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Vision Transformers (ViT) have marked a paradigm shift in computer vision, outperforming state-of-the-art models across diverse tasks. However, their practical deployment is hampered by high computational and memory demands. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Feiyang Chen , Ziqian Luo , Lisang Zhou , Xueting Pan , Ying Jiang

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in a variety of vision tasks. Despite their promising capabilities, training a ViT requires a large amount of diverse data. Several studies empirically found that using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Bum Jun Kim , Sang Woo Kim

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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in image processing tasks by utilizing self-attention mechanisms to capture global relationships within data. However, their scalability is hindered by significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Huy Trinh , Rebecca Ma , Zeqi Yu , Tahsin Reza

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently obtained success in many applications, but their intensive computation and heavy memory usage at both training and inference time limit their generalization. Previous compression algorithms usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Zhenglun Kong , Haoyu Ma , Geng Yuan , Mengshu Sun , Yanyue Xie , Peiyan Dong , Xin Meng , Xuan Shen , Hao Tang , Minghai Qin , Tianlong Chen , Xiaolong Ma , Xiaohui Xie , Zhangyang Wang , Yanzhi 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

This paper investigates two techniques for developing efficient self-supervised vision transformers (EsViT) for visual representation learning. First, we show through a comprehensive empirical study that multi-stage architectures with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-08 Chunyuan Li , Jianwei Yang , Pengchuan Zhang , Mei Gao , Bin Xiao , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Jianfeng Gao

Recent Self-Supervised Learning (SSL) methods are able to learn feature representations that are invariant to different data augmentations, which can then be transferred to downstream tasks of interest. However, different downstream tasks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-08 Chen Huang , Hanlin Goh , Jiatao Gu , Josh Susskind

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently received explosive popularity, but their enormous model sizes and training costs remain daunting. Conventional post-training pruning often incurs higher training budgets. In contrast, this paper aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Tianlong Chen , Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang , Zhangyang Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are widely adopted in medical imaging tasks, and some existing efforts have been directed towards vision-language training for Chest X-rays (CXRs). However, we envision that there still exists a potential for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Umar Marikkar , Sara Atito , Muhammad Awais , Adam Mahdi

Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Automatic Target Recognition (ATR) is a key technique used in military applications like remote-sensing image recognition. Vision Transformers (ViTs) are the current state-of-the-art in various computer vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-09 Sachini Wickramasinghe , Dhruv Parikh , Bingyi Zhang , Rajgopal Kannan , Viktor Prasanna , Carl Busart

Federated learning research has recently shifted from Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to Vision Transformers (ViTs) due to their superior capacity. ViTs training demands higher computational resources due to the lack of 2D inductive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Meihan Wu , Tao Chang , Cui Miao , Jie Zhou , Chun Li , Xiangyu Xu , Ming Li , Xiaodong Wang

Vision transformers have become one of the most important models for computer vision tasks. Although they outperform prior works, they require heavy computational resources on a scale that is quadratic to the number of tokens, $N$. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Jeonggeun Song , Heung-Chang Lee

Vision transformer (ViT) and its variants have swept through visual learning leaderboards and offer state-of-the-art accuracy in tasks such as image classification, object detection, and semantic segmentation by attending to different parts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-07 Eric Youn , Sai Mitheran J , Sanjana Prabhu , Siyuan Chen

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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable success on large-scale datasets, but their performance on smaller datasets often falls short of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This paper explores the design and optimization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Gent Wu

Transformers have demonstrated great power in the recent development of large foundational models. In particular, the Vision Transformer (ViT) has brought revolutionary changes to the field of vision, achieving significant accomplishments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-25 Jiarui Jiang , Wei Huang , Miao Zhang , Taiji Suzuki , Liqiang Nie

Can a lightweight Vision Transformer (ViT) match or exceed the performance of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) like ResNet on small datasets with small image resolutions? This report demonstrates that a pure ViT can indeed achieve…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Jen Hong Tan

In recent years, deep neural networks (DNNs) trained with transformed data have been applied to various applications such as privacy-preserving learning, access control, and adversarial defenses. However, the use of transformed data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Teru Nagamori , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya

The integration of Large Language Model (LLMs) blocks with Vision Transformers (ViTs) holds immense promise for vision-only tasks by leveraging the rich semantic knowledge and reasoning capabilities of LLMs. However, a fundamental challenge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Selim Kuzucu , Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Anna Kukleva , Federico Tombari , Bernt Schiele