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The computational overhead of Vision Transformers in practice stems fundamentally from their deep architectures, yet existing acceleration strategies have primarily targeted algorithmic-level optimizations such as token pruning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Chengwei Zhou , Vipin Chaudhary , Gourav Datta

The Vision Transformer (ViT) has made significant strides in the field of computer vision. However, as the depth of the model and the resolution of the input images increase, the computational cost associated with training and running ViT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-18 Xinfeng Zhao , Yaoru Sun

\textit{Nature is infinitely resolution-free}. In the context of this reality, existing diffusion models, such as Diffusion Transformers, often face challenges when processing image resolutions outside of their trained domain. To address…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-21 ZiDong Wang , Zeyu Lu , Di Huang , Cai Zhou , Wanli Ouyang , and Lei Bai

Large-scale pre-trained models have been remarkably successful in resolving downstream tasks. Nonetheless, deploying these models on low-capability devices still requires an effective approach, such as model pruning. However, pruning the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-11 Haiyan Zhao , Guodong Long

Token compression techniques have recently emerged as powerful tools for accelerating Vision Transformer (ViT) inference in computer vision. Due to the quadratic computational complexity with respect to the token sequence length, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Phat Nguyen , Ngai-Man Cheung

Detecting plant diseases is a crucial aspect of modern agriculture, as it plays a key role in maintaining crop health and increasing overall yield. Traditional approaches, though still valuable, often rely on manual inspection or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-16 Saber Mehdipour , Seyed Abolghasem Mirroshandel , Seyed Amirhossein Tabatabaei

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently emerged as a powerful alternative to convolutional networks (CNNs). Although hybrid models attempt to bridge the gap between these two architectures, the self-attention layers they rely on induce a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-11 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Levent Sagun , Giulio Biroli , Ari Morcos

Incorporating symmetry priors as inductive biases to design equivariant Vision Transformers (ViTs) has emerged as a promising avenue for enhancing their performance. However, existing equivariant ViTs often struggle to balance performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Jiahong Fu , Qi Xie , Deyu Meng , Zongben Xu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) take all the image patches as tokens and construct multi-head self-attention (MHSA) among them. Complete leverage of these image tokens brings redundant computations since not all the tokens are attentive in MHSA.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Youwei Liang , Chongjian Ge , Zhan Tong , Yibing Song , Jue Wang , Pengtao Xie

Vision transformer has demonstrated promising performance on challenging computer vision tasks. However, directly training the vision transformers may yield unstable and sub-optimal results. Recent works propose to improve the performance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-14 Chengyue Gong , Dilin Wang , Meng Li , Vikas Chandra , Qiang Liu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are built by stacking independently parameterized blocks, but it remains unclear how much of this depth requires layer specific transformations and how much can be realized through recurrent computation. We study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Michal Byra , Pawel Olszowiec , Grzegorz Stefanski , Grzegorz Gruszczynski , Alberto Presta

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art architecture in representation learning, leveraging self-attention mechanisms to excel in various tasks. ViTs split images into fixed-size patches, constraining them to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Aswathi Varma , Suprosanna Shit , Chinmay Prabhakar , Daniel Scholz , Hongwei Bran Li , Bjoern Menze , Daniel Rueckert , Benedikt Wiestler

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision sometimes struggle with understanding images in a global context, as they mainly focus on local patterns. On the other hand, Vision Transformers (ViTs), inspired by models originally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dimitrios N. Vlachogiannis , Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently received explosive popularity, but the huge computational cost is still a severe issue. Since the computation complexity of ViT is quadratic with respect to the input sequence length, a mainstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Yifan Xu , Zhijie Zhang , Mengdan Zhang , Kekai Sheng , Ke Li , Weiming Dong , Liqing Zhang , Changsheng Xu , Xing Sun

Transformers, composed of multiple self-attention layers, hold strong promises toward a generic learning primitive applicable to different data modalities, including the recent breakthroughs in computer vision achieving state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Sayak Paul , Pin-Yu Chen

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

In this paper, we ask whether Vision Transformers (ViTs) can serve as an underlying architecture for improving the adversarial robustness of machine learning models against evasion attacks. While earlier works have focused on improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Edoardo Debenedetti , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Spiking neural networks (SNNs) promise low-power event-driven computation for temporally rich tasks, but commonly used neuron models often trade off gradient-based trainability, dynamical richness, and high activity sparsity. These…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Alex Fulleda-Garcia , Saray Soldado-Magraner , Josep Maria Margarit-Taulé

We apply pre-trained architectures, originally developed for the ImageNet Large Scale Visual Recognition Challenge, for periocular recognition. These architectures have demonstrated significant success in various computer vision tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Fernando Alonso-Fernandez , Kevin Hernandez-Diaz , Prayag Tiwari , Josef Bigun

Vision Transformers (ViTs) dominate self-supervised learning (SSL). While they have proven highly effective for large-scale pretraining, they are computationally inefficient and scale poorly with image size. Consequently, foundational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Nedyalko Prisadnikov , Danda Pani Paudel , Yuqian Fu , Luc Van Gool