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The recent wave of AI-generated content has witnessed the great development and success of Text-to-Image (T2I) technologies. By contrast, Text-to-Video (T2V) still falls short of expectations though attracting increasing interests. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-21 Zhen Xing , Qi Dai , Han Hu , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

In this paper, we present a new approach for model acceleration by exploiting spatial sparsity in visual data. We observe that the final prediction in vision Transformers is only based on a subset of the most informative tokens, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Yongming Rao , Zuyan Liu , Wenliang Zhao , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Transformer architecture has been very successful long runner in the field of Deep Learning (DL) and Large Language Models (LLM) because of its powerful attention-based learning and parallel-natured architecture. As the models grow gigantic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Phani Kumar , Nyshadham , Jyothendra Varma , Polisetty V R K , Aditya Rathore

Recently Transformers have provided state-of-the-art performance in sparse matching, crucial to realize high-performance 3D vision applications. Yet, these Transformers lack efficiency due to the quadratic computational complexity of their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-25 Suwichaya Suwanwimolkul , Satoshi Komorita

This paper investigates the capability of plain Vision Transformers (ViTs) for semantic segmentation using the encoder-decoder framework and introduces \textbf{SegViTv2}. In this study, we introduce a novel Attention-to-Mask (\atm) module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Bowen Zhang , Liyang Liu , Minh Hieu Phan , Zhi Tian , Chunhua Shen , Yifan Liu

Segment Anything Model 2 (SAM2), a vision foundation model has significantly advanced in prompt-driven video object segmentation, yet their practical deployment remains limited by the high computational and memory cost of processing dense…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 Avilasha Mandal , Chaoning Zhang , Fachrina Dewi Puspitasari , Xudong Wang , Jiaquan Zhang , Caiyan Qin , Guoqing Wang , Yang Yang , Heng Tao Shen

The Segment Anything Model (SAM) achieves strong open-vocabulary segmentation, but its ViT-based image encoders dominate inference latency and memory. Existing activation compression methods, such as token merging, reduce the token length…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Hoai-Chau Tran , Chi H. Nguyen , Duy M. H. Nguyen , Mathias Niepert , Fan Lai , Khoa D. Doan

Due to the auto-regressive nature of current video large language models (Video-LLMs), the inference latency increases as the input sequence length grows, posing challenges for the efficient processing of video sequences that are usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xuan Zhang , Cunxiao Du , Sicheng Yu , Jiawei Wu , Fengzhuo Zhang , Wei Gao , Qian Liu

With the rise of short video content, efficient video summarization techniques for extracting key information have become crucial. However, existing methods struggle to capture the global temporal dependencies and maintain the semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-22 Wenrui Li , Wei Han , Liang-Jian Deng , Ruiqin Xiong , Xiaopeng Fan

Fine-grained and efficient controllability on video diffusion transformers has raised increasing desires for the applicability. Recently, In-context Conditioning emerged as a powerful paradigm for unified conditional video generation, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Xuanhua He , Quande Liu , Zixuan Ye , Weicai Ye , Qiulin Wang , Xintao Wang , Qifeng Chen , Pengfei Wan , Di Zhang , Kun Gai

Sparse attention offers a promising strategy to extend long-context capabilities in Transformer LLMs, yet its efficiency-accuracy trade-offs remain unclear due to the lack of comprehensive evaluation. We address this gap with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Piotr Nawrot , Robert Li , Renjie Huang , Sebastian Ruder , Kelly Marchisio , Edoardo M. Ponti

Streaming video generation (SVG) distills a pretrained bidirectional video diffusion model into an autoregressive model equipped with sliding window attention (SWA). However, SWA inevitably loses distant history during long video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Ruibin Li , Tao Yang , Fangzhou Ai , Tianhe Wu , Shilei Wen , Bingyue Peng , Lei Zhang

Semantic scene completion (SSC) aims to predict the semantic occupancy of each voxel in the entire 3D scene from limited observations, which is an emerging and critical task for autonomous driving. Recently, many studies have turned to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jianbiao Mei , Yu Yang , Mengmeng Wang , Junyu Zhu , Jongwon Ra , Yukai Ma , Laijian Li , Yong Liu

Vision Transformer (ViT)-based sparse multi-view 3D object detectors have achieved remarkable accuracy but still suffer from high inference latency due to heavy token processing. To accelerate these models, token compression has been widely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Mingqian Ji , Shanshan Zhang , Jian Yang

Attention scales quadratically with sequence length, fundamentally limiting long-context inference. Existing block-granularity sparsification can reduce latency, but coarse blocks impose an intrinsic sparsity ceiling, making further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Yu Zhang , Songwei Liu , Chenqian Yan , Sheng Lin , Beichen Ning , Fangmin Chen , Xing Wang

The global self-attention mechanism in diffusion transformers involves redundant computation due to the sparse and redundant nature of visual information, and the attention map of tokens within a spatial window shows significant similarity.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-07 Jing Wang , Ao Ma , Jiasong Feng , Dawei Leng , Yuhui Yin , Xiaodan Liang

Video Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) generate high-quality videos but demand substantial compute due to wide blocks, deep architectures, and iterative sampling. Recent methods reduce cost by compressing width, depth, or sampling steps, but…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Yutong Wang , Yunke Wang , Tianfan Xue , Yu Qiao , Yaohui Wang , Xinyuan Chen , Chang Xu

Visual autoregressive modeling, based on the next-scale prediction paradigm, exhibits notable advantages in image quality and model scalability over traditional autoregressive and diffusion models. It generates images by progressively…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Zhuokun Chen , Jugang Fan , Zhuowei Yu , Bohan Zhuang , Mingkui Tan

Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) has advanced 3D vision, yet its global attention layers suffer from quadratic computational costs that hinder scalability. Several sparsification-based acceleration techniques have been proposed…

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