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With rich visual data, such as images, becoming readily associated with items, visually-aware recommendation systems (VARS) have been widely used in different applications. Recent studies have shown that VARS are vulnerable to item-image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 Minglei Yin , Bin Liu , Neil Zhenqiang Gong , Xin Li

Visual Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) has become a powerful alternative for full fine-tuning so as to adapt pre-trained vision models to downstream tasks, which only tunes a small number of parameters while freezing the vast…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Haoyu He , Jianfei Cai , Jing Zhang , Dacheng Tao , Bohan Zhuang

Self-attention based models such as vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a very competitive architecture alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision. Despite increasingly stronger variants with ever-higher…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-25 Junting Pan , Adrian Bulat , Fuwen Tan , Xiatian Zhu , Lukasz Dudziak , Hongsheng Li , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

Fine-tuning pre-trained transformers is a powerful technique for enhancing the performance of base models on specific tasks. From early applications in models like BERT to fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs), this approach has been…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Suneel Nadipalli

The Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture has become widely recognized in computer vision, leveraging its self-attention mechanism to achieve remarkable success across various tasks. Despite its strengths, ViT's optimization remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Haoyu Yun , Hamid Krim

Recently, Vision Transformer (ViT) has continuously established new milestones in the computer vision field, while the high computation and memory cost makes its propagation in industrial production difficult. Pruning, a traditional model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-22 Zhenglun Kong , Peiyan Dong , Xiaolong Ma , Xin Meng , Mengshu Sun , Wei Niu , Xuan Shen , Geng Yuan , Bin Ren , Minghai Qin , Hao Tang , Yanzhi Wang

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

We study a crucial yet often overlooked issue inherent to Vision Transformers (ViTs): feature maps of these models exhibit grid-like artifacts, which hurt the performance of ViTs in downstream dense prediction tasks such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiawei Yang , Katie Z Luo , Jiefeng Li , Congyue Deng , Leonidas Guibas , Dilip Krishnan , Kilian Q Weinberger , Yonglong Tian , Yue Wang

Understanding the mechanisms behind Vision Transformer (ViT), particularly its vulnerability to adversarial perturba tions, is crucial for addressing challenges in its real-world applications. Existing ViT adversarial attackers rely on la…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-03-14 Chenxing Gao , Hang Zhou , Junqing Yu , YuTeng Ye , Jiale Cai , Junle Wang , Wei Yang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as state-of-the-art models for various vision tasks recently. However, their heavy computation costs remain daunting for resource-limited devices. To address this, researchers have dedicated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Ao Wang , Hui Chen , Zijia Lin , Sicheng Zhao , Jungong Han , Guiguang Ding

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…

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown significant promise in computer vision applications. However, their performance in few-shot learning is limited by challenges in refining token-level interactions, struggling with limited training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Mohammed Al-Habib , Zuping Zhang , Abdulrahman Noman

With the advent of large pre-trained transformer models, fine-tuning these models for various downstream tasks is a critical problem. Paucity of training data, the existence of data silos, and stringent privacy constraints exacerbate this…

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In recent years, the scientific community has focused on the development of CAD tools that could improve bone fractures' classification, mostly based on Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). However, the discerning accuracy of fractures'…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Leonardo Tanzi , Andrea Audisio , Giansalvo Cirrincione , Alessandro Aprato , Enrico Vezzetti

Vision transformers (ViT) have been shown to allow for more flexible feature detection and can outperform convolutional neural network (CNN) when pre-trained on sufficient data. Due to their promising feature detection capabilities, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-16 Nghia , Nguyen , Amer Wahed , Andy Quesada , Yasir Ali , Hanadi El Achi , Y. Helen Zhang , Jocelyn Ursua , Alex Banerjee , Sahib Kalra , L. Jeffrey Medeiros , Jie Xu

The extension of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to non-Euclidean geometries has led to multiple frameworks for studying manifolds. Many of those methods have shown design limitations resulting in poor modelling of long-range…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-01 Simon Dahan , Logan Z. J. Williams , Abdulah Fawaz , Daniel Rueckert , Emma C. Robinson

It has been observed that visual classification models often rely mostly on the image background, neglecting the foreground, which hurts their robustness to distribution changes. To alleviate this shortcoming, we propose to monitor the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-03 Hila Chefer , Idan Schwartz , Lior Wolf

Fine-tuning a visual pre-trained model can leverage the semantic information from large-scale pre-training data and mitigate the over-fitting problem on downstream vision tasks with limited training examples. While the problem of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-16 Junyang Wang , Yuanhong Xu , Juhua Hu , Ming Yan , Jitao Sang , Qi Qian

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

Vision Transformers (ViTs) take all the image patches as tokens and construct multi-head self-attention (MHSA) among them. Complete leverage of these image tokens brings redundant computations since not all the tokens are attentive in MHSA.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-15 Youwei Liang , Chongjian Ge , Zhan Tong , Yibing Song , Jue Wang , Pengtao Xie