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Vision Transformers (ViTs) deliver state-of-the-art accuracy but their quadratic attention cost and redundant computations severely hinder deployment on latency and resource-constrained platforms. Existing pruning approaches treat either…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-24 Mohammad Helal Uddin , Liam Seymour , Sabur Baidya

Transformers are transforming the landscape of computer vision, especially for recognition tasks. Detection transformers are the first fully end-to-end learning systems for object detection, while vision transformers are the first fully…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Hwanjun Song , Deqing Sun , Sanghyuk Chun , Varun Jampani , Dongyoon Han , Byeongho Heo , Wonjae Kim , Ming-Hsuan Yang

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

Vision transformer (ViT) expands the success of transformer models from sequential data to images. The model decomposes an image into many smaller patches and arranges them into a sequence. Multi-head self-attentions are then applied to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Yiran Li , Junpeng Wang , Xin Dai , Liang Wang , Chin-Chia Michael Yeh , Yan Zheng , Wei Zhang , Kwan-Liu Ma

In this paper, we observe two levels of redundancies when applying vision transformers (ViT) for image recognition. First, fixing the number of tokens through the whole network produces redundant features at the spatial level. Second, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-10 Boyu Chen , Peixia Li , Baopu Li , Chuming Li , Lei Bai , Chen Lin , Ming Sun , Junjie Yan , Wanli Ouyang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) achieve strong performance in visual recognition, yet their decision-making remains difficult to interpret. We propose BiCAM, a bidirectional class activation mapping method that captures both supportive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Qin Su , Tie Luo

Diffusion Denoising Probability Models (DDPM) and Vision Transformer (ViT) have demonstrated significant progress in generative tasks and discriminative tasks, respectively, and thus far these models have largely been developed in their own…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-17 Xiulong Yang , Sheng-Min Shih , Yinlin Fu , Xiaoting Zhao , Shihao Ji

In recent years, vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as powerful and promising techniques for computer vision tasks such as image classification, object detection, and segmentation. Unlike convolutional neural networks (CNNs), which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Shaibal Saha , Lanyu Xu

The aim of this work is to explore the potential of pre-trained vision-language models, e.g. Vision Transformers (ViT), enhanced with advanced data augmentation strategies for the detection of AI-generated images. Our approach leverages a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Shrikant Malviya , Neelanjan Bhowmik , Stamos Katsigiannis

Vision transformers (ViTs) that model an image as a sequence of partitioned patches have shown notable performance in diverse vision tasks. Because partitioning patches eliminates the image structure, to reflect the order of patches, ViTs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Bum Jun Kim , Hyeyeon Choi , Hyeonah Jang , Sang Woo Kim

We here propose a novel hierarchical transformer model that adeptly integrates the feature extraction capabilities of Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) with the advanced representational potential of Vision Transformers (ViTs).…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Xiaoya Tang , Bodong Zhang , Beatrice S. Knudsen , Tolga Tasdizen

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

Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a prominent architecture for various computer vision tasks. In ViT, we divide the input image into patch tokens and process them through a stack of self attention blocks. However, unlike Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-04 Harsh Rangwani , Pradipto Mondal , Mayank Mishra , Ashish Ramayee Asokan , R. Venkatesh Babu

The attention module in vision transformers(ViTs) performs intricate spatial correlations, contributing significantly to accuracy and delay. It is thereby important to modulate the number of attentions according to the input feature…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Abhishek Moitra , Abhiroop Bhattacharjee , Priyadarshini Panda

Transformer-based methods have shown impressive performance in image restoration tasks, such as image super-resolution and denoising. However, we find that these networks can only utilize a limited spatial range of input information through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-04 Xiangyu Chen , Xintao Wang , Wenlong Zhang , Xiangtao Kong , Yu Qiao , Jiantao Zhou , Chao Dong

Built on top of self-attention mechanisms, vision transformers have demonstrated remarkable performance on a variety of vision tasks recently. While achieving excellent performance, they still require relatively intensive computational cost…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Lingchen Meng , Hengduo Li , Bor-Chun Chen , Shiyi Lan , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Ser-Nam Lim

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently garnered considerable attention, emerging as a promising alternative to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) in several vision-related applications. However, their large model sizes and high…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-02 Dayou Du , Gu Gong , Xiaowen Chu

Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) have emerged as a leading architecture for text-to-image synthesis, producing high-quality and photorealistic images. However, the quadratic scaling properties of the attention in DiTs hinder image generation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Philipp Becker , Abhinav Mehrotra , Ruchika Chavhan , Malcolm Chadwick , Luca Morreale , Mehdi Noroozi , Alberto Gil Ramos , Sourav Bhattacharya

Several video understanding tasks, such as natural language temporal video grounding, temporal activity localization, and audio description generation, require "temporally dense" reasoning over frames sampled at high temporal resolution.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-17 Mattia Soldan , Fabian Caba Heilbron , Bernard Ghanem , Josef Sivic , Bryan Russell

We present an efficient approach for Masked Image Modeling (MIM) with hierarchical Vision Transformers (ViTs), allowing the hierarchical ViTs to discard masked patches and operate only on the visible ones. Our approach consists of three key…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Lang Huang , Shan You , Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Toshihiko Yamasaki