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Recent Vision Transformer (ViT)-based methods for Image Super-Resolution have demonstrated impressive performance. However, they suffer from significant complexity, resulting in high inference times and memory usage. Additionally, ViT…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-06 Jeongsoo Kim , Jongho Nang , Junsuk Choe

Attention-based Transformers have revolutionized natural language processing (NLP) and shown strong performance in computer vision (CV) tasks. However, as the input sequence varies, the computational bottlenecks in Transformer models…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Huizheng Wang , Hongbin Wang , Shaojun Wei , Yang Hu , Shouyi Yin

Transformers have sprung up in the field of computer vision. In this work, we explore whether the core self-attention module in Transformer is the key to achieving excellent performance in image recognition. To this end, we build an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-31 Chuanxin Tang , Yucheng Zhao , Guangting Wang , Chong Luo , Wenxuan Xie , Wenjun Zeng

Transformer-based deep learning models have achieved state-of-the-art performance across numerous language and vision tasks. While the self-attention mechanism, a core component of transformers, has proven capable of handling complex data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Laziz Abdullaev , Tan M. Nguyen

The self-attention mechanism has been a key factor in the advancement of vision Transformers. However, its quadratic complexity imposes a heavy computational burden in high-resolution scenarios, restricting the practical application.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-29 Dongchen Han , Tianyu Li , Ziyi Wang , Gao Huang

We propose an efficient interactive method for multi-head self-attention via decomposition. For existing methods using multi-head self-attention, the attention operation of each head is computed independently. However, we show that the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Hankyul Kang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Jongbin Ryu

Transformers have achieved remarkable success in sequence modeling and beyond but suffer from quadratic computational and memory complexities with respect to the length of the input sequence. Leveraging techniques include sparse and linear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-02 Tan Nguyen , Richard G. Baraniuk , Robert M. Kirby , Stanley J. Osher , Bao Wang

This paper presents a new vision Transformer, Scale-Aware Modulation Transformer (SMT), that can handle various downstream tasks efficiently by combining the convolutional network and vision Transformer. The proposed Scale-Aware Modulation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-27 Weifeng Lin , Ziheng Wu , Jiayu Chen , Jun Huang , Lianwen Jin

Multi-head attention advances neural machine translation by working out multiple versions of attention in different subspaces, but the neglect of semantic overlapping between subspaces increases the difficulty of translation and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-04 Shuhao Gu , Yang Feng

While transformers have begun to dominate many tasks in vision, applying them to large images is still computationally difficult. A large reason for this is that self-attention scales quadratically with the number of tokens, which in turn,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Daniel Bolya , Cheng-Yang Fu , Xiaoliang Dai , Peizhao Zhang , Judy Hoffman

When examined through the lens of their residual streams, a puzzling property emerges in transformer networks: residual contributions (e.g., attention heads) sometimes specialize in specific tasks or input attributes. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Lorenzo Basile , Valentino Maiorca , Luca Bortolussi , Emanuele Rodolà , Francesco Locatello

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have made substantial progress in integrating large language models (LLMs) with visual inputs, enabling advanced multimodal reasoning. Despite their success, a persistent challenge is hallucination-where…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Jinghan He , Kuan Zhu , Haiyun Guo , Junfeng Fang , Zhenglin Hua , Yuheng Jia , Ming Tang , Tat-Seng Chua , Jinqiao Wang

Post-training with explicit reasoning traces is common to improve the reasoning capabilities of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, acquiring high-quality reasoning traces is often costly and time-consuming. Hence, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Qihuang Zhong , Liang Ding , Wenjie Xuan , Juhua Liu , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao

Vision large language models (VLLMs) are focusing primarily on handling complex and fine-grained visual information by incorporating advanced vision encoders and scaling up visual models. However, these approaches face high training and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yuqi Pang , Bowen Yang , Yun Cao , Rong Fan , Xiaoyu Li , Chen He

In recent years, Transformer has achieved good results in Natural Language Processing (NLP) and has also started to expand into Computer Vision (CV). Excellent models such as the Vision Transformer and Swin Transformer have emerged. At the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Wei Hu , Dian Xu , Zimeng Fan , Fang Liu , Yanxiang He

Computational workloads composing traditional transformer models are starkly bifurcated. Multi-Head Attention (MHA) and Grouped-Query Attention are memory-bound due to low arithmetic intensity, while FeedForward Networks are compute-bound.…

This paper investigates the high-level decision-making problem in highway scenarios regarding lane changing and over-taking other slower vehicles. In particular, this paper aims to improve the Travel Assist feature for automatic overtaking…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-01-04 Alireza Shamsoshoara , Safin B Salih , Pedram Aghazadeh

Visual transformers have driven major progress in remote sensing image analysis, particularly in object detection and segmentation. Recent vision-language and multimodal models further extend these capabilities by incorporating auxiliary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yu Li , Guilherme N. DeSouza , Praveen Rao , Chi-Ren Shyu

Transformers are the mainstream of NLP applications and are becoming increasingly popular in other domains such as Computer Vision. Despite the improvements in model quality, the enormous computation costs make Transformers difficult at…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-22 Liu Liu , Zheng Qu , Zhaodong Chen , Yufei Ding , Yuan Xie

Recent approaches to multi-task learning (MTL) have focused on modelling connections between tasks at the decoder level. This leads to a tight coupling between tasks, which need retraining if a new task is inserted or removed. We argue that…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Jaime Spencer , Richard Bowden , Simon Hadfield