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Vision transformer emerges as a potential architecture for vision tasks. However, the intense computation and non-negligible delay hinder its application in the real world. As a widespread model compression technique, existing post-training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Yifu Ding , Haotong Qin , Qinghua Yan , Zhenhua Chai , Junjie Liu , Xiaolin Wei , Xianglong Liu

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 achieved state-of-the-art performance on various vision tasks. However, ViTs' self-attention module is still arguably a major bottleneck, limiting their achievable hardware efficiency. Meanwhile, existing…

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As emerging hardware begins to support mixed bit-width arithmetic computation, mixed-precision quantization is widely used to reduce the complexity of neural networks. However, Vision Transformers (ViTs) require complex self-attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Junrui Xiao , Zhikai Li , Lianwei Yang , Qingyi Gu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as the fundamental architecture for most computer vision fields, but the considerable memory and computation costs hinders their application on resource-limited devices. As one of the most powerful…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Junrui Xiao , Zhikai Li , Lianwei Yang , Qingyi Gu

Post-training quantization (PTQ) is an efficient model compression technique that quantizes a pretrained full-precision model using only a small calibration set of unlabeled samples without retraining. PTQ methods for convolutional neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Jaehyeon Moon , Dohyung Kim , Junyong Cheon , Bumsub Ham

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

Vision Transformer (ViT) has become one of the most prevailing fundamental backbone networks in the computer vision community. Despite the high accuracy, deploying it in real applications raises critical challenges including the high…

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Diffusion transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance in visual generation tasks, such as generating realistic images or videos based on textual instructions. However, larger model sizes and multi-frame processing for video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tianchen Zhao , Tongcheng Fang , Haofeng Huang , Enshu Liu , Rui Wan , Widyadewi Soedarmadji , Shiyao Li , Zinan Lin , Guohao Dai , Shengen Yan , Huazhong Yang , Xuefei Ning , Yu Wang

Data-Free Quantization (DFQ) enables the quantization of Vision Transformers (ViTs) without requiring access to data, allowing for the deployment of ViTs on devices with limited resources. In DFQ, the quantization model must be calibrated…

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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…

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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as powerful models in the field of computer vision, delivering superior performance across various vision tasks. However, the high computational complexity poses a significant barrier to their…

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Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance across various natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, their deployment is challenging due to the substantial computational resources required. Power-of-two…

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Recently, transformer has achieved remarkable performance on a variety of computer vision applications. Compared with mainstream convolutional neural networks, vision transformers are often of sophisticated architectures for extracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-29 Zhenhua Liu , Yunhe Wang , Kai Han , Siwei Ma , Wen Gao

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art accuracy on various computer vision tasks. However, their high computational complexity prevents them from being applied to many real-world applications. Weight and token pruning are…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Dhruv Parikh , Shouyi Li , Bingyi Zhang , Rajgopal Kannan , Carl Busart , Viktor Prasanna

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

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Kaixin Xu , Zhe Wang , Chunyun Chen , Xue Geng , Jie Lin , Mohamed M. Sabry Aly , Xulei Yang , Min Wu , Xiaoli Li , Weisi Lin

The transformer extends its success from the language to the vision domain. Because of the stacked self-attention and cross-attention blocks, the acceleration deployment of vision transformer on GPU hardware is challenging and also rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Chong Yu , Tao Chen , Zhongxue Gan , Jiayuan Fan

Vision Transformers (ViTs) leverage the transformer architecture to effectively capture global context, demonstrating strong performance in computer vision tasks. A major challenge in ViT hardware acceleration is that the model family…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Can Xiao , Jianyi Cheng , Aaron Zhao

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated their superior accuracy for computer vision tasks compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, ViT models are often computation-intensive for efficient deployment on…