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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

For computer vision, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become one of the go-to deep net architectures. Despite being inspired by Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), ViTs' output remains sensitive to small spatial shifts in the input, i.e.,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Renan A. Rojas-Gomez , Teck-Yian Lim , Minh N. Do , Raymond A. Yeh

Recently, Vision Transformers (ViTs) have attracted a lot of attention in the field of computer vision. Generally, the powerful representative capacity of ViTs mainly benefits from the self-attention mechanism, which has a high computation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-12 Deli Yu , Teng Xi , Jianwei Li , Baopu Li , Gang Zhang , Haocheng Feng , Junyu Han , Jingtuo Liu , Errui Ding , Jingdong Wang

Recent works have shown that large models pretrained on common visual learning tasks can provide useful representations for a wide range of specialized perception problems, as well as a variety of robotic manipulation tasks. While prior…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-14 Mohit Sharma , Claudio Fantacci , Yuxiang Zhou , Skanda Koppula , Nicolas Heess , Jon Scholz , Yusuf Aytar

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have excelled in vehicle re-identification (ReID) tasks. However, non-square aspect ratios of image or video input might significantly affect the re-identification performance. To address this issue, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Mei Qiu , Lauren Christopher , Lingxi Li

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have recently taken computer vision by storm. However, the softmax attention underlying ViTs comes with a quadratic complexity in time and memory, hindering the application of ViTs to high-resolution images. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Chuanyang Zheng

Although transformers have become the neural architectures of choice for natural language processing, they require orders of magnitude more training data, GPU memory, and computations in order to compete with convolutional neural networks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-04 Pranav Jeevan , Amit Sethi

Vision Transformer (ViT) is emerging as the state-of-the-art architecture for image recognition. While recent studies suggest that ViTs are more robust than their convolutional counterparts, our experiments find that ViTs trained on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-05 Chengzhi Mao , Lu Jiang , Mostafa Dehghani , Carl Vondrick , Rahul Sukthankar , Irfan Essa

In continual learning, networks confront a trade-off between stability and plasticity when trained on a sequence of tasks. To bolster plasticity without sacrificing stability, we propose a novel training algorithm called LRFR. This approach…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Zhenrong Liu , Yang Li , Yi Gong , Yik-Chung Wu

The usage of transformers has grown from learning about language semantics to forming meaningful visiolinguistic representations. These architectures are often over-parametrized, requiring large amounts of computation. In this work, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-09 Prajjwal Bhargava

Vision Transformers (ViT) have marked a paradigm shift in computer vision, outperforming state-of-the-art models across diverse tasks. However, their practical deployment is hampered by high computational and memory demands. This study…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Feiyang Chen , Ziqian Luo , Lisang Zhou , Xueting Pan , Ying Jiang

Recently, foundation models based on Vision Transformers (ViTs) have become widely available. However, their fine-tuning process is highly resource-intensive, and it hinders their adoption in several edge or low-energy applications. To this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Alessio Devoto , Federico Alvetreti , Jary Pomponi , Paolo Di Lorenzo , Pasquale Minervini , Simone Scardapane

The adaptive learning capabilities seen in biological neural networks are largely a product of the self-modifying behavior emerging from online plastic changes in synaptic connectivity. Current methods in Reinforcement Learning (RL) only…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-06-16 Samuel Schmidgall

Deep artificial neural networks famously struggle to learn from non-stationary streams of data. Without dedicated mitigation strategies, continual learning is associated with continuous forgetting of previous tasks and a progressive loss of…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-29 Suzanne van der Veldt , Gido M. van de Ven , Sanne Moorman , Guillaume Etter

Vision transformers (ViTs) have become essential backbones in advanced computer vision applications and multi-modal foundation models. Despite their strengths, ViTs remain vulnerable to adversarial perturbations, comparable to or even…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-06 Bhavna Gopal , Huanrui Yang , Mark Horton , Yiran Chen

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on various vision tasks. However, ViTs' self-attention module is still arguably a major bottleneck, limiting their achievable hardware efficiency. Meanwhile, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Haoran You , Zhanyi Sun , Huihong Shi , Zhongzhi Yu , Yang Zhao , Yongan Zhang , Chaojian Li , Baopu Li , Yingyan Celine Lin

Contrastive representation learning has emerged as a promising technique for continual learning as it can learn representations that are robust to catastrophic forgetting and generalize well to unseen future tasks. Previous work in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-06 Rouzbeh Meshkinnejad , Jie Mei , Daniel Lizotte , Yalda Mohsenzadeh

Recent advances in vision Transformers (ViTs) have come with a voracious appetite for computing power, high-lighting the urgent need to develop efficient training methods for ViTs. Progressive learning, a training scheme where the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-29 Changlin Li , Bohan Zhuang , Guangrun Wang , Xiaodan Liang , Xiaojun Chang , Yi Yang

Though vision transformers (ViTs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance in a variety of settings, they exhibit surprising failures when performing tasks involving visual relations. This begs the question: how do ViTs attempt to perform…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Michael A. Lepori , Alexa R. Tartaglini , Wai Keen Vong , Thomas Serre , Brenden M. Lake , Ellie Pavlick

Vision transformers (ViTs) inherited the success of NLP but their structures have not been sufficiently investigated and optimized for visual tasks. One of the simplest solutions is to directly search the optimal one via the widely used…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-01 Xiu Su , Shan You , Jiyang Xie , Mingkai Zheng , Fei Wang , Chen Qian , Changshui Zhang , Xiaogang Wang , Chang Xu