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Vision transformers (ViTs) have become the popular structures and outperformed convolutional neural networks (CNNs) on various vision tasks. However, such powerful transformers bring a huge computation burden, because of the exhausting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-13 Zhuofan Zong , Kunchang Li , Guanglu Song , Yali Wang , Yu Qiao , Biao Leng , Yu Liu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become prominent models for solving various vision tasks. However, the interpretability of ViTs has not kept pace with their promising performance. While there has been a surge of interest in developing {\it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-02 Yao Qiang , Chengyin Li , Prashant Khanduri , Dongxiao Zhu

For computer vision, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become one of the go-to deep net architectures. Despite being inspired by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), ViTs' output remains sensitive to small spatial shifts in the input, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Renan A. Rojas-Gomez , Teck-Yian Lim , Minh N. Do , Raymond A. Yeh

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are normally regarded as a stack of transformer layers. In this work, we propose a novel view of ViTs showing that they can be seen as ensemble networks containing multiple parallel paths with different lengths.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-15 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Hao Luo , Fan Wang , Mike Zheng Shou

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are built by stacking independently parameterized blocks, but it remains unclear how much of this depth requires layer specific transformations and how much can be realized through recurrent computation. We study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Michal Byra , Pawel Olszowiec , Grzegorz Stefanski , Grzegorz Gruszczynski , Alberto Presta

Vision Transformer (ViT) is emerging as the state-of-the-art architecture for image recognition. While recent studies suggest that ViTs are more robust than their convolutional counterparts, our experiments find that ViTs trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Chengzhi Mao , Lu Jiang , Mostafa Dehghani , Carl Vondrick , Rahul Sukthankar , Irfan Essa

This work presents a simple vision transformer design as a strong baseline for object localization and instance segmentation tasks. Transformers recently demonstrate competitive performance in image classification tasks. To adopt ViT to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-04 Wuyang Chen , Xianzhi Du , Fan Yang , Lucas Beyer , Xiaohua Zhai , Tsung-Yi Lin , Huizhong Chen , Jing Li , Xiaodan Song , Zhangyang Wang , Denny Zhou

Vision Transformers (ViTs) achieve state-of-the-art performance on challenging vision tasks, but their deployment on edge devices is severely hindered by the computational complexity and global reduction bottleneck imposed by layer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Kieran Carrigg , Sigur de Vries , Amirhossein Sadough , Marcel van Gerven

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been an alternative design paradigm to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, the training of ViTs is much harder than CNNs, as it is sensitive to the training parameters, such as learning rate,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Pichao Wang , Xue Wang , Hao Luo , Jingkai Zhou , Zhipeng Zhou , Fan Wang , Hao Li , Rong Jin

An open challenge in reinforcement learning (RL) is the effective deployment of a trained policy to new or slightly different situations as well as semantically-similar environments. We introduce Symmetry-Invariant Transformer (SiT), a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Matthias Weissenbacher , Rishabh Agarwal , Yoshinobu Kawahara

Multi-scale Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a powerful backbone for computer vision tasks, while the self-attention computation in Transformer scales quadratically w.r.t. the input patch number. Thus, existing solutions commonly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Ting Yao , Yingwei Pan , Yehao Li , Chong-Wah Ngo , Tao Mei

The recent success of Vision Transformers has generated significant interest in attention mechanisms and transformer architectures. Although existing methods have proposed spiking self-attention mechanisms compatible with spiking neural…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-15 Sanaz Mahmoodi Takaghaj

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are pivotal for foundational models in scientific imagery, including Earth science applications, due to their capability to process large sequence lengths. While transformers for text has inspired scaling sequence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-28 Aristeidis Tsaris , Chengming Zhang , Xiao Wang , Junqi Yin , Siyan Liu , Moetasim Ashfaq , Ming Fan , Jong Youl Choi , Mohamed Wahib , Dan Lu , Prasanna Balaprakash , Feiyi Wang

The vision transformer is a model that breaks down each image into a sequence of tokens with a fixed length and processes them similarly to words in natural language processing. Although increasing the number of tokens typically results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Qiqi Zhou , Yichen Zhu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) can learn strong image-level representations while their patch representations become less effective for dense prediction during prolonged training. We revisit this dense degradation phenomenon and argue that it…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Linxiang Su

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully applied in image classification tasks recently. In this paper, we show that, unlike convolution neural networks (CNNs)that can be improved by stacking more convolutional layers, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Daquan Zhou , Bingyi Kang , Xiaojie Jin , Linjie Yang , Xiaochen Lian , Zihang Jiang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures represent images as collections of high-dimensional vectorized tokens, each corresponding to a rectangular non-overlapping patch. This representation trades spatial granularity for embedding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-08 Dong Lao , Yangchao Wu , Tian Yu Liu , Alex Wong , Stefano Soatto

The computational overhead of Vision Transformers in practice stems fundamentally from their deep architectures, yet existing acceleration strategies have primarily targeted algorithmic-level optimizations such as token pruning and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Chengwei Zhou , Vipin Chaudhary , Gourav Datta

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art architecture in representation learning, leveraging self-attention mechanisms to excel in various tasks. ViTs split images into fixed-size patches, constraining them to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Aswathi Varma , Suprosanna Shit , Chinmay Prabhakar , Daniel Scholz , Hongwei Bran Li , Bjoern Menze , Daniel Rueckert , Benedikt Wiestler