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Vision Transformer (ViT) has recently gained significant attention in solving computer vision (CV) problems due to its capability of extracting informative features and modeling long-range dependencies through the attention mechanism.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-12 Yao Qiang , Chengyin Li , Prashant Khanduri , Dongxiao Zhu

The emergence of vision transformers (ViTs) in image classification has shifted the methodologies for visual representation learning. In particular, ViTs learn visual representation at full receptive field per layer across all the image…

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Vision transformers (ViTs) have been successfully applied in image classification tasks recently. In this paper, we show that, unlike convolution neural networks (CNNs)that can be improved by stacking more convolutional layers, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Daquan Zhou , Bingyi Kang , Xiaojie Jin , Linjie Yang , Xiaochen Lian , Zihang Jiang , Qibin Hou , Jiashi Feng

How do vision transformers (ViTs) represent and process the world? This paper addresses this long-standing question through the first systematic analysis of 6.6K features across all layers, extracted via sparse autoencoders, and by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Jinyeong Kim , Junhyeok Kim , Yumin Shim , Joohyeok Kim , Sunyoung Jung , Seong Jae Hwang

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have revolutionized computer vision, yet their self-attention mechanism lacks explicit spatial inductive biases, leading to suboptimal performance on spatially-structured tasks. Existing approaches introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Yuxin Mao , Zhen Qin , Jinxing Zhou , Bin Fan , Jing Zhang , Yiran Zhong , Yuchao Dai

We propose an adaptation to the training of Vision Transformers (ViTs) that allows for an explicit modeling of objects during the attention computation. This is achieved by adding a new branch to selected attention layers that computes an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Vivek Trivedy , Amani Almalki , Longin Jan Latecki

Transformers have become a default architecture in computer vision, but understanding what drives their predictions remains a challenging problem. Current explanation approaches rely on attention values or input gradients, but these provide…

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The Vision Transformer (ViT) demonstrates exceptional performance in various computer vision tasks. Attention is crucial for ViT to capture complex wide-ranging relationships among image patches, allowing the model to weigh the importance…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-01-22 Tomohiro Shiraishi , Daiki Miwa , Teruyuki Katsuoka , Vo Nguyen Le Duy , Kouichi Taji , Ichiro Takeuchi

Vision transformers (ViT) have demonstrated impressive performance across various machine vision problems. These models are based on multi-head self-attention mechanisms that can flexibly attend to a sequence of image patches to encode…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-29 Muzammal Naseer , Kanchana Ranasinghe , Salman Khan , Munawar Hayat , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Ming-Hsuan Yang

Recent state-of-the-art performances of Vision Transformers (ViT) in computer vision tasks demonstrate that a general-purpose architecture, which implements long-range self-attention, could replace the local feature learning operations of…

Recently vision transformer models have become prominent models for a range of vision tasks. These models, however, are usually opaque with weak feature interpretability. Moreover, there is no method currently built for an intrinsically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Lu Yu , Wei Xiang , Juan Fang , Yi-Ping Phoebe Chen , Lianhua Chi

Vision Transformer (ViT) has become a leading tool in various computer vision tasks, owing to its unique self-attention mechanism that learns visual representations explicitly through cross-patch information interactions. Despite having…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Jie Ma , Yalong Bai , Bineng Zhong , Wei Zhang , Ting Yao , Tao Mei

Understanding model decisions is crucial in medical imaging, where interpretability directly impacts clinical trust and adoption. Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated state-of-the-art performance in diagnostic imaging; however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Leili Barekatain , Ben Glocker

Transformers have shown superior performance on various vision tasks. Their large receptive field endows Transformer models with higher representation power than their CNN counterparts. Nevertheless, simply enlarging the receptive field…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Zhuofan Xia , Xuran Pan , Shiji Song , Li Erran Li , Gao Huang

Explainability is a highly demanded requirement for applications in high-risk areas such as medicine. Vision Transformers have mainly been limited to attention extraction to provide insight into the model's reasoning. Our approach combines…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Luisa Gallée , Catharina Silvia Lisson , Meinrad Beer , Michael Götz

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are built on the assumption of treating image patches as ``visual tokens" and learn patch-to-patch attention. The patch embedding based tokenizer has a semantic gap with respect to its counterpart, the textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Ryan Grainger , Thomas Paniagua , Xi Song , Naresh Cuntoor , Mun Wai Lee , Tianfu Wu

Biomedical image classification requires capturing of bio-informatics based on specific feature distribution. In most of such applications, there are mainly challenges due to limited availability of samples for diseased cases and imbalanced…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Arun K. Sharma , Nishchal K. Verma

Attention mechanism has gained huge popularity due to its effectiveness in achieving high accuracy in different domains. But attention is opportunistic and is not justified by the content or usability of the content. Transformer like…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-26 Chiranjib Sur

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are becoming more popular and dominating technique for various vision tasks, compare to Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). As a demanding technique in computer vision, ViTs have been successfully solved various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-18 Khawar Islam

Transformers have been widely used in numerous vision problems especially for visual recognition and detection. Detection transformers are the first fully end-to-end learning systems for object detection, while vision transformers are the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Hwanjun Song , Deqing Sun , Sanghyuk Chun , Varun Jampani , Dongyoon Han , Byeongho Heo , Wonjae Kim , Ming-Hsuan Yang