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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as the fundamental architecture for most computer vision fields, but the considerable memory and computation costs hinders their application on resource-limited devices. As one of the most powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Junrui Xiao , Zhikai Li , Lianwei Yang , Qingyi Gu

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

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

Transfer learning has become the dominant paradigm for many natural language processing tasks. In addition to models being pretrained on large datasets, they can be further trained on intermediate (supervised) tasks that are similar to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Benjamin Minixhofer , Milan Gritta , Ignacio Iacobacci

How can we accurately quantize a pre-trained Vision Transformer model? Quantization algorithms compress Vision Transformers (ViTs) into low-bit formats, reducing memory and computation demands with minimal accuracy degradation. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Minjun Kim , Jaeri Lee , Jongjin Kim , Jeongin Yun , Yongmo Kwon , U Kang

Fine-tuning large pre-trained models on downstream tasks has been adopted in a variety of domains recently. However, it is costly to update the entire parameter set of large pre-trained models. Although recently proposed parameter-efficient…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Yi-Lin Sung , Jaemin Cho , Mohit Bansal

The success of large-scale pre-trained models has established fine-tuning as a standard method for achieving significant improvements in downstream tasks. However, fine-tuning the entire parameter set of a pre-trained model is costly.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Yijin Huang , Pujin Cheng , Roger Tam , Xiaoying Tang

Can a lightweight Vision Transformer (ViT) match or exceed the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) like ResNet on small datasets with small image resolutions? This report demonstrates that a pure ViT can indeed achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jen Hong Tan

Pruning is an effective way to reduce the huge inference cost of Transformer models. However, prior work on pruning Transformers requires retraining the models. This can add high training cost and high complexity to model deployment, making…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Woosuk Kwon , Sehoon Kim , Michael W. Mahoney , Joseph Hassoun , Kurt Keutzer , Amir Gholami

This paper presents a performance study of transformer language models under different hardware configurations and accuracy requirements and derives empirical observations about these resource/accuracy trade-offs. In particular, we study…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-08 Souvika Sarkar , Mohammad Fakhruddin Babar , Md Mahadi Hassan , Monowar Hasan , Shubhra Kanti Karmaker Santu

Vision transformer (ViT) models exhibit substandard optimizability. In particular, they are sensitive to the choice of optimizer (AdamW vs. SGD), optimizer hyperparameters, and training schedule length. In comparison, modern convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Tete Xiao , Mannat Singh , Eric Mintun , Trevor Darrell , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

Prompt tuning (PT) has long been recognized as an effective and efficient paradigm for transferring large pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) to downstream tasks by learning a tiny set of context vectors. Nevertheless, in this work,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-17 Shihan Wu , Ji Zhang , Pengpeng Zeng , Lianli Gao , Jingkuan Song , Heng Tao Shen

After their initial success in natural language processing, transformer architectures have rapidly gained traction in computer vision, providing state-of-the-art results for tasks such as image classification, detection, segmentation, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-21 Hugo Touvron , Matthieu Cord , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Jakob Verbeek , Hervé Jégou

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated outstanding performance in computer vision tasks, yet their high computational complexity prevents their deployment in computing resource-constrained environments. Various token pruning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-07 Xuwei Xu , Changlin Li , Yudong Chen , Xiaojun Chang , Jiajun Liu , Sen Wang

With the success of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in computer vision tasks, recent arts try to optimize the performance and complexity of ViTs to enable efficient deployment on mobile devices. Multiple approaches are proposed to accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yanyu Li , Ju Hu , Yang Wen , Georgios Evangelidis , Kamyar Salahi , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

Parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) is proposed as a cost-effective way to transfer pre-trained models to downstream tasks, avoiding the high cost of updating entire large-scale pre-trained models (LPMs). In this work, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Yijin Huang , Pujin Cheng , Roger Tam , Xiaoying Tang

Continual learning is a longstanding research topic due to its crucial role in tackling continually arriving tasks. Up to now, the study of continual learning in computer vision is mainly restricted to convolutional neural networks (CNNs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Mengqi Xue , Haofei Zhang , Jie Song , Mingli Song

The transformer model has gained widespread adoption in computer vision tasks in recent times. However, due to the quadratic time and memory complexity of self-attention, which is proportional to the number of input tokens, most existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Wei Tan , Yifeng Geng , Xuansong Xie

Recently, efficient Vision Transformers have shown great performance with low latency on resource-constrained devices. Conventionally, they use 4x4 patch embeddings and a 4-stage structure at the macro level, while utilizing sophisticated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Seokju Yun , Youngmin Ro

Parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL), i.e., fine-tuning a small portion of parameters, is an effective strategy for adapting pre-trained models to downstream domains. To further reduce the memory demand, recent PETL works focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-12 Haiwen Diao , Bo Wan , Ying Zhang , Xu Jia , Huchuan Lu , Long Chen