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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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are essential in computer vision but are computationally intensive, too. Model quantization, particularly to low bit-widths like 4-bit, aims to alleviate this difficulty, yet existing Post-Training Quantization…

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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated strong performance across a range of computer vision tasks by modeling long-range spatial interactions via self-attention. However, channel-wise mixing in ViTs remains static, relying on fixed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Aon Safdar , Mohamed Saadeldin

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged with superior performance on computer vision tasks compared to convolutional neural network (CNN)-based models. However, ViTs are mainly designed for image classification that generate single-scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-24 Jiaqi Gu , Hyoukjun Kwon , Dilin Wang , Wei Ye , Meng Li , Yu-Hsin Chen , Liangzhen Lai , Vikas Chandra , David Z. Pan

Vision transformer (ViT) models exhibit substandard optimizability. In particular, they are sensitive to the choice of optimizer (AdamW vs. SGD), optimizer hyperparameters, and training schedule length. In comparison, modern convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Tete Xiao , Mannat Singh , Eric Mintun , Trevor Darrell , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

Vision Transformers (ViTs) and MLPs signal further efforts on replacing hand-wired features or inductive biases with general-purpose neural architectures. Existing works empower the models by massive data, such as large-scale pre-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-15 Xiangning Chen , Cho-Jui Hsieh , Boqing Gong

Recently, foundation models based on Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become widely available. However, their fine-tuning process is highly resource-intensive, and it hinders their adoption in several edge or low-energy applications. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Alessio Devoto , Federico Alvetreti , Jary Pomponi , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Pasquale Minervini , Simone Scardapane

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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become increasingly popular in large-scale Vision and Language Pre-training (VLP) models. Although previous VLP research has demonstrated the efficacy of ViTs, these efforts still struggle with computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Wei Ye , Chaoya Jiang , Haiyang Xu , Chenhao Ye , Chenliang Li , Ming Yan , Shikun Zhang , Songhang Huang , Fei Huang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a state-of-the-art solution for object classification tasks. However, their computational demands and high parameter count make them unsuitable for real-time inference, prompting the need for…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-02-16 Kyle Marino , Pengmiao Zhang , Viktor Prasanna

In this paper, we ask whether Vision Transformers (ViTs) can serve as an underlying architecture for improving the adversarial robustness of machine learning models against evasion attacks. While earlier works have focused on improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Edoardo Debenedetti , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Post-training quantization (PTQ) has stood out as a cost-effective and promising model compression paradigm in recent years, as it avoids computationally intensive model retraining. Nevertheless, current PTQ methods for Vision Transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Zhuguanyu Wu , Shihe Wang , Jiayi Zhang , Jiaxin Chen , Yunhong Wang

Hybrid vision transformers combine the elements of conventional neural networks (NN) and vision transformers (ViT) to enable lightweight and accurate detection. However, several challenges remain for their efficient deployment on…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Joren Dumoulin , Pouya Houshmand , Vikram Jain , Marian Verhelst

The Vision Transformer (ViT) excels in accuracy when handling high-resolution images, yet it confronts the challenge of significant spatial redundancy, leading to increased computational and memory requirements. To address this, we present…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Youbing Hu , Yun Cheng , Anqi Lu , Zhiqiang Cao , Dawei Wei , Jie Liu , Zhijun Li

Recent state-of-the-art performances of Vision Transformers (ViT) in computer vision tasks demonstrate that a general-purpose architecture, which implements long-range self-attention, could replace the local feature learning operations of…

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

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

While transformer architectures have dominated computer vision in recent years, these models cannot easily be deployed on hardware with limited resources for autonomous driving tasks that require real-time-performance. Their computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Nikolas Ebert , Laurenz Reichardt , Didier Stricker , Oliver Wasenmüller

Transformer design is the de facto standard for natural language processing tasks. The success of the transformer design in natural language processing has lately piqued the interest of researchers in the domain of computer vision. When…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-29 Md Sohag Mia , Abu Bakor Hayat Arnob , Abdu Naim , Abdullah Al Bary Voban , Md Shariful Islam

Vision Transformers (ViTs) exhibit superior performance in computer vision tasks but face deployment challenges on resource-constrained devices due to high computational/memory demands. While Mixture-of-Experts Vision Transformers…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jiale Dong , Hao Wu , Zihao Wang , Wenqi Lou , Zhendong Zheng , Lei Gong , Chao Wang , Xuehai Zhou