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Current natural language processing (NLP) research tends to focus on only one or, less frequently, two dimensions - e.g., performance, privacy, fairness, or efficiency - at a time, which may lead to suboptimal conclusions and often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Minh Duc Bui , Katharina von der Wense

Transformers have been recently adapted for large scale image classification, achieving high scores shaking up the long supremacy of convolutional neural networks. However the optimization of image transformers has been little studied so…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-08 Hugo Touvron , Matthieu Cord , Alexandre Sablayrolles , Gabriel Synnaeve , Hervé Jégou

Vision transformers have shown great success due to their high model capabilities. However, their remarkable performance is accompanied by heavy computation costs, which makes them unsuitable for real-time applications. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Xinyu Liu , Houwen Peng , Ningxin Zheng , Yuqing Yang , Han Hu , Yixuan Yuan

Transformers, the de-facto standard for language modeling, have been recently applied for vision tasks. This paper introduces sparse queries for vision transformers to exploit the intrinsic spatial redundancy of natural images and save…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-11 Lin Song , Songyang Zhang , Songtao Liu , Zeming Li , Xuming He , Hongbin Sun , Jian Sun , Nanning Zheng

Transformers have shown outstanding results for natural language understanding and, more recently, for image classification. We here extend this work and propose a transformer-based approach for image retrieval: we adopt vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-11 Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Natalia Neverova , Ivan Laptev , Hervé Jégou

Pretraining Vision Transformers (ViTs) has achieved great success in visual recognition. A following scenario is to adapt a ViT to various image and video recognition tasks. The adaptation is challenging because of heavy computation and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Shoufa Chen , Chongjian Ge , Zhan Tong , Jiangliu Wang , Yibing Song , Jue Wang , Ping Luo

Transformers exhibit great advantages in handling computer vision tasks. They model image classification tasks by utilizing a multi-head attention mechanism to process a series of patches consisting of split images. However, for complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Witold Pedrycz , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei

In recent years, Transformer has achieved good results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and has also started to expand into Computer Vision (CV). Excellent models such as the Vision Transformer and Swin Transformer have emerged. At the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Wei Hu , Dian Xu , Zimeng Fan , Fang Liu , Yanxiang He

How do vision transformers (ViTs) represent and process the world? This paper addresses this long-standing question through the first systematic analysis of 6.6K features across all layers, extracted via sparse autoencoders, and by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jinyeong Kim , Junhyeok Kim , Yumin Shim , Joohyeok Kim , Sunyoung Jung , Seong Jae Hwang

Motivated by the success of transformers in various fields, such as language understanding and image analysis, this investigation explores their application in the context of the game of Go. In particular, our study focuses on the analysis…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Amani Sagri , Tristan Cazenave , Jérôme Arjonilla , Abdallah Saffidine

Video frame interpolation is an increasingly important research task with several key industrial applications in the video coding, broadcast and production sectors. Recently, transformers have been introduced to the field resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-14 Issa Khalifeh , Luka Murn , Marta Mrak , Ebroul Izquierdo

Vision transformer based models bring significant improvements for image segmentation tasks. Although these architectures offer powerful capabilities irrespective of specific segmentation tasks, their use of computational resources can be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-01 Manyi Yao , Abhishek Aich , Yumin Suh , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , Christian Shelton , Manmohan Chandraker

Transformers have emerged as the state-of-the-art architecture in medical image registration, outperforming convolutional neural networks (CNNs) by addressing their limited receptive fields and overcoming gradient instability in deeper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Abu Zahid Bin Aziz , Mokshagna Sai Teja Karanam , Tushar Kataria , Shireen Y. Elhabian

This paper tackles the problem of efficient video recognition. In this area, video transformers have recently dominated the efficiency (top-1 accuracy vs FLOPs) spectrum. At the same time, there have been some attempts in the image domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Adrian Bulat , Brais Martinez , Georgios Tzimiropoulos

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved excellent performance and demonstrated its promising potential in various computer vision tasks. The wide deployment of ViT in real-world tasks requires a thorough understanding of the societal impact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Bowei Tian , Ruijie Du , Yanning Shen

Recently computer vision has seen advancements mainly thanks to Transformer-based models. However many non-Transformer methods are still doing well being a direct competition of Transformer-based models. This review tries to present a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Nur Mohammad Kazi , Ibteshum Khaled , Md. Luthful Hasan Galib , Ali Faruk Shihab , Md. Rakibul Islam

The usage of transformers has grown from learning about language semantics to forming meaningful visiolinguistic representations. These architectures are often over-parametrized, requiring large amounts of computation. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Prajjwal Bhargava

Transformer design is the de facto standard for natural language processing tasks. The success of the transformer design in natural language processing has lately piqued the interest of researchers in the domain of computer vision. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Md Sohag Mia , Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Abdu Naim , Abdullah Al Bary Voban , Md Shariful Islam

Vision-language models (VLMs) integrate visual and textual information, enabling a wide range of applications such as image captioning and visual question answering, making them crucial for modern AI systems. However, their high…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Gaurav Shinde , Anuradha Ravi , Emon Dey , Shadman Sakib , Milind Rampure , Nirmalya Roy

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