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Vision transformers (ViTs) are quickly becoming the de-facto architecture for computer vision, yet we understand very little about why they work and what they learn. While existing studies visually analyze the mechanisms of convolutional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-14 Amin Ghiasi , Hamid Kazemi , Eitan Borgnia , Steven Reich , Manli Shu , Micah Goldblum , Andrew Gordon Wilson , Tom Goldstein

Recent advances in visual reasoning have leveraged vision transformers to tackle the ARC-AGI benchmark. However, we argue that the feed-forward architecture, where computational depth is strictly bound to parameter size, falls short of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Wen-Jie Shu , Xuerui Qiu , Rui-Jie Zhu , Harold Haodong Chen , Yexin Liu , Harry Yang

Vision transformers (ViTs) have recently set off a new wave in neural architecture design thanks to their record-breaking performance in various vision tasks. In parallel, to fulfill the goal of deploying ViTs into real-world vision…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Yonggan Fu , Shunyao Zhang , Shang Wu , Cheng Wan , Yingyan Celine Lin

Vision transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in a variety of vision tasks. Despite their promising capabilities, training a ViT requires a large amount of diverse data. Several studies empirically found that using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Bum Jun Kim , Sang Woo Kim

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as powerful models in the field of computer vision, delivering superior performance across various vision tasks. However, the high computational complexity poses a significant barrier to their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Xinjian Wu , Fanhu Zeng , Xiudong Wang , Xinghao Chen

Self-attention in Transformers comes with a high computational cost because of their quadratic computational complexity, but their effectiveness in addressing problems in language and vision has sparked extensive research aimed at enhancing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Tobias Christian Nauen , Sebastian Palacio , Federico Raue , Andreas Dengel

Vision Transformer (ViT) has gained increasing attention in the computer vision community in recent years. However, the core component of ViT, Self-Attention, lacks explicit spatial priors and bears a quadratic computational complexity,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Qihang Fan , Huaibo Huang , Mingrui Chen , Hongmin Liu , Ran He

Recently, Transformer-based image restoration networks have achieved promising improvements over convolutional neural networks due to parameter-independent global interactions. To lower computational cost, existing works generally limit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-06 Jiale Zhang , Yulun Zhang , Jinjin Gu , Yongbing Zhang , Linghe Kong , Xin Yuan

Vision Transformers (ViT) have recently demonstrated the significant potential of transformer architectures for computer vision. To what extent can image-based deep reinforcement learning also benefit from ViT architectures, as compared to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-17 Tianxin Tao , Daniele Reda , Michiel van de Panne

The Vision Transformer (ViT) has made significant advancements in computer vision, utilizing self-attention mechanisms to achieve state-of-the-art performance across various tasks, including image classification, object detection, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-29 Sehyeong Jo , Gangjae Jang , Haesol Park

Transformer neural networks, known for their ability to recognize complex patterns in high-dimensional data, offer a promising framework for capturing many-body correlations in quantum systems. We employ an adapted Vision Transformer (ViT)…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2024-08-26 Xiaodong Cao , Zhicheng Zhong , Yi Lu

A recent work shows that Attention Transfer, which transfers only the attention patterns from a pre-trained teacher Vision Transformer (ViT) to a randomly initialized standard student ViT, is sufficient to recover the full benefit of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Huaiyuan Qin , Muli Yang , Gabriel James Goenawan , Peng Hu , Chen Gong , Xi Peng , Hongyuan Zhu

Continual learning algorithms strive to acquire new knowledge while preserving prior information. Often, these algorithms emphasise stability and restrict network updates upon learning new tasks. In many cases, such restrictions come at a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Daniel Anthes , Sushrut Thorat , Peter König , Tim C. Kietzmann

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-03 Ian Covert , Chanwoo Kim , Su-In Lee

A growing body of evidence suggests that neural networks employed in deep reinforcement learning (RL) gradually lose their plasticity, the ability to learn from new data; however, the analysis and mitigation of this phenomenon is hampered…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Evgenii Nikishin , Junhyuk Oh , Georg Ostrovski , Clare Lyle , Razvan Pascanu , Will Dabney , André Barreto

What constitutes an object? This has been a long-standing question in computer vision. Towards this goal, numerous learning-free and learning-based approaches have been developed to score objectness. However, they generally do not scale…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Muhammad Maaz , Hanoona Rasheed , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Rao Muhammad Anwer , Ming-Hsuan Yang

With the success of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in computer vision tasks, recent arts try to optimize the performance and complexity of ViTs to enable efficient deployment on mobile devices. Multiple approaches are proposed to accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Yanyu Li , Ju Hu , Yang Wen , Georgios Evangelidis , Kamyar Salahi , Yanzhi Wang , Sergey Tulyakov , Jian Ren

Vision Transformers (ViTs) partition input images into uniformly sized patches regardless of their content, resulting in long input sequence lengths for high-resolution images. We present Adaptive Patch Transformers (APT), which addresses…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Rohan Choudhury , JungEun Kim , Jinhyung Park , Eunho Yang , László A. Jeni , Kris M. Kitani

The transformer architectures, based on self-attention mechanism and convolution-free design, recently found superior performance and booming applications in computer vision. However, the discontinuous patch-wise tokenization process…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-29 Shengju Qian , Hao Shao , Yi Zhu , Mu Li , Jiaya Jia

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