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Latent actions serve as an intermediate representation that enables consistent modeling of vision-language-action (VLA) models across heterogeneous datasets. However, approaches to supervising VLAs with latent actions are fragmented and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Yihan Lin , Haoyang Li , Yang Li , Haitao Shen , Yihan Zhao , Chao Shao , Jing Zhang

Vision Transformers rely on positional embeddings and class tokens encoding fixed spatial priors. While effective for natural images, these priors may be suboptimal when spatial layout is weakly informative, a frequent condition in medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Athanasios Angelakis

Visual Story-Telling is the process of forming a multi-sentence story from a set of images. Appropriately including visual variation and contextual information captured inside the input images is one of the most challenging aspects of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-17 Zainy M. Malakan , Ghulam Mubashar Hassan , Ajmal Mian

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

Mechanistic interpretability seeks to uncover how internal components of neural networks give rise to predictions. A persistent challenge, however, is disentangling two often conflated notions: decodability--the recoverability of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Lianghuan Huang , Yingshan Chang

Vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive results on various computer vision tasks in the last several years. In this work, we study the capability of frozen ViTs, pretrained only on visual data, to generalize to audio-visual data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-06 Yan-Bo Lin , Yi-Lin Sung , Jie Lei , Mohit Bansal , Gedas Bertasius

We propose global context vision transformer (GC ViT), a novel architecture that enhances parameter and compute utilization for computer vision. Our method leverages global context self-attention modules, joint with standard local…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-07 Ali Hatamizadeh , Hongxu Yin , Greg Heinrich , Jan Kautz , Pavlo Molchanov

Mechanistic interpretability improves the safety, reliability, and robustness of large AI models. This study examined individual attention heads in vision transformers (ViTs) fine tuned on distorted 2D spectrogram images containing non…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Nooshin Bahador

Vision Transformers (ViTs) are built by stacking independently parameterized blocks, but it remains unclear how much of this depth requires layer specific transformations and how much can be realized through recurrent computation. We study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Michal Byra , Pawel Olszowiec , Grzegorz Stefanski , Grzegorz Gruszczynski , Alberto Presta

With Vision Transformers (ViTs) making great advances in a variety of computer vision tasks, recent literature have proposed various variants of vanilla ViTs to achieve better efficiency and efficacy. However, it remains unclear how their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-22 Rui Tian , Zuxuan Wu , Qi Dai , Han Hu , Yu-Gang Jiang

We apply pre-trained Vision Transformers (ViTs), originally developed for image recognition, to the analysis of astronomical spectral data. By converting traditional one-dimensional spectra into two-dimensional image representations, we…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-05-13 Luis Felipe Strano Moraes , Ignacio Becker , Pavlos Protopapas , Guillermo Cabrera-Vives

Microorganism enumeration is an essential task in many applications, such as assessing contamination levels or ensuring health standards when evaluating surface cleanliness. However, it's traditionally performed by human-supervised methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-04 Javier Ureña Santiago , Thomas Ströhle , Antonio Rodríguez-Sánchez , Ruth Breu

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated strong capabilities in capturing global dependencies but often struggle to efficiently represent fine-grained local details. Existing multi-scale approaches alleviate this issue by integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Qiyang Yu , Yu Fang , Tianrui Li , Xuemei Cao , Yan Chen , Jianghao Li , Fan Min

This paper proposes a working recipe of using Vision Transformer (ViT) in class incremental learning. Although this recipe only combines existing techniques, developing the combination is not trivial. Firstly, naive application of ViT to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Pei Yu , Yinpeng Chen , Ying Jin , Zicheng Liu

Self-supervision has shown outstanding results for natural language processing, and more recently, for image recognition. Simultaneously, vision transformers and its variants have emerged as a promising and scalable alternative to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Prarthana Bhattacharyya , Chenge Li , Xiaonan Zhao , István Fehérvári , Jason Sun

Transformer, an attention-based encoder-decoder model, has already revolutionized the field of natural language processing (NLP). Inspired by such significant achievements, some pioneering works have recently been done on employing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-07 Yang Liu , Yao Zhang , Yixin Wang , Feng Hou , Jin Yuan , Jiang Tian , Yang Zhang , Zhongchao Shi , Jianping Fan , Zhiqiang He

Deep learning models have shown remarkable success in dermatological image analysis, offering potential for automated skin disease diagnosis. Previously, convolutional neural network(CNN) based architectures have achieved immense popularity…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Rifat Sadik , Tanvir Rahman , Arpan Bhattacharjee , Bikash Chandra Halder , Ismail Hossain , Mridul Banik , Jia Uddin

The favorable performance of Vision Transformers (ViTs) is often attributed to the multi-head self-attention (MSA). The MSA enables global interactions at each layer of a ViT model, which is a contrasting feature against Convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Nam Hyeon-Woo , Kim Yu-Ji , Byeongho Heo , Dongyoon Han , Seong Joon Oh , Tae-Hyun Oh

Vision Transformers (ViT) have emerged as the de-facto choice for numerous industry grade vision solutions. But their inference cost can be prohibitive for many settings, as they compute self-attention in each layer which suffers from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Rajat Koner , Gagan Jain , Prateek Jain , Volker Tresp , Sujoy Paul

Side-scan sonar (SSS) imagery presents unique challenges in the classification of man-made objects on the seafloor due to the complex and varied underwater environments. Historically, experts have manually interpreted SSS images, relying on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 BW Sheffield , Jeffrey Ellen , Ben Whitmore