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Biomedical image classification requires capturing of bio-informatics based on specific feature distribution. In most of such applications, there are mainly challenges due to limited availability of samples for diseased cases and imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Arun K. Sharma , Nishchal K. Verma

Conventional wisdom suggests that pre-training Vision Transformers (ViT) improves downstream performance by learning useful representations. Is this actually true? We investigate this question and find that the features and representations…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-15 Alexander C. Li , Yuandong Tian , Beidi Chen , Deepak Pathak , Xinlei Chen

This work presents a systematic investigation into modernizing Vision Transformer backbones by leveraging architectural advancements from the past five years. While preserving the canonical Attention-FFN structure, we conduct a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Feng Wang , Sucheng Ren , Tiezheng Zhang , Predrag Neskovic , Anand Bhattad , Cihang Xie , Alan Yuille

Multi-scale Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a powerful backbone for computer vision tasks, while the self-attention computation in Transformer scales quadratically w.r.t. the input patch number. Thus, existing solutions commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Ting Yao , Yingwei Pan , Yehao Li , Chong-Wah Ngo , Tao Mei

Built on top of self-attention mechanisms, vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance on a variety of vision tasks recently. While achieving excellent performance, they still require relatively intensive computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Lingchen Meng , Hengduo Li , Bor-Chun Chen , Shiyi Lan , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Ser-Nam Lim

Self-attention-based vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a highly competitive architecture in computer vision. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), ViTs are capable of global information sharing. With the development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhenzhen Chu , Jiayu Chen , Cen Chen , Chengyu Wang , Ziheng Wu , Jun Huang , Weining Qian

Fine-grained classification is a challenging task that involves identifying subtle differences between objects within the same category. This task is particularly challenging in scenarios where data is scarce. Visual transformers (ViT) have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Manuel Lagunas , Brayan Impata , Victor Martinez , Virginia Fernandez , Christos Georgakis , Sofia Braun , Felipe Bertrand

Although transformers have become the neural architectures of choice for natural language processing, they require orders of magnitude more training data, GPU memory, and computations in order to compete with convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a foundational model in computer vision, excelling in generalization and adaptation to downstream tasks. However, deploying ViTs to support diverse resource constraints typically requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Chen Zhu , Wangbo Zhao , Huiwen Zhang , Samir Khaki , Yuhao Zhou , Weidong Tang , Shuo Wang , Zhihang Yuan , Yuzhang Shang , Xiaojiang Peng , Kai Wang , Dawei Yang

Recently, Transformers have emerged as the go-to architecture for both vision and language modeling tasks, but their computational efficiency is limited by the length of the input sequence. To address this, several efficient variants of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-18 Hao Zheng , Jinbao Wang , Xiantong Zhen , Hong Chen , Jingkuan Song , Feng Zheng

Transformers have recently gained significant attention in the computer vision community. However, the lack of scalability of self-attention mechanisms with respect to image size has limited their wide adoption in state-of-the-art vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-12 Zhengzhong Tu , Hossein Talebi , Han Zhang , Feng Yang , Peyman Milanfar , Alan Bovik , Yinxiao Li

The remarkable representational power of Vision Transformers (ViTs) remains underutilized in few-shot image classification. In this work, we introduce ViT-ProtoNet, which integrates a ViT-Small backbone into the Prototypical Network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Abdulvahap Mutlu , Şengül Doğan , Türker Tuncer

We attempt to reduce the computational costs in vision transformers (ViTs), which increase quadratically in the token number. We present a novel training paradigm that trains only one ViT model at a time, but is capable of providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Mingbao Lin , Mengzhao Chen , Yuxin Zhang , Chunhua Shen , Rongrong Ji , Liujuan Cao

Vision Transformer (ViT) demonstrates that Transformer for natural language processing can be applied to computer vision tasks and result in comparable performance to convolutional neural networks (CNN), which have been studied and adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yi-Lun Liao , Sertac Karaman , Vivienne Sze

Since being introduced in 2020, Vision Transformers (ViT) has been steadily breaking the record for many vision tasks and are often described as ``all-you-need" to replace ConvNet. Despite that, ViTs are generally computational,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Chuong H. Nguyen , Su Huynh , Vinh Nguyen , Ngoc Nguyen

Vision Transformers have been tremendously successful in computer vision tasks. However, their large computational, memory, and energy demands are a challenge for edge inference on FPGAs -- a field that has seen a recent surge in demand. We…

Vision Transformer (ViT) models have recently drawn much attention in computer vision due to their high model capability. However, ViT models suffer from huge number of parameters, restricting their applicability on devices with limited…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Jinnian Zhang , Houwen Peng , Kan Wu , Mengchen Liu , Bin Xiao , Jianlong Fu , Lu Yuan

Vision Transformer (ViT) has gained increasing attention in the computer vision community in recent years. However, the core component of ViT, Self-Attention, lacks explicit spatial priors and bears a quadratic computational complexity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Qihang Fan , Huaibo Huang , Mingrui Chen , Hongmin Liu , Ran He

Mobile vision transformers (MobileViT) can achieve state-of-the-art performance across several mobile vision tasks, including classification and detection. Though these models have fewer parameters, they have high latency as compared to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Sachin Mehta , Mohammad Rastegari

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