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Self-supervised learning on large-scale Vision Transformers (ViTs) as pre-training methods has achieved promising downstream performance. Yet, how much these pre-training paradigms promote lightweight ViTs' performance is considerably less…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Shaoru Wang , Jin Gao , Zeming Li , Xiaoqin Zhang , Weiming Hu

In this paper, we present token labeling -- a new training objective for training high-performance vision transformers (ViTs). Different from the standard training objective of ViTs that computes the classification loss on an additional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-10 Zihang Jiang , Qibin Hou , Li Yuan , Daquan Zhou , Yujun Shi , Xiaojie Jin , Anran Wang , Jiashi Feng

Recently, a considerable number of studies in computer vision involves deep neural architectures called vision transformers. Visual processing in these models incorporates computational models that are claimed to implement attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-06 Paria Mehrani , John K. Tsotsos

Vision Transformers have shown great promise recently for many vision tasks due to the insightful architecture design and attention mechanism. By revisiting the self-attention responses in Transformers, we empirically observe two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Xu Ma , Huan Wang , Can Qin , Kunpeng Li , Xingchen Zhao , Jie Fu , Yun Fu

Vision transformers (ViTs) achieve remarkable performance on large datasets, but tend to perform worse than convolutional neural networks (CNNs) when trained from scratch on smaller datasets, possibly due to a lack of local inductive bias…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Ibrahim Batuhan Akkaya , Senthilkumar S. Kathiresan , Elahe Arani , Bahram Zonooz

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) frequently "cheat" by exploiting superficial correlations, raising concerns about whether they make predictions for the right reasons. Inspired by cognitive science, which highlights the role of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Ryan L. Yang , Dipkamal Bhusal , Nidhi Rastogi

Self-supervised learning methods are gaining increasing traction in computer vision due to their recent success in reducing the gap with supervised learning. In natural language processing (NLP) self-supervised learning and transformers are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-29 Sara Atito , Muhammad Awais , Josef Kittler

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently received explosive popularity, but their enormous model sizes and training costs remain daunting. Conventional post-training pruning often incurs higher training budgets. In contrast, this paper aims…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-26 Tianlong Chen , Yu Cheng , Zhe Gan , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang , Zhangyang Wang

Deep learning models generally display catastrophic forgetting when learning new data continuously. Many incremental learning approaches address this problem by reusing data from previous tasks while learning new tasks. However, the direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Young Jo Choi , Min Kyoon Yoo , Yu Rang Park

Learning representations with self-supervision for convolutional networks (CNN) has been validated to be effective for vision tasks. As an alternative to CNN, vision transformers (ViT) have strong representation ability with spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-19 Zhong-Yu Li , Shanghua Gao , Ming-Ming Cheng

Transformers have been successfully used in various fields and are becoming the standard tools in computer vision. However, self-attention, a core component of transformers, has a quadratic complexity problem, which limits the use of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-02 Jiuk Hong , Chaehyeon Lee , Soyoun Bang , Heechul Jung

Since their inception, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a compelling alternative to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) across a wide spectrum of tasks. ViTs exhibit notable characteristics, including global attention, resilience…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Hanan Gani , Nada Saadi , Noor Hussein , Karthik Nandakumar

Skip connection, is a widely-used technique to improve the performance and the convergence of deep neural networks, which is believed to relieve the difficulty in optimization due to non-linearity by propagating a linear component through…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-05-18 Fenglin Liu , Xuancheng Ren , Zhiyuan Zhang , Xu Sun , Yuexian Zou

Token filtering to reduce irrelevant tokens prior to self-attention is a straightforward way to enable efficient vision Transformer. This is the first work to view token filtering from a feature selection perspective, where we weigh the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Hong Wang , Su Yang , Xiaoke Huang , Weishan Zhang

Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully deployed in a variety of computer vision tasks, but they are still vulnerable to adversarial samples. Transfer-based attacks use a local model to generate adversarial samples and directly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-06 Jianping Zhang , Yizhan Huang , Weibin Wu , Michael R. Lyu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in various vision tasks. However, they tend to underperform on smaller datasets due to their inherent lack of inductive biases. Current approaches address this limitation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Alan Luo , Kaiwen Yuan

Transformer has been very successful in various computer vision tasks and understanding the working mechanism of transformer is important. As touchstones, weakly-supervised semantic segmentation (WSSS) and class activation map (CAM) are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Lianghui Zhu , Yingyue Li , Jiemin Fang , Yan Liu , Hao Xin , Wenyu Liu , Xinggang Wang

Recently, vision Transformers (ViTs) are developing rapidly and starting to challenge the domination of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in the realm of computer vision (CV). With the general-purpose Transformer architecture replacing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Haofei Zhang , Jiarui Duan , Mengqi Xue , Jie Song , Li Sun , Mingli Song

Convolutional architectures have proven extremely successful for vision tasks. Their hard inductive biases enable sample-efficient learning, but come at the cost of a potentially lower performance ceiling. Vision Transformers (ViTs) rely on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Stéphane d'Ascoli , Hugo Touvron , Matthew Leavitt , Ari Morcos , Giulio Biroli , Levent Sagun

The residual network is now one of the most effective structures in deep learning, which utilizes the skip connections to ``guarantee" the performance will not get worse. However, the non-convexity of the neural network makes it unclear…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Lifu Wang , Bo Shen , Ning Zhao , Zhiyuan Zhang