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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 (ViTs) achieve strong data-driven scaling by leveraging all-to-all self-attention. However, this flexibility incurs a computational cost that scales quadratically with image resolution, limiting ViTs in high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Alan Z. Song , Yinjie Chen , Mu Nan , Rui Zhang , Jiahang Cao , Weijian Mai , Muquan Yu , Hossein Adeli , Deva Ramanan , Michael J. Tarr , Andrew F. Luo

Vision Transformers (ViTs) can learn strong image-level representations while their patch representations become less effective for dense prediction during prolonged training. We revisit this dense degradation phenomenon and argue that it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Linxiang Su

Vision transformers (ViTs) are quickly becoming the de-facto architecture for computer vision, yet we understand very little about why they work and what they learn. While existing studies visually analyze the mechanisms of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Amin Ghiasi , Hamid Kazemi , Eitan Borgnia , Steven Reich , Manli Shu , Micah Goldblum , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Tom Goldstein

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have successfully been applied to image classification problems where large annotated datasets are available. On the other hand, when fewer annotations are available, such as in biomedical applications, image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Felipe A. Quezada , Carlos F. Navarro , Cristian Muñoz , Manuel Zamorano , Jorge Jara-Wilde , Violeta Chang , Cristóbal A. Navarro , Mauricio Cerda

Due to the high computation overhead of Vision Transformers (ViTs), In-memory Computing architectures are being researched towards energy-efficient deployment in edge-computing scenarios. Prior works have proposed efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Abhishek Moitra , Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Youngeun Kim , Priyadarshini Panda

Attention-based neural networks such as the Vision Transformer (ViT) have recently attained state-of-the-art results on many computer vision benchmarks. Scale is a primary ingredient in attaining excellent results, therefore, understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Xiaohua Zhai , Alexander Kolesnikov , Neil Houlsby , Lucas Beyer

Transformers have recently demonstrated strong performance in computer vision, with Vision Transformers (ViTs) leveraging self-attention to capture both low-level and high-level image features. However, standard ViTs remain computationally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Ali El Bellaj , Mohammed-Amine Cheddadi , Rhassan Berber

Causal thinking enables humans to understand not just what is seen, but why it happens. To replicate this capability in modern AI systems, we introduce the task of visual causal discovery. It requires models to infer cause-and-effect…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Yize Zhang , Meiqi Chen , Sirui Chen , Bo Peng , Yanxi Zhang , Tianyu Li , Chaochao Lu

Transformers, composed of multiple self-attention layers, hold strong promises toward a generic learning primitive applicable to different data modalities, including the recent breakthroughs in computer vision achieving state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Sayak Paul , Pin-Yu Chen

The major part of the vanilla vision transformer (ViT) is the attention block that brings the power of mimicking the global context of the input image. For better performance, ViT needs large-scale training data. To overcome this data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Ahmed Aldahdooh , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable performance in various image classification tasks by leveraging the attention mechanism to process image patches as tokens. However, the high computational and memory demands of ViTs pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Zhengqing Yuan , Rong Zhou , Hongyi Wang , Lifang He , Yanfang Ye , Lichao Sun

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in a variety of vision tasks. Despite their promising capabilities, training a ViT requires a large amount of diverse data. Several studies empirically found that using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Bum Jun Kim , Sang Woo Kim

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been widely used in large-scale Vision and Language Pre-training (VLP) models. Though previous VLP works have proved the effectiveness of ViTs, they still suffer from computational efficiency brought by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Chaoya Jiang , Haiyang Xu , Chenliang Li , Miang Yan , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Bin Bi , Songfang Huang

Vision Transformers (ViT) have marked a paradigm shift in computer vision, outperforming state-of-the-art models across diverse tasks. However, their practical deployment is hampered by high computational and memory demands. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Feiyang Chen , Ziqian Luo , Lisang Zhou , Xueting Pan , Ying Jiang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable success on large-scale datasets, but their performance on smaller datasets often falls short of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This paper explores the design and optimization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Gent Wu

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 rectangular tokens common to vision transformer methods for visual recognition can strongly affect performance of these methods due to incorporation of information outside the objects to be recognized. This paper introduces PaW-ViT,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Deeksha Arun , Kevin W. Bowyer , Patrick Flynn

This paper proposes a working recipe of using Vision Transformer (ViT) in class incremental learning. Although this recipe only combines existing techniques, developing the combination is not trivial. Firstly, naive application of ViT to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Pei Yu , Yinpeng Chen , Ying Jin , Zicheng Liu

In Natural Language Processing (NLP), Transformers have already revolutionized the field by utilizing an attention-based encoder-decoder model. Recently, some pioneering works have employed Transformer-like architectures in Computer Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Gousia Habib , Tausifa Jan Saleem , Brejesh Lall