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Vision Transformers (ViTs) mark a revolutionary advance in neural networks with their token mixer's powerful global context capability. However, the pairwise token affinity and complex matrix operations limit its deployment on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Tianfang Zhang , Lei Li , Yang Zhou , Wentao Liu , Chen Qian , Jenq-Neng Hwang , Xiangyang Ji

Vision Transformers and their variants have achieved remarkable success in diverse visual perception tasks. Despite their effectiveness, they suffer from two significant limitations. First, the quadratic computational complexity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-16 Ali K. Rahimian , Manish K. Govind , Subhajit Maity , Dominick Reilly , Christian Kümmerle , Srijan Das , Aritra Dutta

Self-attention has recently been adopted for a wide range of sequence modeling problems. Despite its effectiveness, self-attention suffers from quadratic compute and memory requirements with respect to sequence length. Successful approaches…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Aurko Roy , Mohammad Saffar , Ashish Vaswani , David Grangier

Transformer-based models have emerged as one of the most widely used architectures for natural language processing, natural language generation, and image generation. The size of the state-of-the-art models has increased steadily reaching…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Rya Sanovar , Srikant Bharadwaj , Renee St. Amant , Victor Rühle , Saravan Rajmohan

Utilizing transformer architectures for semantic segmentation of high-resolution images is hindered by the attention's quadratic computational complexity in the number of tokens. A solution to this challenge involves decreasing the number…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Daniel Kienzle , Marco Kantonis , Robin Schön , Rainer Lienhart

Built on top of self-attention mechanisms, vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance on a variety of vision tasks recently. While achieving excellent performance, they still require relatively intensive computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Lingchen Meng , Hengduo Li , Bor-Chun Chen , Shiyi Lan , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Ser-Nam Lim

Recently, self-attention mechanisms have shown impressive performance in various NLP and CV tasks, which can help capture sequential characteristics and derive global information. In this work, we explore how to extend self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Haowei Zhu , Wenjing Ke , Dong Li , Ji Liu , Lu Tian , Yi Shan

In this paper, we proposed large selective kernel and sparse attention network (LSKSANet) for remote sensing image semantic segmentation. The LSKSANet is a lightweight network that effectively combines convolution with sparse attention…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-06-04 Miao Fu , Feng Gao , Ruzhuang Hua , Yanhai Gan , Xiaowei Zhou , Yang Zhou

Transformers have been matching deep convolutional networks for vision architectures in recent works. Most work is focused on getting the best results on large-scale benchmarks, and scaling laws seem to be the most successful strategy:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Corentin Dancette , Matthieu Cord

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 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

Cross Attention is a popular method for retrieving information from a set of context tokens for making predictions. At inference time, for each prediction, Cross Attention scans the full set of $\mathcal{O}(N)$ tokens. In practice, however,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Leo Feng , Frederick Tung , Hossein Hajimirsadeghi , Yoshua Bengio , Mohamed Osama Ahmed

Multimodal Sentiment Analysis (MSA) seeks to understand human emotions by jointly analyzing data from multiple modalities typically text and images offering a richer and more accurate interpretation than unimodal approaches. In this paper,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Phuong Q. Dao , Mark Roantree , Vuong M. Ngo

We present a novel method that extends the self-attention mechanism of a vision transformer (ViT) for more accurate object detection across diverse datasets. ViTs show strong capability for image understanding tasks such as object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Tan Nguyen , Coy D. Heldermon , Corey Toler-Franklin

We present \textbf{Met}a-\textbf{T}oken \textbf{Le}arning (Mettle), a simple and memory-efficient method for adapting large-scale pretrained transformer models to downstream audio-visual tasks. Instead of sequentially modifying the output…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Jinxing Zhou , Zhihui Li , Yongqiang Yu , Yanghao Zhou , Ruohao Guo , Guangyao Li , Yuxin Mao , Mingfei Han , Xiaojun Chang , Meng Wang

Despite the recent success in many applications, the high computational requirements of vision transformers limit their use in resource-constrained settings. While many existing methods improve the quadratic complexity of attention, in most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Dmitrii Marin , Jen-Hao Rick Chang , Anurag Ranjan , Anish Prabhu , Mohammad Rastegari , Oncel Tuzel

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have revolutionized computer vision by leveraging self-attention to model long-range dependencies. However, ViTs face challenges such as high computational costs due to the quadratic scaling of self-attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhoujie Qian

Transformer has achieved great success in NLP. However, the quadratic complexity of the self-attention mechanism in Transformer makes it inefficient in handling long sequences. Many existing works explore to accelerate Transformers by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Chuhan Wu , Fangzhao Wu , Tao Qi , Binxing Jiao , Daxin Jiang , Yongfeng Huang , Xing Xie

Accommodating long sequences efficiently in autoregressive Transformers, especially within an extended context window, poses significant challenges due to the quadratic computational complexity and substantial KV memory requirements…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Chao Lou , Zixia Jia , Zilong Zheng , Kewei Tu

Popular Transformer networks have been successfully applied to remote sensing (RS) image change detection (CD) identifications and achieve better results than most convolutional neural networks (CNNs), but they still suffer from two main…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Tao Lei , Yetong Xu , Hailong Ning , Zhiyong Lv , Chongdan Min , Yaochu Jin , Asoke K. Nandi