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We apply pre-trained Vision Transformers (ViTs), originally developed for image recognition, to the analysis of astronomical spectral data. By converting traditional one-dimensional spectra into two-dimensional image representations, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Luis Felipe Strano Moraes , Ignacio Becker , Pavlos Protopapas , Guillermo Cabrera-Vives

Breakthroughs in transformer-based models have revolutionized not only the NLP field, but also vision and multimodal systems. However, although visualization and interpretability tools have become available for NLP models, internal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Estelle Aflalo , Meng Du , Shao-Yen Tseng , Yongfei Liu , Chenfei Wu , Nan Duan , Vasudev Lal

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are increasingly utilized in various computer vision tasks due to their powerful representation capabilities. However, it remains understudied how ViTs process information layer by layer. Numerous studies have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Teresa Dorszewski , Lenka Tětková , Robert Jenssen , Lars Kai Hansen , Kristoffer Knutsen Wickstrøm

Transformers have shown great potential in various computer vision tasks owing to their strong capability in modeling long-range dependency using the self-attention mechanism. Nevertheless, vision transformers treat an image as 1D sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-28 Yufei Xu , Qiming Zhang , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao

Although Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently demonstrated superior performance in medical imaging problems, they face explainability issues similar to previous architectures such as convolutional neural networks. Recent research…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-13 Minjae Chung , Jong Bum Won , Ganghyun Kim , Yujin Kim , Utku Ozbulak

Vision Transformer (ViT), as a powerful alternative to Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), has received much attention. Recent work showed that ViTs are also vulnerable to adversarial examples like CNNs. To build robust ViTs, an intuitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Boxi Wu , Jindong Gu , Zhifeng Li , Deng Cai , Xiaofei He , Wei Liu

Visual object tracking performance has been dramatically improved in recent years, but some severe challenges remain open, like distractors and occlusions. We suspect the reason is that the feature representations of the tracking targets…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Mengmeng Wang , Xiaoqian Yang , Yong Liu

We present an approach to efficiently and effectively adapt a masked image modeling (MIM) pre-trained vanilla Vision Transformer (ViT) for object detection, which is based on our two novel observations: (i) A MIM pre-trained vanilla ViT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-20 Yuxin Fang , Shusheng Yang , Shijie Wang , Yixiao Ge , Ying Shan , Xinggang Wang

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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have revolutionized computer vision by leveraging self-attention to model long-range dependencies. However, ViTs face challenges such as high computational costs due to the quadratic scaling of self-attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhoujie Qian

Intrigued by the inherent ability of the human visual system to identify salient regions in complex scenes, attention mechanisms have been seamlessly integrated into various Computer Vision (CV) tasks. Building upon this paradigm, Vision…

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

Vision language tasks, such as answering questions about or generating captions that describe an image, are difficult tasks for computers to perform. A relatively recent body of research has adapted the pretrained transformer architecture…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-10 Clayton Fields , Casey Kennington

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

The major part of the vanilla vision transformer (ViT) is the attention block that brings the power of mimicking the global context of the input image. For better performance, ViT needs large-scale training data. To overcome this data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Ahmed Aldahdooh , Wassim Hamidouche , Olivier Deforges

The large pre-trained vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on various visual tasks, but suffer from expensive computational and memory cost problems when deployed on resource-constrained devices. Among the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-14 Yanjing Li , Sheng Xu , Baochang Zhang , Xianbin Cao , Peng Gao , Guodong Guo

We study a crucial yet often overlooked issue inherent to Vision Transformers (ViTs): feature maps of these models exhibit grid-like artifacts, which hurt the performance of ViTs in downstream dense prediction tasks such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiawei Yang , Katie Z Luo , Jiefeng Li , Congyue Deng , Leonidas Guibas , Dilip Krishnan , Kilian Q Weinberger , Yonglong Tian , Yue Wang

This paper tackles a significant challenge faced by Vision Transformers (ViTs): their constrained scalability across different image resolutions. Typically, ViTs experience a performance decline when processing resolutions different from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Qihang Fan , Quanzeng You , Xiaotian Han , Yongfei Liu , Yunzhe Tao , Huaibo Huang , Ran He , Hongxia Yang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as popular models in computer vision, demonstrating state-of-the-art performance across various tasks. This success typically follows a two-stage strategy involving pre-training on large-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Zijun Long , Zaiqiao Meng , Gerardo Aragon Camarasa , Richard McCreadie

Vision Transformers have excelled in computer vision but their attention mechanisms operate independently across layers, limiting information flow and feature learning. We propose an effective cross-layer attention propagation method that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Swarnendu Banik , Manish Das , Shiv Ram Dubey , Satish Kumar Singh