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Vision transformers (ViT) usually extract features via forwarding all the tokens in the self-attention layers from top to toe. In this paper, we introduce dynamic token-pass vision transformers (DoViT) for semantic segmentation, which can…

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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved significant success in computer vision. However, their intensive computations and massive memory footprint challenge ViTs' deployment on embedded devices, calling for efficient ViTs. Among them,…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Haikuo Shao , Huihong Shi , Wendong Mao , Zhongfeng Wang

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

Recently, vision transformer (ViT) and its variants have achieved promising performances in various computer vision tasks. Yet the high computational costs and training data requirements of ViTs limit their application in…

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Vision Transformers (ViTs) leverage the transformer architecture to effectively capture global context, demonstrating strong performance in computer vision tasks. A major challenge in ViT hardware acceleration is that the model family…

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Although vision transformers (ViTs) have shown promising results in various computer vision tasks recently, their high computational cost limits their practical applications. Previous approaches that prune redundant tokens have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-24 Siyuan Wei , Tianzhu Ye , Shen Zhang , Yao Tang , Jiajun Liang

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

The quadratic computational complexity to the number of tokens limits the practical applications of Vision Transformers (ViTs). Several works propose to prune redundant tokens to achieve efficient ViTs. However, these methods generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Ming Lin , Fan Wang , David Junhao Zhang , Rong Jin , Mike Zheng Shou

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged with superior performance on computer vision tasks compared to convolutional neural network (CNN)-based models. However, ViTs are mainly designed for image classification that generate single-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Jiaqi Gu , Hyoukjun Kwon , Dilin Wang , Wei Ye , Meng Li , Yu-Hsin Chen , Liangzhen Lai , Vikas Chandra , David Z. Pan

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 transformers (ViTs) have gained popularity recently. Even without customized image operators such as convolutions, ViTs can yield competitive performance when properly trained on massive data. However, the computational overhead of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Shixing Yu , Tianlong Chen , Jiayi Shen , Huan Yuan , Jianchao Tan , Sen Yang , Ji Liu , Zhangyang Wang

Built on top of self-attention mechanisms, vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance on a variety of vision tasks recently. While achieving excellent performance, they still require relatively intensive computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Lingchen Meng , Hengduo Li , Bor-Chun Chen , Shiyi Lan , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Ser-Nam Lim

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated their superior accuracy for computer vision tasks compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, ViT models are often computation-intensive for efficient deployment on…

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a state-of-the-art solution for object classification tasks. However, their computational demands and high parameter count make them unsuitable for real-time inference, prompting the need for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-16 Kyle Marino , Pengmiao Zhang , Viktor Prasanna

Due to its deficiency in prior knowledge (inductive bias), Vision Transformer (ViT) requires pre-training on large-scale datasets to perform well. Moreover, the growing layers and parameters in ViT models impede their applicability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chenhao Xu , Chang-Tsun Li , Chee Peng Lim , Douglas Creighton

Visual Prompt Tuning (VPT) is an effective tuning method for adapting pretrained Vision Transformers (ViTs) to downstream tasks. It leverages extra learnable tokens, known as prompts, which steer the frozen pretrained ViTs. Although VPT has…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Seungryong Yoo , Eunji Kim , Dahuin Jung , Jungbeom Lee , Sungroh Yoon

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

We design a family of image classification architectures that optimize the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency in a high-speed regime. Our work exploits recent findings in attention-based architectures, which are competitive on highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ben Graham , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Hugo Touvron , Pierre Stock , Armand Joulin , Hervé Jégou , Matthijs Douze

Vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a prevalent architecture for vision tasks owing to their impressive performance. However, when it comes to handling long token sequences, especially in dense prediction tasks that require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Jin Li , Yaoming Wang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Bowen Shi , Dongsheng Jiang , Chenglin Li , Wenrui Dai , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

Despite achieving remarkable performance on various vision-language tasks, Transformer-based Vision-Language Models (VLMs) suffer from redundancy in inputs and parameters, significantly hampering their efficiency in real-world applications.…

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