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Object Detection with Transformers (DETR) and related works reach or even surpass the highly-optimized Faster-RCNN baseline with self-attention network architectures. Inspired by the evidence that pure self-attention possesses a strong…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Wenchi Ma , Tianxiao Zhang , Guanghui Wang

Detection Transformer (DETR) has redefined object detection by casting it as a set prediction task within an end-to-end framework. Despite its elegance, DETR and its variants still rely on fixed learnable queries and suffer from severe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Zhengjian Kang , Jun Zhuang , Kangtong Mo , Qi Chen , Rui Liu , Ye Zhang

Object detection has advanced significantly with Detection Transformers (DETRs). However, these models are computationally demanding, posing challenges for deployment in resource-constrained environments (e.g., self-driving cars). Knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Qizhen Lan , Qing Tian

We consider the problem of predicting edges in a graph from node attributes in an e-commerce setting. Specifically, given nodes labelled with search query text, we want to predict links to related queries that share products. Experiments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-15 Matthew Dippel , Adam Kiezun , Tanay Mehta , Ravi Sundaram , Srikanth Thirumalai , Akshar Varma

Transformer-based encoder-decoder models have achieved remarkable success in image-to-image transfer tasks, particularly in image restoration. However, their high computational complexity-manifested in elevated FLOPs and parameter…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Yongheng Zhang , Danfeng Yan

The Transformer model architecture has become one of the most widely used in deep learning and the attention mechanism is at its core. The standard attention formulation uses a softmax operation applied to a scaled dot product between query…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Hariprasath Govindarajan , Per Sidén , Jacob Roll , Fredrik Lindsten

Dot-product attention has wide applications in computer vision and natural language processing. However, its memory and computational costs grow quadratically with the input size. Such growth prohibits its application on high-resolution…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-22 Zhuoran Shen , Mingyuan Zhang , Haiyu Zhao , Shuai Yi , Hongsheng Li

Transformers have become prevalent in computer vision due to their performance and flexibility in modelling complex operations. Of particular significance is the 'cross-attention' operation, which allows a vector representation (e.g. of an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Ali Athar , Jonathon Luiten , Alexander Hermans , Deva Ramanan , Bastian Leibe

The recently proposed Detection Transformer (DETR) model successfully applies Transformer to objects detection and achieves comparable performance with two-stage object detection frameworks, such as Faster-RCNN. However, DETR suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-21 Peng Gao , Minghang Zheng , Xiaogang Wang , Jifeng Dai , Hongsheng Li

The attention mechanism within the transformer architecture enables the model to weigh and combine tokens based on their relevance to the query. While self-attention has enjoyed major success, it notably treats all queries $q$ in the same…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-21 Xuechen Zhang , Xiangyu Chang , Mingchen Li , Amit Roy-Chowdhury , Jiasi Chen , Samet Oymak

Object detection has recently seen an interesting trend in terms of the most innovative research work, this task being of particular importance in the field of remote sensing, given the consistency of these images in terms of geographical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Anasse Boutayeb , Iyad Lahsen-cherif , Ahmed El Khadimi

Handwritten mathematical expression recognition (HMER) is an important research direction in handwriting recognition. The performance of HMER suffers from the two-dimensional structure of mathematical expressions (MEs). To address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-21 Zhe Li , Lianwen Jin , Songxuan Lai , Yecheng Zhu

Transformers are built upon multi-head scaled dot-product attention and positional encoding, which aim to learn the feature representations and token dependencies. In this work, we focus on enhancing the distinctive representation by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Litao Yu , Jian Zhang

In recent years, deep learning has spread rapidly, and deeper, larger models have been proposed. However, the calculation cost becomes enormous as the size of the models becomes larger. Various techniques for compressing the size of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Hideki Oki , Motoshi Abe , Junichi Miyao , Takio Kurita

The recent detection transformer (DETR) has advanced object detection, but its application on resource-constrained devices requires massive computation and memory resources. Quantization stands out as a solution by representing the network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Sheng Xu , Yanjing Li , Mingbao Lin , Peng Gao , Guodong Guo , Jinhu Lu , Baochang Zhang

Knowledge Distillation (KD) aims at improving the performance of a low-capacity student model by inheriting knowledge from a high-capacity teacher model. Previous KD methods typically train a student by minimizing a task-related loss and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-10 Mengya Gao , Yujun Shen , Quanquan Li , Junjie Yan , Liang Wan , Dahua Lin , Chen Change Loy , Xiaoou Tang

Transformer-based detectors (DETRs) are becoming popular for their simple framework, but the large model size and heavy time consumption hinder their deployment in the real world. While knowledge distillation (KD) can be an appealing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Jiahao Chang , Shuo Wang , Haiming Xu , Zehui Chen , Chenhongyi Yang , Feng Zhao

End-to-end Object Detection with Transformer (DETR)proposes to perform object detection with Transformer and achieve comparable performance with two-stage object detection like Faster-RCNN. However, DETR needs huge computational resources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Minghang Zheng , Peng Gao , Renrui Zhang , Kunchang Li , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li , Hao Dong

The quadratic complexity of self-attention in Transformer models remains a significant bottleneck for processing long sequences and deploying large language models efficiently. For this approach, there has been significant research into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Spandan Pratyush

This paper investigates a phenomenon where query-based object detectors mispredict at the last decoding stage while predicting correctly at an intermediate stage. We review the training process and attribute the overlooked phenomenon to two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Fangyi Chen , Han Zhang , Kai Hu , Yu-kai Huang , Chenchen Zhu , Marios Savvides