong , Sang Woo Kim

Recent advances in Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) model interpretability have led to impressive progress in visualizing and understanding model predictions. In particular, gradient-based visual attention methods have driven much recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-15 Wenqian Liu , Runze Li , Meng Zheng , Srikrishna Karanam , Ziyan Wu , Bir Bhanu , Richard J. Radke , Octavia Camps

Understanding the internal activations of Vision Transformers (ViTs) is critical for building interpretable and trustworthy models. While Sparse Autoencoders (SAEs) have been used to extract human-interpretable features, they operate on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Gerasimos Chatzoudis , Konstantinos D. Polyzos , Zhuowei Li , Difei Gu , Gemma E. Moran , Hao Wang , Dimitris N. Metaxas

For state-of-the-art image understanding, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become the standard architecture but their processing diverges substantially from human attentional characteristics. We investigate whether this cognitive gap can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Ethan Knights

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance for various vision tasks. One reason behind the success lies in their ability to provide plausible innate explanations for the behavior of neural architectures. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Lijie Hu , Yixin Liu , Ninghao Liu , Mengdi Huai , Lichao Sun , Di Wang