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We present a simple approach which can turn a ViT encoder into an efficient video model, which can seamlessly work with both image and video inputs. By sparsely sampling the inputs, the model is able to do training and inference from both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 AJ Piergiovanni , Weicheng Kuo , Anelia Angelova

Video understanding has made huge strides in recent years, relying largely on the power of transformers. As this architecture is notoriously expensive and video data is highly redundant, research into improving efficiency has become…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Xinyue Hao , Gen Li , Shreyank N Gowda , Robert B Fisher , Jonathan Huang , Anurag Arnab , Laura Sevilla-Lara

In this study, we identify the inefficient attention phenomena in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), notably within prominent models like LLaVA-1.5, QwenVL-Chat and Video-LLaVA. We find out that the attention computation over visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Liang Chen , Haozhe Zhao , Tianyu Liu , Shuai Bai , Junyang Lin , Chang Zhou , Baobao Chang

Our work tackles the computational challenges of contrastive learning methods, particularly for the pretraining of Vision Transformers (ViTs). Despite the effectiveness of contrastive learning, the substantial computational resources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jinhong Lin , Cheng-En Wu , Yibing Wei , Pedro Morgado

Transformers have revolutionized computer vision and natural language processing, but their high computational complexity limits their application in high-resolution image processing and long-context analysis. This paper introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Yuchen Duan , Weiyun Wang , Zhe Chen , Xizhou Zhu , Lewei Lu , Tong Lu , Yu Qiao , Hongsheng Li , Jifeng Dai , Wenhai Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on various computer vision tasks. However, their high computational complexity prevents them from being applied to many real-world applications. Weight and token pruning are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Dhruv Parikh , Shouyi Li , Bingyi Zhang , Rajgopal Kannan , Carl Busart , Viktor Prasanna

Recently, the tokens of images share the same static data flow in many dense networks. However, challenges arise from the variance among the objects in images, such as large variations in the spatial scale and difficulties of recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Yuchen Ma , Zhengcong Fei , Junshi Huang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated substantial value in unified text-image understanding and reasoning, primarily by converting images into sequences of patch-level tokens that align with their architectural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Xinliang Zhang , Lei Zhu , Hangzhou He , Shuang Zeng , Ourui Fu , Jiakui Hu , Zhengjian Yao , Yanye Lu

Vision transformers are known to be more computationally and data-intensive than CNN models. These transformer models such as ViT, require all the input image tokens to learn the relationship among them. However, many of these tokens are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-30 Foozhan Ataiefard , Walid Ahmed , Habib Hajimolahoseini , Saina Asani , Farnoosh Javadi , Mohammad Hassanpour , Omar Mohamed Awad , Austin Wen , Kangling Liu , Yang Liu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have been widely used in large-scale Vision and Language Pre-training (VLP) models. Though previous VLP works have proved the effectiveness of ViTs, they still suffer from computational efficiency brought by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Chaoya Jiang , Haiyang Xu , Chenliang Li , Miang Yan , Wei Ye , Shikun Zhang , Bin Bi , Songfang Huang

The advent of Vision Transformers (ViTs) marks a substantial paradigm shift in the realm of computer vision. ViTs capture the global information of images through self-attention modules, which perform dot product computations among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shuoxi Zhang , Hanpeng Liu , Stephen Lin , Kun He

The groundbreaking performance of transformers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks has led to their replacement of traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), owing to the efficiency and accuracy achieved through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Gousia Habib , Damandeep Singh , Ishfaq Ahmad Malik , Brejesh Lall

Fully test-time adaptation aims to adapt the network model based on sequential analysis of input samples during the inference stage to address the cross-domain performance degradation problem of deep neural networks. This work is based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Yushun Tang , Shuoshuo Chen , Zhehan Kan , Yi Zhang , Qinghai Guo , Zhihai He

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable potential for enhancing scene understanding in autonomous driving systems through powerful logical reasoning capabilities. However, the deployment of these models faces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Yunsheng Ma , Amr Abdelraouf , Rohit Gupta , Ziran Wang , Kyungtae Han

Recent vision-language (VL) studies have shown remarkable progress by learning generic representations from massive image-text pairs with transformer models and then fine-tuning on downstream VL tasks. While existing research has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-11 Jianfeng Wang , Xiaowei Hu , Pengchuan Zhang , Xiujun Li , Lijuan Wang , Lei Zhang , Jianfeng Gao , Zicheng Liu

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

Autoregressive (AR) video generative models rely on video tokenizers that compress pixels into discrete token sequences. The length of these token sequences is crucial for balancing reconstruction quality against downstream generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Tianwei Xiong , Jun Hao Liew , Zilong Huang , Zhijie Lin , Jiashi Feng , Xihui Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have enabled the creation of multi-modal LLMs that exhibit strong comprehension of visual data such as images and videos. However, these models usually rely on extensive visual tokens from visual encoders,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-30 Yiwu Zhong , Zhuoming Liu , Yin Li , Liwei Wang

Vision transformers have recently made a breakthrough in computer vision showing excellent performance in terms of precision for numerous applications. However, their computational cost is very high compared to alternative approaches such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Martial Guidez , Stefan Duffner , Christophe Garcia

The remarkable performance of Vision Transformers (ViTs) typically requires an extremely large training cost. Existing methods have attempted to accelerate the training of ViTs, yet typically disregard method universality with accuracy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Wenxuan Huang , Yunhang Shen , Jiao Xie , Baochang Zhang , Gaoqi He , Ke Li , Xing Sun , Shaohui Lin