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Although Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved significant success, their intensive computations and substantial memory overheads challenge their deployment on edge devices. To address this, efficient ViTs have emerged, typically…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Yanbiao Liang , Huihong Shi , Zhongfeng Wang

Recently, vision transformers (ViTs) have superseded convolutional neural networks in numerous applications, including classification, detection, and segmentation. However, the high computational requirements of ViTs hinder their widespread…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-20 Jemin Lee , Yongin Kwon , Sihyeong Park , Misun Yu , Jeman Park , Hwanjun Song

The Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture has become widely recognized in computer vision, leveraging its self-attention mechanism to achieve remarkable success across various tasks. Despite its strengths, ViT's optimization remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Haoyu Yun , Hamid Krim

Recent advances in vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved great performance in visual recognition tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) exploit spatial inductive bias to learn visual representations, but these networks are spatially…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Youpeng Zhao , Huadong Tang , Yingying Jiang , Yong A , Qiang Wu

As Vision Transformers (ViTs) increasingly set new benchmarks in computer vision, their practical deployment on inference engines is often hindered by their significant memory bandwidth and (on-chip) memory footprint requirements. This…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-12 Seyedarmin Azizi , Mahdi Nazemi , Massoud Pedram

Deploying high-performance vision transformer (ViT) models on ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) devices to provide high-quality vision services will revolutionize the way we live, work, and interact with the world. Due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Zhichao Lu , Chuntao Ding , Felix Juefei-Xu , Vishnu Naresh Boddeti , Shangguang Wang , Yun Yang

While vision transformers (ViTs) have continuously achieved new milestones in the field of computer vision, their sophisticated network architectures with high computation and memory costs have impeded their deployment on resource-limited…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2023-02-28 Peiyan Dong , Mengshu Sun , Alec Lu , Yanyue Xie , Kenneth Liu , Zhenglun Kong , Xin Meng , Zhengang Li , Xue Lin , Zhenman Fang , Yanzhi Wang

Hybrid models that combine convolutional and transformer blocks offer strong performance in computer vision (CV) tasks but are resource-intensive for edge deployment. Although post-training quantization (PTQ) can help reduce resource…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Shaibal Saha , Lanyu Xu

Transformer-based models, such as BERT and ViT, have achieved state-of-the-art results across different natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision (CV) tasks. However, these models are extremely memory intensive during their…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Arash Ardakani , Altan Haan , Shangyin Tan , Doru Thom Popovici , Alvin Cheung , Costin Iancu , Koushik Sen

Vision Transformer (ViT) demonstrates that Transformer for natural language processing can be applied to computer vision tasks and result in comparable performance to convolutional neural networks (CNN), which have been studied and adopted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-03 Yi-Lun Liao , Sertac Karaman , Vivienne Sze

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable success on large-scale datasets, but their performance on smaller datasets often falls short of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This paper explores the design and optimization of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Gent Wu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable performance in various image classification tasks by leveraging the attention mechanism to process image patches as tokens. However, the high computational and memory demands of ViTs pose…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-27 Zhengqing Yuan , Rong Zhou , Hongyi Wang , Lifang He , Yanfang Ye , Lichao Sun

Recently, there has been a trend of shifting the execution of deep learning inference tasks toward the edge of the network, closer to the user, to reduce latency and preserve data privacy. At the same time, growing interest is being devoted…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Seyyidahmed Lahmer , Aria Khoshsirat , Michele Rossi , Andrea Zanella

We introduce JetViT, a novel family of hybrid-architecture Vision Transformer (ViT) models that match the accuracy of state-of-the-art full-attention vision foundation models while achieving substantially higher inference efficiency on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-27 Dongyun Zou , Zhuoyang Zhang , Junyu Chen , Wenkun He , Qinhe Peng , Hanrong Ye , Yao Lu , Hongxu Yin , Yu Wang , Song Han , Han Cai

This paper presents SleepViT, a custom accelerator ASIC for real-time, low-power sleep stage classification in wearable devices. At the core of SleepViT is a lightweight vision transformer model specifically optimized for…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-08 Tristan Robitaille , Xilin Liu

Attention-based vision models, such as Vision Transformer (ViT) and its variants, have shown promising performance in various computer vision tasks. However, these emerging architectures suffer from large model sizes and high computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Jinqi Xiao , Miao Yin , Yu Gong , Xiao Zang , Jian Ren , Bo Yuan

Recent advances of Transformers have brought new trust to computer vision tasks. However, on small dataset, Transformers is hard to train and has lower performance than convolutional neural networks. We make vision transformers as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Bin Chen , Ran Wang , Di Ming , Xin Feng

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have revolutionized computer vision by leveraging self-attention to model long-range dependencies. However, ViTs face challenges such as high computational costs due to the quadratic scaling of self-attention and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Zhoujie Qian

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable potential in image processing tasks by utilizing self-attention mechanisms to capture global relationships within data. However, their scalability is hindered by significant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Huy Trinh , Rebecca Ma , Zeqi Yu , Tahsin Reza

Vision transformers (ViTs) have found only limited practical use in processing images, in spite of their state-of-the-art accuracy on certain benchmarks. The reason for their limited use include their need for larger training datasets and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-26 Pranav Jeevan , Amit sethi