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Several recent studies have demonstrated that attention-based networks, such as Vision Transformer (ViT), can outperform Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) on several computer vision tasks without using convolutional layers. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Shanda Li , Xiangning Chen , Di He , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Model binarization can significantly compress model size, reduce energy consumption, and accelerate inference through efficient bit-wise operations. Although binarizing convolutional neural networks have been extensively studied, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Yefei He , Zhenyu Lou , Luoming Zhang , Jing Liu , Weijia Wu , Hong Zhou , Bohan Zhuang

Although Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently demonstrated superior performance in medical imaging problems, they face explainability issues similar to previous architectures such as convolutional neural networks. Recent research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Minjae Chung , Jong Bum Won , Ganghyun Kim , Yujin Kim , Utku Ozbulak

Mechanistic interpretability improves the safety, reliability, and robustness of large AI models. This study examined individual attention heads in vision transformers (ViTs) fine tuned on distorted 2D spectrogram images containing non…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Nooshin Bahador

Recently vision transformers (ViT) have been applied successfully for various tasks in computer vision. However, important questions such as why they work or how they behave still remain largely unknown. In this paper, we propose an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Van-Anh Nguyen , Khanh Pham Dinh , Long Tung Vuong , Thanh-Toan Do , Quan Hung Tran , Dinh Phung , Trung Le

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently garnered considerable attention, emerging as a promising alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in several vision-related applications. However, their large model sizes and high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Dayou Du , Gu Gong , Xiaowen Chu

Reasoning about visual relationships is central to how humans interpret the visual world. This task remains challenging for current deep learning algorithms since it requires addressing three key technical problems jointly: 1) identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Xiaojian Ma , Weili Nie , Zhiding Yu , Huaizu Jiang , Chaowei Xiao , Yuke Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu , Anima Anandkumar

Recent state-of-the-art performances of Vision Transformers (ViT) in computer vision tasks demonstrate that a general-purpose architecture, which implements long-range self-attention, could replace the local feature learning operations of…

Transformer becomes more popular in the vision domain in recent years so there is a need for finding an effective way to interpret the Transformer model by visualizing it. In recent work, Chefer et al. can visualize the Transformer on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Hoang C. Nguyen , Haeil Lee , Junmo Kim

Vision Transformers (ViTs) mark a revolutionary advance in neural networks with their token mixer's powerful global context capability. However, the pairwise token affinity and complex matrix operations limit its deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Tianfang Zhang , Lei Li , Yang Zhou , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Xiangyang Ji

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 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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become a universal backbone for both image recognition and image generation. Yet their Multi-Head Self-Attention (MHSA) layer still performs a quadratic query-key interaction for every token pair, spending…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Yifan Pu , Jixuan Ying , Qixiu Li , Tianzhu Ye , Dongchen Han , Xiaochen Wang , Ziyi Wang , Xinyu Shao , Gao Huang , Xiu Li

In recent years, vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as powerful and promising techniques for computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection, and segmentation. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shaibal Saha , Lanyu Xu

While Transformers have rapidly gained popularity in various computer vision applications, post-hoc explanations of their internal mechanisms remain largely unexplored. Vision Transformers extract visual information by representing image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Junyi Wu , Bin Duan , Weitai Kang , Hao Tang , Yan Yan

Recent advances on Vision Transformer (ViT) and its improved variants have shown that self-attention-based networks surpass traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in most vision tasks. However, existing ViTs focus on the standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xiaofeng Mao , Gege Qi , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaodan Li , Ranjie Duan , Shaokai Ye , Yuan He , Hui Xue

Intrigued by the inherent ability of the human visual system to identify salient regions in complex scenes, attention mechanisms have been seamlessly integrated into various Computer Vision (CV) tasks. Building upon this paradigm, Vision…

Visual transformers have achieved remarkable performance in image classification tasks, but this performance gain has come at the cost of interpretability. One of the main obstacles to the interpretation of transformers is the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-25 Guillaume Jeanneret , Loïc Simon , Frédéric Jurie

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown strong empirical performance on high-dimensional medical imaging data, yet their behavior under survival objectives and the interpretability of their attention mechanisms remain poorly understood. Under…

Medical Physics · Physics 2026-04-24 Qiyuan Shi , Yi Li

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance on many Computer Vision Tasks. Unfortunately, deploying these large-scale ViTs is resource-consuming and impossible for many mobile devices. While most in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Nahid Alam , Steven Kolawole , Simardeep Sethi , Nishant Bansali , Karina Nguyen