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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

This paper studies the efficiency problem for visual transformers by excavating redundant calculation in given networks. The recent transformer architecture has demonstrated its effectiveness for achieving excellent performance on a series…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Yehui Tang , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu , Jianyuan Guo , Chao Xu , Dacheng Tao

Existing computer vision research in categorization struggles with fine-grained attributes recognition due to the inherently high intra-class variances and low inter-class variances. SOTA methods tackle this challenge by locating the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-01 Marcos V. Conde , Kerem Turgutlu

Following their success in natural language processing (NLP), there has been a shift towards transformer models in computer vision. While transformers perform well and offer promising multi-tasking performance, due to their high compute…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-10-02 Maximilian Augustin , Syed Shakib Sarwar , Mostafa Elhoushi , Sai Qian Zhang , Yuecheng Li , Barbara De Salvo

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

This work aims to improve the efficiency of vision transformers (ViT). While ViTs use computationally expensive self-attention operations in every layer, we identify that these operations are highly correlated across layers -- a key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-18 Shashanka Venkataramanan , Amir Ghodrati , Yuki M. Asano , Fatih Porikli , Amirhossein Habibian

Large transformer models are proving to be a powerful tool for 3D vision and novel view synthesis. However, the standard Transformer's well-known quadratic complexity makes it difficult to scale these methods to large scenes. To address…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Tooba Imtiaz , Lucy Chai , Kathryn Heal , Xuan Luo , Jungyeon Park , Jennifer Dy , John Flynn

Recent advances in vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved great performance in visual recognition tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) exploit spatial inductive bias to learn visual representations, but these networks are spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Youpeng Zhao , Huadong Tang , Yingying Jiang , Yong A , Qiang Wu

The Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture has emerged as the backbone of choice for state-of-the-art deep models for computer vision applications. However, ViTs are ill-suited for private inference using secure multi-party computation (MPC)…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Naren Dhyani , Jianqiao Mo , Minsu Cho , Ameya Joshi , Siddharth Garg , Brandon Reagen , Chinmay Hegde

Vision Transformer (ViT) has made significant advancements in computer vision, thanks to its token mixer's sophisticated ability to capture global dependencies between all tokens. However, the quadratic growth in computational demands as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Guoan Xu , Wenfeng Huang , Wenjing Jia , Jiamao Li , Guangwei Gao , Guo-Jun Qi

Vision Transformer (ViT), a radically different architecture than convolutional neural networks offers multiple advantages including design simplicity, robustness and state-of-the-art performance on many vision tasks. However, in contrast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Hanan Gani , Muzammal Naseer , Mohammad Yaqub

3D reconstruction from multi-view images is a core challenge in computer vision. Recently, feed-forward methods have emerged as efficient and robust alternatives to traditional per-scene optimization techniques. Among them, state-of-the-art…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Zipeng Wang , Dan Xu

Vision Transformer (ViT) has demonstrated significant potential in various vision tasks due to its strong ability in modelling long-range dependencies. However, such success is largely fueled by training on massive samples. In real…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Bowei Zhang , Yi Zhang

Transformers and vision-language models (VLMs) have emerged as dominant architectures in computer vision and multimodal AI, offering state-of-the-art performance in tasks such as image classification, object detection, visual question…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Safa Mohammed Sali , Mahmoud Meribout , Ashiyana Abdul Majeed

Transformers have demonstrated a competitive performance across a wide range of vision tasks, while it is very expensive to compute the global self-attention. Many methods limit the range of attention within a local window to reduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-01 Zhenzhe Hechen , Wei Huang , Yixin Zhao

Although vision Transformers have achieved excellent performance as backbone models in many vision tasks, most of them intend to capture global relations of all tokens in an image or a window, which disrupts the inherent spatial and local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Gang Li , Di Xu , Xing Cheng , Lingyu Si , Changwen Zheng

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance but still require a high computation cost as compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs), one reason is that ViTs' attention measures global similarities and thus has a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Haoran You , Yunyang Xiong , Xiaoliang Dai , Bichen Wu , Peizhao Zhang , Haoqi Fan , Peter Vajda , Yingyan Celine Lin

Vision transformers (ViTs) inherited the success of NLP but their structures have not been sufficiently investigated and optimized for visual tasks. One of the simplest solutions is to directly search the optimal one via the widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Xiu Su , Shan You , Jiyang Xie , Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu

Transformers with powerful global relation modeling abilities have been introduced to fundamental computer vision tasks recently. As a typical example, the Vision Transformer (ViT) directly applies a pure transformer architecture on image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-05 Xiaoyu Yue , Shuyang Sun , Zhanghui Kuang , Meng Wei , Philip Torr , Wayne Zhang , Dahua Lin

This work investigates a simple yet powerful dense prediction task adapter for Vision Transformer (ViT). Unlike recently advanced variants that incorporate vision-specific inductive biases into their architectures, the plain ViT suffers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-14 Zhe Chen , Yuchen Duan , Wenhai Wang , Junjun He , Tong Lu , Jifeng Dai , Yu Qiao