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The advent of Vision Transformers (ViTs) marks a substantial paradigm shift in the realm of computer vision. ViTs capture the global information of images through self-attention modules, which perform dot product computations among…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Shuoxi Zhang , Hanpeng Liu , Stephen Lin , Kun He

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

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

Recent advances on Vision Transformer (ViT) and its improved variants have shown that self-attention-based networks surpass traditional Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) in most vision tasks. However, existing ViTs focus on the standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Xiaofeng Mao , Gege Qi , Yuefeng Chen , Xiaodan Li , Ranjie Duan , Shaokai Ye , Yuan He , Hui Xue

Vision Transformer (ViT) architectures are becoming increasingly popular and widely employed to tackle computer vision applications. Their main feature is the capacity to extract global information through the self-attention mechanism,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Lorenzo Papa , Paolo Russo , Irene Amerini , Luping Zhou

Self-attention-based vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a highly competitive architecture in computer vision. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), ViTs are capable of global information sharing. With the development of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Zhenzhen Chu , Jiayu Chen , Cen Chen , Chengyu Wang , Ziheng Wu , Jun Huang , Weining Qian

Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved excellent performance and demonstrated its promising potential in various computer vision tasks. The wide deployment of ViT in real-world tasks requires a thorough understanding of the societal impact…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Bowei Tian , Ruijie Du , Yanning Shen

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a foundational model in computer vision, excelling in generalization and adaptation to downstream tasks. However, deploying ViTs to support diverse resource constraints typically requires…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Chen Zhu , Wangbo Zhao , Huiwen Zhang , Samir Khaki , Yuhao Zhou , Weidong Tang , Shuo Wang , Zhihang Yuan , Yuzhang Shang , Xiaojiang Peng , Kai Wang , Dawei Yang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have shown impressive performance but still require a high computation cost as compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs), one reason is that ViTs' attention measures global similarities and thus has a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-26 Haoran You , Yunyang Xiong , Xiaoliang Dai , Bichen Wu , Peizhao Zhang , Haoqi Fan , Peter Vajda , Yingyan Celine Lin

We introduce A-ViT, a method that adaptively adjusts the inference cost of vision transformer (ViT) for images of different complexity. A-ViT achieves this by automatically reducing the number of tokens in vision transformers that are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-10 Hongxu Yin , Arash Vahdat , Jose Alvarez , Arun Mallya , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov

Due to its deficiency in prior knowledge (inductive bias), Vision Transformer (ViT) requires pre-training on large-scale datasets to perform well. Moreover, the growing layers and parameters in ViT models impede their applicability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-17 Chenhao Xu , Chang-Tsun Li , Chee Peng Lim , Douglas Creighton

The ubiquitous and demonstrably suboptimal choice of resizing images to a fixed resolution before processing them with computer vision models has not yet been successfully challenged. However, models such as the Vision Transformer (ViT)…

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) for computer vision sometimes struggle with understanding images in a global context, as they mainly focus on local patterns. On the other hand, Vision Transformers (ViTs), inspired by models originally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Dimitrios N. Vlachogiannis , Dimitrios A. Koutsomitropoulos

Vision transformer (ViT) models exhibit substandard optimizability. In particular, they are sensitive to the choice of optimizer (AdamW vs. SGD), optimizer hyperparameters, and training schedule length. In comparison, modern convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-27 Tete Xiao , Mannat Singh , Eric Mintun , Trevor Darrell , Piotr Dollár , Ross Girshick

We design a family of image classification architectures that optimize the trade-off between accuracy and efficiency in a high-speed regime. Our work exploits recent findings in attention-based architectures, which are competitive on highly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-07 Ben Graham , Alaaeldin El-Nouby , Hugo Touvron , Pierre Stock , Armand Joulin , Hervé Jégou , Matthijs Douze

Vision transformers have become one of the most important models for computer vision tasks. Although they outperform prior works, they require heavy computational resources on a scale that is quadratic to the number of tokens, $N$. This is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Jeonggeun Song , Heung-Chang Lee

In this paper, we ask whether Vision Transformers (ViTs) can serve as an underlying architecture for improving the adversarial robustness of machine learning models against evasion attacks. While earlier works have focused on improving…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-03 Edoardo Debenedetti , Vikash Sehwag , Prateek Mittal

Vision Transformers (ViT) have made many breakthroughs in computer vision tasks. However, considerable redundancy arises in the spatial dimension of an input image, leading to massive computational costs. Therefore, We propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Mengzhao Chen , Mingbao Lin , Ke Li , Yunhang Shen , Yongjian Wu , Fei Chao , Rongrong Ji

Vision transformers have recently made a breakthrough in computer vision showing excellent performance in terms of precision for numerous applications. However, their computational cost is very high compared to alternative approaches such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Martial Guidez , Stefan Duffner , Christophe Garcia

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