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The Vision Transformer (ViT) excels in accuracy when handling high-resolution images, yet it confronts the challenge of significant spatial redundancy, leading to increased computational and memory requirements. To address this, we present…

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Transformer models have excelled in natural language tasks, prompting the vision community to explore their implementation in computer vision problems. However, these models are still influenced by adversarial examples. In this paper, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Jialin Wu , Kaikai Pan , Yanjiao Chen , Jiangyi Deng , Shengyuan Pang , Wenyuan Xu

Vision transformer (ViT) models, when coupled with interpretation models, are regarded as secure and challenging to deceive, making them well-suited for security-critical domains such as medical applications, autonomous vehicles, drones,…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Eldor Abdukhamidov , Mohammed Abuhamad , Simon S. Woo , Hyoungshick Kim , Tamer Abuhmed

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 transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated great potential in various visual tasks, but suffer from expensive computational and memory cost problems when deployed on resource-constrained devices. In this paper, we introduce a ternary…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-24 Sheng Xu , Yanjing Li , Teli Ma , Bohan Zeng , Baochang Zhang , Peng Gao , Jinhu Lv

We present Reversible Vision Transformers, a memory efficient architecture design for visual recognition. By decoupling the GPU memory requirement from the depth of the model, Reversible Vision Transformers enable scaling up architectures…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Karttikeya Mangalam , Haoqi Fan , Yanghao Li , Chao-Yuan Wu , Bo Xiong , Christoph Feichtenhofer , Jitendra Malik

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are increasingly used in computer vision due to their high performance, but their vulnerability to adversarial attacks is a concern. Existing methods lack a solid theoretical basis, focusing mainly on empirical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Xixu Hu , Runkai Zheng , Jindong Wang , Cheuk Hang Leung , Qi Wu , Xing Xie

Neural architectures based on attention such as vision transformers are revolutionizing image recognition. Their main benefit is that attention allows reasoning about all parts of a scene jointly. In this paper, we show how the global…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-28 Giulio Lovisotto , Nicole Finnie , Mauricio Munoz , Chaithanya Kumar Mummadi , Jan Hendrik Metzen

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently brought a new wave of research in the field of computer vision. These models have performed particularly well in image classification and segmentation. Research on semantic and instance segmentation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Ashim Dahal , Saydul Akbar Murad , Nick Rahimi

This paper studies the efficiency problem for visual transformers by excavating redundant calculation in given networks. The recent transformer architecture has demonstrated its effectiveness for achieving excellent performance on a series…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Yehui Tang , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang , Chang Xu , Jianyuan Guo , Chao Xu , Dacheng Tao

Vision Transformer (ViT) has gained increasing attention in the computer vision community in recent years. However, the core component of ViT, Self-Attention, lacks explicit spatial priors and bears a quadratic computational complexity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Qihang Fan , Huaibo Huang , Mingrui Chen , Hongmin Liu , Ran He

Pairwise dot product-based attention allows Transformers to exchange information between tokens in an input-dependent way, and is key to their success across diverse applications in language and vision. However, a typical Transformer model…

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have gained significant popularity in recent years and have proliferated into many applications. However, their behavior under different learning paradigms is not well explored. We compare ViTs trained through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-07 Matthew Walmer , Saksham Suri , Kamal Gupta , Abhinav Shrivastava

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown competitive accuracy in image classification tasks compared with CNNs. Yet, they generally require much more data for model pre-training. Most of recent works thus are dedicated to designing more…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-08 Daquan Zhou , Yujun Shi , Bingyi Kang , Weihao Yu , Zihang Jiang , Yuan Li , Xiaojie Jin , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have outperformed traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) across various computer vision tasks. However, akin to CNN, ViTs are vulnerable to backdoor attacks, where the adversary embeds the backdoor into…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Ji Guo , Hongwei Li , Wenbo Jiang , Guoming Lu

Though vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of settings, they exhibit surprising failures when performing tasks involving visual relations. This begs the question: how do ViTs attempt to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Michael A. Lepori , Alexa R. Tartaglini , Wai Keen Vong , Thomas Serre , Brenden M. Lake , Ellie Pavlick

Diffusion models have gained significant attention for high-fidelity image generation. Our work investigates the potential of exploiting diffusion models for adversarial robustness in image classification and object detection. Adversarial…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-11-05 Mika Yagoda , Shady Abu-Hussein , Raja Giryes

We present in this paper a new architecture, named Convolutional vision Transformer (CvT), that improves Vision Transformer (ViT) in performance and efficiency by introducing convolutions into ViT to yield the best of both designs. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-30 Haiping Wu , Bin Xiao , Noel Codella , Mengchen Liu , Xiyang Dai , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang

Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) aims to transfer the knowledge learnt from a labeled source domain to an unlabeled target domain. Previous work is mainly built upon convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to learn domain-invariant…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Jinyu Yang , Jingjing Liu , Ning Xu , Junzhou Huang

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are well known to be vulnerable to adversarial examples (AEs). In previous studies, the use of models encrypted with a secret key was demonstrated to be robust against white-box attacks, but not against black-box…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Ryota Iijima , Sayaka Shiota , Hitoshi Kiya