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Deploying Vision Transformers on edge devices is challenging due to their high computational complexity, while full offloading to cloud resources presents significant latency overheads. We propose a novel collaborative inference framework,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Hao Liu , Suhaib A. Fahmy

Large-scale fine-grained image retrieval (FGIR) aims to retrieve images belonging to the same subcategory as a given query by capturing subtle differences in a large-scale setting. Recently, Vision Transformers (ViT) have been employed in…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-04-24 Xin Jiang , Hao Tang , Yonghua Pan , Zechao Li

Due to its significant capability of modeling long-range dependencies, vision transformer (ViT) has achieved promising success in both holistic and occluded person re-identification (Re-ID) tasks. However, the inherent problems of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Junzhu Mao , Yazhou Yao , Zeren Sun , Xingguo Huang , Fumin Shen , Heng-Tao Shen

Vision Transformers (ViTs) achieve state-of-the-art performance in semantic segmentation but are hindered by high computational and memory costs. To address this, we propose STEP (SuperToken and Early-Pruning), a hybrid token-reduction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Michal Szczepanski , Martyna Poreba , Karim Haroun

Model binarization can significantly compress model size, reduce energy consumption, and accelerate inference through efficient bit-wise operations. Although binarizing convolutional neural networks have been extensively studied, there is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-06 Yefei He , Zhenyu Lou , Luoming Zhang , Jing Liu , Weijia Wu , Hong Zhou , Bohan Zhuang

The vision transformer is a model that breaks down each image into a sequence of tokens with a fixed length and processes them similarly to words in natural language processing. Although increasing the number of tokens typically results in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Qiqi Zhou , Yichen Zhu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) with self-attention modules have recently achieved great empirical success in many vision tasks. Due to non-convex interactions across layers, however, theoretical learning and generalization analysis is mostly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-15 Hongkang Li , Meng Wang , Sijia Liu , Pin-yu Chen

The vision transformer splits each image into a sequence of tokens with fixed length and processes the tokens in the same way as words in natural language processing. More tokens normally lead to better performance but considerably…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Yichen Zhu , Yuqin Zhu , Jie Du , Yi Wang , Zhicai Ou , Feifei Feng , Jian Tang

Vision Transformers (ViT) have shown their competitive advantages performance-wise compared to convolutional neural networks (CNNs) though they often come with high computational costs. To this end, previous methods explore different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-27 Cong Wei , Brendan Duke , Ruowei Jiang , Parham Aarabi , Graham W. Taylor , Florian Shkurti

This work targets automated designing and scaling of Vision Transformers (ViTs). The motivation comes from two pain spots: 1) the lack of efficient and principled methods for designing and scaling ViTs; 2) the tremendous computational cost…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-01 Wuyang Chen , Wei Huang , Xianzhi Du , Xiaodan Song , Zhangyang Wang , Denny Zhou

Empowered by transformer-based models, visual tracking has advanced significantly. However, the slow speed of current trackers limits their applicability on devices with constrained computational resources. To address this challenge, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xiangyang Yang , Dan Zeng , Xucheng Wang , You Wu , Hengzhou Ye , Qijun Zhao , Shuiwang Li

Transformer-based models have driven significant advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), yet their computational costs surge drastically when scaling resolution, training data, and model parameters. A key bottleneck stems…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-04 Weili Zeng , Ziyuan Huang , Kaixiang Ji , Yichao Yan

The recent advances in image transformers have shown impressive results and have largely closed the gap between traditional CNN architectures. The standard procedure is to train on large datasets like ImageNet-21k and then finetune on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-24 Ethan Huynh

Transformers have recently emerged as a powerful tool for learning visual representations. In this paper, we identify and characterize artifacts in feature maps of both supervised and self-supervised ViT networks. The artifacts correspond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-15 Timothée Darcet , Maxime Oquab , Julien Mairal , Piotr Bojanowski

Variate tokenization, which independently embeds each variate as separate tokens, has achieved remarkable improvements in multivariate time series forecasting. However, employing self-attention with variate tokens incurs a quadratic…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Junhyeok Kang , Yooju Shin , Jae-Gil Lee

The recently proposed Visual image Transformers (ViT) with pure attention have achieved promising performance on image recognition tasks, such as image classification. However, the routine of the current ViT model is to maintain a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-19 Zizheng Pan , Bohan Zhuang , Jing Liu , Haoyu He , Jianfei Cai

Vision transformer has emerged as a new paradigm in computer vision, showing excellent performance while accompanied by expensive computational cost. Image token pruning is one of the main approaches for ViT compression, due to the facts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Xiangcheng Liu , Tianyi Wu , Guodong Guo

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) suffer from high computational costs due to excessive visual tokens, particularly in high-resolution and video-based scenarios. Existing token reduction methods typically focus on isolated pipeline…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Hanxun Yu , Wentong Li , Xuan Qu , Song Wang , Junbo Chen , Jianke Zhu

Vision transformers (ViTs) have emerged as a prevalent architecture for vision tasks owing to their impressive performance. However, when it comes to handling long token sequences, especially in dense prediction tasks that require…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Jin Li , Yaoming Wang , Xiaopeng Zhang , Bowen Shi , Dongsheng Jiang , Chenglin Li , Wenrui Dai , Hongkai Xiong , Qi Tian

The recently proposed SparseFormer architecture provides an alternative approach to visual understanding by utilizing a significantly lower number of visual tokens via adjusting RoIs, greatly reducing computational costs while still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-05 Ziteng Gao , Zhan Tong , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Joya Chen , Mike Zheng Shou