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Transformers have attracted increasing interests in computer vision, but they still fall behind state-of-the-art convolutional networks. In this work, we show that while Transformers tend to have larger model capacity, their generalization…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Zihang Dai , Hanxiao Liu , Quoc V. Le , Mingxing Tan

During the recent years, correlation filters have shown dominant and spectacular results for visual object tracking. The types of the features that are employed in these family of trackers significantly affect the performance of visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-13 Erhan Gundogdu , A. Aydin Alatan

Vision-transformers (ViTs) and large-scale convolution-neural-networks (CNNs) have reshaped computer vision through pretrained feature representations that enable strong transfer learning for diverse tasks. However, their efficiency as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Alon Kaya , Igal Bilik , Inna Stainvas

Learned optimizers -- neural networks that are trained to act as optimizers -- have the potential to dramatically accelerate training of machine learning models. However, even when meta-trained across thousands of tasks at huge…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-09-23 James Harrison , Luke Metz , Jascha Sohl-Dickstein

Transfer learning has become an essential tool in modern computer vision, allowing practitioners to leverage backbones, pretrained on large datasets, to train successful models from limited annotated data. Choosing the right backbone is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Joris Guerin , Shray Bansal , Amirreza Shaban , Paulo Mann , Harshvardhan Gazula

The architecture of transformers, which recently witness booming applications in vision tasks, has pivoted against the widespread convolutional paradigm. Relying on the tokenization process that splits inputs into multiple tokens,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-22 Shengju Qian , Yi Zhu , Wenbo Li , Mu Li , Jiaya Jia

We present a new direction for increasing the interpretability of deep neural networks (DNNs) by promoting weight-input alignment during training. For this, we propose to replace the linear transformations in DNNs by our novel B-cos…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Moritz Böhle , Navdeeppal Singh , Mario Fritz , Bernt Schiele

We introduce submodel co-training, a regularization method related to co-training, self-distillation and stochastic depth. Given a neural network to be trained, for each sample we implicitly instantiate two altered networks, ``submodels'',…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Hugo Touvron , Matthieu Cord , Maxime Oquab , Piotr Bojanowski , Jakob Verbeek , Hervé Jégou

Transformers exhibit great advantages in handling computer vision tasks. They model image classification tasks by utilizing a multi-head attention mechanism to process a series of patches consisting of split images. However, for complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Haichao Zhang , Kuangrong Hao , Witold Pedrycz , Lei Gao , Xuesong Tang , Bing Wei

Recognition and reasoning are two pillars of visual understanding. However, these tasks have an imbalance in focus; whereas recent advances in neural networks have shown strong empirical performance in visual recognition, there has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Calvin Luo , Boqing Gong , Ting Chen , Chen Sun

We are witnessing a modeling shift from CNN to Transformers in computer vision. In this work, we present a self-supervised learning approach called MoBY, with Vision Transformers as its backbone architecture. The approach basically has no…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Zhenda Xie , Yutong Lin , Zhuliang Yao , Zheng Zhang , Qi Dai , Yue Cao , Han Hu

We address the question of characterizing and finding optimal representations for supervised learning. Traditionally, this question has been tackled using the Information Bottleneck, which compresses the inputs while retaining information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-19 Yann Dubois , Douwe Kiela , David J. Schwab , Ramakrishna Vedantam

Vision Transformer (ViT) has shown its advantages over the convolutional neural network (CNN) with its ability to capture global long-range dependencies for visual representation learning. Besides ViT, contrastive learning is another…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Hua-Bao Ling , Bowen Zhu , Dong Huang , Ding-Hua Chen , Chang-Dong Wang , Jian-Huang Lai

Within Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), the convolution operations are good at extracting local features but experience difficulty to capture global representations. Within visual transformer, the cascaded self-attention modules can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-11 Zhiliang Peng , Wei Huang , Shanzhi Gu , Lingxi Xie , Yaowei Wang , Jianbin Jiao , Qixiang Ye

We consider learning representations (features) in the setting in which we have access to multiple unlabeled views of the data for learning while only one view is available for downstream tasks. Previous work on this problem has proposed…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-02-03 Weiran Wang , Raman Arora , Karen Livescu , Jeff Bilmes

Shortcut learning, where machine learning models exploit spurious correlations in data instead of capturing meaningful features, poses a significant challenge to building robust and generalizable models. This phenomenon is prevalent across…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Pirzada Suhail , Vrinda Goel , Amit Sethi

It is arguable that whether the single camera captured (monocular) image datasets are sufficient enough to train and test convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for imitating the biological neural network structures of the human brain. As…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-24 Yigit Oktar , Diclehan Karakaya , Oguzhan Ulucan , Mehmet Turkan

Many real-world applications involve data from multiple modalities and thus exhibit the view heterogeneity. For example, user modeling on social media might leverage both the topology of the underlying social network and the content of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-02-16 Lecheng Zheng , Yu Cheng , Hongxia Yang , Nan Cao , Jingrui He

In recent years, large-scale visual backbones have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in learning general-purpose features from images via extensive pre-training. Concurrently, many efficient architectures have emerged that have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Xuyang Wang , Lingjuan Miao , Zhiqiang Zhou

Transformers are popular neural network models that use layers of self-attention and fully-connected nodes with embedded tokens. Vision Transformers (ViT) adapt transformers for image recognition tasks. In order to do this, the images are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Brian Kenji Iwana , Akihiro Kusuda