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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

Vision Transformer (ViT) self-attention mechanism is characterized by feature collapse in deeper layers, resulting in the vanishing of low-level visual features. However, such features can be helpful to accurately represent and identify…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-06 Anxhelo Diko , Danilo Avola , Marco Cascio , Luigi Cinque

Vision-language models (VLMs) face significant computational inefficiencies caused by excessive generation of visual tokens. While prior work shows that a large fraction of visual tokens are redundant, existing compression methods struggle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Zhengyao Fang , Pengyuan Lyu , Chengquan Zhang , Guangming Lu , Jun Yu , Wenjie Pei

Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable multimodal understanding capabilities, yet the redundant visual tokens incur prohibitive computational overhead and degrade inference efficiency. Prior studies typically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Qiankun Ma , Ziyao Zhang , Haofei Wang , Jie Chen , Zhen Song , Hairong Zheng

Due to its deficiency in prior knowledge (inductive bias), Vision Transformer (ViT) requires pre-training on large-scale datasets to perform well. Moreover, the growing layers and parameters in ViT models impede their applicability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chenhao Xu , Chang-Tsun Li , Chee Peng Lim , Douglas Creighton

Recently vision transformer has achieved tremendous success on image-level visual recognition tasks. To effectively and efficiently model the crucial temporal information within a video clip, we propose a Temporally Efficient Vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Shusheng Yang , Xinggang Wang , Yu Li , Yuxin Fang , Jiemin Fang , Wenyu Liu , Xun Zhao , Ying Shan

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) generally contain significantly more visual tokens than their textual counterparts, resulting in a considerable computational burden. Recent efforts have been made to tackle this issue by pruning visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Qizhe Zhang , Aosong Cheng , Ming Lu , Renrui Zhang , Zhiyong Zhuo , Jiajun Cao , Shaobo Guo , Qi She , Shanghang Zhang

Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have expanded reasoning capabilities into 3D domains, enabling fine-grained spatial understanding. However, the substantial size of 3D MLLMs and the high dimensionality of input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yuhui Lin , Siyue Yu , Yuxing Yang , Guangliang Cheng , Jimin Xiao

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as powerful backbones in computer vision, outperforming many traditional CNNs. However, their computational overhead, largely attributed to the self-attention mechanism, makes deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-05 Minchul Kim , Shangqian Gao , Yen-Chang Hsu , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

Transformers, a groundbreaking architecture proposed for Natural Language Processing (NLP), have also achieved remarkable success in Computer Vision. A cornerstone of their success lies in the attention mechanism, which models relationships…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Jaihyun Lew , Soohyuk Jang , Jaehoon Lee , Seungryong Yoo , Eunji Kim , Saehyung Lee , Jisoo Mok , Siwon Kim , Sungroh Yoon

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as a promising paradigm in autonomous driving (AD), providing a unified framework for perception and decision-making. However, their real-world deployment is hindered by significant computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Minhao Xiong , Zichen Wen , Zhuangcheng Gu , Xuyang Liu , Rui Zhang , Hengrui Kang , Jiabing Yang , Junyuan Zhang , Weijia Li , Conghui He , Yafei Wang , Linfeng Zhang

Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) enable large language models (LLMs) to process high-resolution images, significantly improving real-world multimodal understanding. However, this capability introduces a large number of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yuna Lee , Kyoungho Min , Yulhwa Kim

Vision Transformer (ViT)-based models have shown state-of-the-art performance (e.g., accuracy) in vision-based AI tasks. However, realizing their capability in resource-constrained embedded AI systems is challenging due to their inherent…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2026-01-06 Rachmad Vidya Wicaksana Putra , Saad Iftikhar , Muhammad Shafique

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 Transformer (ViT) models have made breakthroughs in image embedding extraction, which provide state-of-the-art performance in tasks such as zero-shot image classification. However, the models suffer from a high computational burden.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Takahiro Naruko , Hiroaki Akutsu

Learning efficient and expressive visual representation has long been the pursuit of computer vision research. While Vision Transformers (ViTs) gradually replace traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) as more scalable vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Quan Kong , Yanru Xiao , Yuhao Shen , Cong Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown promising performance compared with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), but the training of ViTs is much harder than CNNs. In this paper, we define several metrics, including Dynamic Data Proportion…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-30 Benjia Zhou , Pichao Wang , Jun Wan , Yanyan Liang , Fan Wang

We design a family of image classification architectures that optimize the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency in a high-speed regime. Our work exploits recent findings in attention-based architectures, which are competitive on highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ben Graham , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Hugo Touvron , Pierre Stock , Armand Joulin , Hervé Jégou , Matthijs Douze

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance and have become a unified backbone for multiple vision tasks. However, both the attention mechanism and multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs) in ViTs are not sufficiently efficient due…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Haoran You , Huihong Shi , Yipin Guo , Yingyan Celine Lin

Change detection in remote sensing images is essential for tracking environmental changes on the Earth's surface. Despite the success of vision transformers (ViTs) as backbones in numerous computer vision applications, they remain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-19 Duowang Zhu , Xiaohu Huang , Haiyan Huang , Zhenfeng Shao , Qimin Cheng