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Vision Transformers (ViTs) deliver state-of-the-art accuracy but their quadratic attention cost and redundant computations severely hinder deployment on latency and resource-constrained platforms. Existing pruning approaches treat either…

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Although Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved significant success in computer vision, it does not perform well in dense prediction tasks due to the lack of inner-patch information interaction and the limited diversity of feature scale.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Chunlong Xia , Xinliang Wang , Feng Lv , Xin Hao , Yifeng Shi

The groundbreaking performance of transformers in Natural Language Processing (NLP) tasks has led to their replacement of traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), owing to the efficiency and accuracy achieved through the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Gousia Habib , Damandeep Singh , Ishfaq Ahmad Malik , Brejesh Lall

Vision Transformers (ViTs) represent a groundbreaking shift in machine learning approaches to computer vision. Unlike traditional approaches, ViTs employ the self-attention mechanism, which has been widely used in natural language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Mohammad Erfan Sadeghi , Arash Fayyazi , Suhas Somashekar , Armin Abdollahi , Massoud Pedram

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in interpreting complex medical imaging data. However, their significant computational and memory demands pose challenges for deployment in real-time, resource-constrained…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Mikolaj Walczak , Uttej Kallakuri , Edward Humes , Xiaomin Lin , Tinoosh Mohsenin

Deep neural networks have consistently represented the state of the art in most computer vision problems. In these scenarios, larger and more complex models have demonstrated superior performance to smaller architectures, especially when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-16 Alexandre Lopes , Fernando Pereira dos Santos , Diulhio de Oliveira , Mauricio Schiezaro , Helio Pedrini

Deploying sparse Mixture of Experts(MoE) Vision Transformers remains a challenge due to linear expert memory scaling. Linear memory scaling stores $N$ independent expert weight matrices requiring $\mathcal{O}(N_E \cdot d^2)$ memory, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Aryan Karmore

Recent advancements in vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated that larger models often achieve superior performance. However, training these models remains computationally intensive and costly. To address this challenge, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Zhiwei Hao , Jianyuan Guo , Li Shen , Kai Han , Yehui Tang , Han Hu , Yunhe Wang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as the backbone of many segmentation models, consistently achieving state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. However, their success comes at a significant computational cost. Image token pruning is one of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Hanning Chen , Yang Ni , Wenjun Huang , Yezi Liu , SungHeon Jeong , Fei Wen , Nathaniel Bastian , Hugo Latapie , Mohsen Imani

The adoption of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in resource-constrained applications necessitates improvements in inference throughput. To this end several token pruning and merging approaches have been proposed that improve efficiency by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Benjamin Bergner , Christoph Lippert , Aravindh Mahendran

In this paper, we propose a progressive learning paradigm for transformer-based variable-rate image compression. Our approach covers a wide range of compression rates with the assistance of the Layer-adaptive Prompt Module (LPM). Inspired…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Shiyu Qin , Yimin Zhou , Jinpeng Wang , Bin Chen , Baoyi An , Tao Dai , Shu-Tao Xia

Our work tackles the computational challenges of contrastive learning methods, particularly for the pretraining of Vision Transformers (ViTs). Despite the effectiveness of contrastive learning, the substantial computational resources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-01 Jinhong Lin , Cheng-En Wu , Yibing Wei , Pedro Morgado

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become one of the dominant architectures in computer vision, and pre-trained ViT models are commonly adapted to new tasks via fine-tuning. Recent works proposed several parameter-efficient transfer learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Imad Eddine Marouf , Enzo Tartaglione , Stéphane Lathuilière

Achieving successful variable bitrate compression with computationally simple algorithms from a single end-to-end learned image or video compression model remains a challenge. Many approaches have been proposed, including conditional…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-03-01 Fatih Kamisli , Fabien Racape , Hyomin Choi

Learning-based methods have effectively promoted the community of image compression. Meanwhile, variational autoencoder (VAE) based variable-rate approaches have recently gained much attention to avoid the usage of a set of different…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-09-13 Shilv Cai , Zhijun Zhang , Liqun Chen , Luxin Yan , Sheng Zhong , Xu Zou

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in image classification, yet their attention mechanisms often remain opaque and exhibit dense, non-structured behaviors. In this work, we adapt our previously proposed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Vasileios Arampatzakis , George Pavlidis , Nikolaos Mitianoudis , Nikos Papamarkos

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

The success of deep learning in computer vision has been driven by models of increasing scale, from deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) to large Vision Transformers (ViT). While effective, these architectures are parameter-intensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Ange-Clément Akazan , Abdoulaye Koroko , Verlon Roel Mbingui , Choukouriyah Arinloye , Hassan Fifen , Rose Bandolo

Tensor decomposition is a mathematically supported technique for data compression. It consists of applying some kind of a Low Rank Decomposition technique on the tensors or matrices in order to reduce the redundancy of the data. However, it…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Habib Hajimolahoseini , Walid Ahmed , Austin Wen , Yang Liu