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While feature-based knowledge distillation has proven highly effective for compressing CNNs, these techniques unexpectedly fail when applied to Vision Transformers (ViTs), often performing worse than simple logit-based distillation. We…

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Large multimodal models (LMMs) "see" images by leveraging the attention mechanism between text and visual tokens in the transformer decoder. Ideally, these models should focus on key visual information relevant to the text token. However,…

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We empirically study the scaling properties of various Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) for text-to-image generation by performing extensive and rigorous ablations, including training scaled DiTs ranging from 0.3B upto 8B parameters on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-18 Hao Li , Shamit Lal , Zhiheng Li , Yusheng Xie , Ying Wang , Yang Zou , Orchid Majumder , R. Manmatha , Zhuowen Tu , Stefano Ermon , Stefano Soatto , Ashwin Swaminathan

Recent studies show that Vision Transformers(ViTs) exhibit strong robustness against various corruptions. Although this property is partly attributed to the self-attention mechanism, there is still a lack of systematic understanding. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-09 Daquan Zhou , Zhiding Yu , Enze Xie , Chaowei Xiao , Anima Anandkumar , Jiashi Feng , Jose M. Alvarez

Diffusion Transformer (DiT), a promising diffusion model for visual generation, demonstrates impressive performance but incurs significant computational overhead. Intriguingly, analysis of pre-trained DiT models reveals that global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yuang Ai , Qihang Fan , Xuefeng Hu , Zhenheng Yang , Ran He , Huaibo Huang

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) achieve remarkable performance within image generation via the transformer architecture. Conventionally, DiTs are constructed by stacking serial isotropic global modeling transformers, which face significant…

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Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) excel at generation, but their global self-attention makes controllable, reference-image-based editing a distinct challenge. Unlike U-Nets, naively injecting local appearance into a DiT can disrupt its holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Shengrong Gu , Ye Wang , Song Wu , Rui Ma , Qian Wang , Lanjun Wang , Zili Yi

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have revolutionized high-fidelity video generation, yet their $\mathcal{O}(L^2)$ attention complexity poses a formidable bottleneck for long-sequence synthesis. While recent sparse-linear attention hybrids aim…

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Transformer is a powerful architecture that achieves superior performance on various sequence learning tasks, including neural machine translation, language understanding, and sequence prediction. At the core of the Transformer is the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-13 Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai , Shaojie Bai , Makoto Yamada , Louis-Philippe Morency , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Transformer-based models are popularly used in natural language processing (NLP). Its core component, self-attention, has aroused widespread interest. To understand the self-attention mechanism, a direct method is to visualize the attention…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Han Shi , Jiahui Gao , Xiaozhe Ren , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang , Zhenguo Li , James T. Kwok

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in various computer vision tasks. However, the high computational complexity hinders ViTs' applicability on devices with limited memory and computing resources. Although…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Xuwei Xu , Sen Wang , Yudong Chen , Jiajun Liu

Transformers have become one of the dominant architectures in deep learning, particularly as a powerful alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in computer vision. However, Transformer training and inference in previous works…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-24 Zizheng Pan , Bohan Zhuang , Haoyu He , Jing Liu , Jianfei Cai

Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) delivers state-of-the-art feed-forward 3D reconstruction, yet its global self-attention layer suffers from a drastic collapse phenomenon when the input sequence exceeds a few hundred frames:…

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Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved comparable or superior performance than Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in computer vision. This empirical breakthrough is even more remarkable since, in contrast to CNNs, ViTs do not embed any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Samy Jelassi , Michael E. Sander , Yuanzhi Li

Diffusion models achieved unprecedented fidelity and diversity for synthesizing image, video, 3D assets, etc. However, subject mixing is an unresolved issue for diffusion-based image synthesis, particularly for synthesizing multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-26 Weimin Qiu , Jieke Wang , Meng Tang

The spreading of attention has been proposed as a mechanism for how humans group features to segment objects. However, such a mechanism has not yet been implemented and tested in naturalistic images. Here, we leverage the feature maps from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Hossein Adeli , Seoyoung Ahn , Nikolaus Kriegeskorte , Gregory Zelinsky

Recent advances in diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in video generation. However, the computational intensity remains a significant challenge for practical applications. While feature caching has been proposed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Xuran Ma , Yexin Liu , Yaofu Liu , Xianfeng Wu , Mingzhe Zheng , Zihao Wang , Ser-Nam Lim , Harry Yang

In visual generation, the quadratic complexity of attention mechanisms results in high memory and computational costs, especially for longer token sequences required in high-resolution image or multi-frame video generation. To address this,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Tianchen Zhao , Ke Hong , Xinhao Yang , Xuefeng Xiao , Huixia Li , Feng Ling , Ruiqi Xie , Siqi Chen , Hongyu Zhu , Yichong Zhang , Yu Wang

Modern vision transformers leverage visually inspired local interaction between pixels through attention computed within window or grid regions, in contrast to the global attention employed in the original ViT. Regional attention restricts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Nabil Ibtehaz , Ning Yan , Masood Mortazavi , Daisuke Kihara

Despite the rapid advancement of Virtual Try-On (VTON) and Try-Off (VTOFF) technologies, existing VTON methods face challenges with fine-grained detail preservation, generalization to complex scenes, complicated pipeline, and efficient…

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