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Despite the remarkable success of Vision Transformers (ViTs) across a wide range of vision tasks, recent studies have revealed that they remain vulnerable to adversarial examples, much like Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). A common…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jiaming Zhang , Meng Ding , Shaopeng Fu , Jingfeng Zhang , Di Wang

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

Token compression techniques have recently emerged as powerful tools for accelerating Vision Transformer (ViT) inference in computer vision. Due to the quadratic computational complexity with respect to the token sequence length, these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Phat Nguyen , Ngai-Man Cheung

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are becoming more popular and dominating technique for various vision tasks, compare to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). As a demanding technique in computer vision, ViTs have been successfully solved various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Khawar Islam

Continuous prompt search offers a computationally efficient alternative to conventional parameter tuning in natural language processing tasks. Nevertheless, its practical effectiveness can be significantly hindered by the black-box nature…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yu Cai , Canxi Huang , Xiaoyu He

Vision transformers (ViTs) have found only limited practical use in processing images, in spite of their state-of-the-art accuracy on certain benchmarks. The reason for their limited use include their need for larger training datasets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Pranav Jeevan , Amit sethi

Inspired by text prompts in large language models, visual prompts have been explored to enhance the perceptual capabilities of large vision-language models (LVLMs). However, performance tends to saturate under single visual prompt designs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Yuan Zhang , Chun-Kai Fan , Sicheng Yu , Junwen Pan , Tao Huang , Ming Lu , Kuan Cheng , Qi She , Shanghang Zhang

Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures traditionally employ a grid-based approach to tokenization independent of the semantic content of an image. We propose a modular superpixel tokenization strategy which decouples tokenization and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Marius Aasan , Odd Kolbjørnsen , Anne Schistad Solberg , Adín Ramirez Rivera

In this paper, we present an innovative approach to self-supervised learning for Vision Transformers (ViTs), integrating local masked image modeling with progressive layer freezing. This method focuses on enhancing the efficiency and speed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Utku Mert Topcuoglu , Erdem Akagündüz

Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) has continuously established new milestones in the computer vision field, while the high computation and memory cost makes its propagation in industrial production difficult. Pruning, a traditional model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Zhenglun Kong , Peiyan Dong , Xiaolong Ma , Xin Meng , Mengshu Sun , Wei Niu , Xuan Shen , Geng Yuan , Bin Ren , Minghai Qin , Hao Tang , Yanzhi Wang

Recent methods for ego-centric Traffic Anomaly Detection (TAD) often rely on complex multi-stage or multi-representation fusion architectures, yet it remains unclear whether such complexity is necessary. Recent findings in visual perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Svetlana Orlova , Tommie Kerssies , Brunó B. Englert , Gijs Dubbelman

Recently, vision transformer (ViT) and its variants have achieved promising performances in various computer vision tasks. Yet the high computational costs and training data requirements of ViTs limit their application in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Hao Yu , Jianxin Wu

Neural Architecture Search (NAS) is a powerful approach of automating the design of efficient neural architectures. In contrast to traditional NAS methods, recently proposed one-shot NAS methods prove to be more efficient in performing NAS.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-16 Waqwoya Abebe , Sadegh Jafari , Sixing Yu , Akash Dutta , Jan Strube , Nathan R. Tallent , Luanzheng Guo , Pablo Munoz , Ali Jannesari

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are built by stacking independently parameterized blocks, but it remains unclear how much of this depth requires layer specific transformations and how much can be realized through recurrent computation. We study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Michal Byra , Pawel Olszowiec , Grzegorz Stefanski , Grzegorz Gruszczynski , Alberto Presta

In this paper, we study the challenging instance-wise vision-language tasks, where the free-form language is required to align with the objects instead of the whole image. To address these tasks, we propose X-DETR, whose architecture has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Zhaowei Cai , Gukyeong Kwon , Avinash Ravichandran , Erhan Bas , Zhuowen Tu , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

Self-supervised learning on large-scale Vision Transformers (ViTs) as pre-training methods has achieved promising downstream performance. Yet, how much these pre-training paradigms promote lightweight ViTs' performance is considerably less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Shaoru Wang , Jin Gao , Zeming Li , Xiaoqin Zhang , Weiming Hu

Transformers have emerged as a competitive alternative to convnets in vision tasks, yet they lack the architectural inductive bias of convnets, which may hinder their potential performance. Specifically, Vision Transformers (ViTs) are not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hagay Michaeli , Daniel Soudry

Predictor-based algorithms have achieved remarkable performance in the Neural Architecture Search (NAS) tasks. However, these methods suffer from high computation costs, as training the performance predictor usually requires training and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Ruochen Wang , Xiangning Chen , Minhao Cheng , Xiaocheng Tang , Cho-Jui Hsieh

Vision foundation models achieve remarkable performance but are only available in a limited set of pre-determined sizes, forcing sub-optimal deployment choices under real-world constraints. We introduce SnapViT: Single-shot network…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Walter Simoncini , Michael Dorkenwald , Tijmen Blankevoort , Cees G. M. Snoek , Yuki M. Asano

We introduce HypoExplore, an agentic framework that formulates neural architecture discovery for visual recognition as a hypothesis-driven scientific inquiry. Given a human-specified high-level research direction, HypoExplore ideates,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Jaywon Koo , Jefferson Hernandez , Ruozhen He , Hanjie Chen , Chen Wei , Vicente Ordonez