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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…

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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable performance in various image classification tasks by leveraging the attention mechanism to process image patches as tokens. However, the high computational and memory demands of ViTs pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Zhengqing Yuan , Rong Zhou , Hongyi Wang , Lifang He , Yanfang Ye , Lichao Sun

The computational overhead of Vision Transformers in practice stems fundamentally from their deep architectures, yet existing acceleration strategies have primarily targeted algorithmic-level optimizations such as token pruning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Chengwei Zhou , Vipin Chaudhary , Gourav Datta

Deep neural networks typically impose significant computational loads and memory consumption. Moreover, the large parameters pose constraints on deploying the model on edge devices such as embedded systems. Tensor decomposition offers a…

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Due to the high computation overhead of Vision Transformers (ViTs), In-memory Computing architectures are being researched towards energy-efficient deployment in edge-computing scenarios. Prior works have proposed efficient…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Abhishek Moitra , Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Youngeun Kim , Priyadarshini Panda

Deep learning models are increasingly utilized on resource-constrained edge devices for real-time data analytics. Recently, Vision Transformer and their variants have shown exceptional performance in various computer vision tasks. However,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Xiang Liu , Yijun Song , Xia Li , Yifei Sun , Huiying Lan , Zemin Liu , Linshan Jiang , Jialin Li

While vision transformers have achieved impressive results, effectively and efficiently accelerating these models can further boost performances. In this work, we propose a dense/sparse training framework to obtain a unified model, enabling…

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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved strong performance in visual recognition, yet their deployment in resource-constrained industrial environments remains limited. Some main challenges are their high computational cost, memory…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Phat Nguyen , Xue Geng , Kaixin Xu , Wang Zhe , Xulei Yang , Ngai-Man Cheung

Vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a prevalent architecture for vision tasks owing to their impressive performance. However, when it comes to handling long token sequences, especially in dense prediction tasks that require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Jin Li , Yaoming Wang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Bowen Shi , Dongsheng Jiang , Chenglin Li , Wenrui Dai , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

Vision transformers have emerged as a promising alternative to convolutional neural networks for various image analysis tasks, offering comparable or superior performance. However, one significant drawback of ViTs is their…

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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

Since its inception, Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a prevalent model in the computer vision domain. Nonetheless, the multi-head self-attention (MHSA) mechanism in ViT is computationally expensive due to its calculation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zhe Bian , Zhe Wang , Wenqiang Han , Kangping Wang

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully applied in image classification tasks recently. In this paper, we show that, unlike convolution neural networks (CNNs)that can be improved by stacking more convolutional layers, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Daquan Zhou , Bingyi Kang , Xiaojie Jin , Linjie Yang , Xiaochen Lian , Zihang Jiang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Transformer architecture has gained popularity due to its ability to scale with large dataset. Consequently, there is a need to reduce the model size and latency, especially for on-device deployment. We focus on vision transformer proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Ankur Kumar

Vision transformers (ViTs) are emerging with significantly improved accuracy in computer vision tasks. However, their complex architecture and enormous computation/storage demand impose urgent needs for new hardware accelerator design…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Zhengang Li , Mengshu Sun , Alec Lu , Haoyu Ma , Geng Yuan , Yanyue Xie , Hao Tang , Yanyu Li , Miriam Leeser , Zhangyang Wang , Xue Lin , Zhenman Fang

Token compression expedites the training and inference of Vision Transformers (ViTs) by reducing the number of the redundant tokens, e.g., pruning inattentive tokens or merging similar tokens. However, when applied to downstream tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Shibo Jie , Yehui Tang , Jianyuan Guo , Zhi-Hong Deng , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang

Vision Transformers have attracted a lot of attention recently since the successful implementation of Vision Transformer (ViT) on vision tasks. With vision Transformers, specifically the multi-head self-attention modules, networks can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-27 Xiangyu Chen , Ying Qin , Wenju Xu , Andrés M. Bur , Cuncong Zhong , Guanghui Wang

The advent of Vision Transformers (ViTs) marks a substantial paradigm shift in the realm of computer vision. ViTs capture the global information of images through self-attention modules, which perform dot product computations among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shuoxi Zhang , Hanpeng Liu , Stephen Lin , Kun He

Token compression is essential for reducing the computational and memory requirements of transformer models, enabling their deployment in resource-constrained environments. In this work, we propose an efficient and hardware-compatible token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Junzhu Mao , Yang Shen , Jinyang Guo , Yazhou Yao , Xiansheng Hua

The emergence of vision transformers (ViTs) in image classification has shifted the methodologies for visual representation learning. In particular, ViTs learn visual representation at full receptive field per layer across all the image…

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