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Token compression is essential for reducing the computational and memory requirements of transformer models, enabling their deployment in resource-constrained environments. In this work, we propose an efficient and hardware-compatible token…

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Multi-head self-attention is a distinctive feature extraction mechanism of vision transformers that computes pairwise relationships among all input patches, contributing significantly to their high performance. However, it is known to incur…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-28 Yuki Igaue , Hiroaki Aizawa

Since its inception, Vision Transformer (ViT) has emerged as a prevalent model in the computer vision domain. Nonetheless, the multi-head self-attention (MHSA) mechanism in ViT is computationally expensive due to its calculation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Zhe Bian , Zhe Wang , Wenqiang Han , Kangping Wang

Vision Large Language Models (VLLMs) incur high computational costs due to their reliance on hundreds of visual tokens to represent images. While token pruning offers a promising solution for accelerating inference, this paper, however,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yahong Wang , Juncheng Wu , Zhangkai Ni , Longzhen Yang , Yihang Liu , Chengmei Yang , Ying Wen , Lianghua He , Xianfeng Tang , Hui Liu , Yuyin Zhou

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved remarkable success in various computer vision tasks. However, ViTs have a huge computational cost due to their inherent reliance on multi-head self-attention (MHSA), prompting efforts to accelerate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Seungdong Yoa , Seungjun Lee , Hyeseung Cho , Bumsoo Kim , Woohyung Lim

The recently proposed Vision transformers (ViTs) have shown very impressive empirical performance in various computer vision tasks, and they are viewed as an important type of foundation model. However, ViTs are typically constructed with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Miao Yin , Burak Uzkent , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin , Bo Yuan

In vision-language models (VLMs), visual tokens usually bear a significant amount of computational overhead despite sparsity of information in them when compared to text tokens. To address this, most existing methods learn a network to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Yuan Zhang , Chun-Kai Fan , Junpeng Ma , Wenzhao Zheng , Tao Huang , Kuan Cheng , Denis Gudovskiy , Tomoyuki Okuno , Yohei Nakata , Kurt Keutzer , Shanghang Zhang

The quadratic computational complexity to the number of tokens limits the practical applications of Vision Transformers (ViTs). Several works propose to prune redundant tokens to achieve efficient ViTs. However, these methods generally…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Shuning Chang , Pichao Wang , Ming Lin , Fan Wang , David Junhao Zhang , Rong Jin , Mike Zheng Shou

Video restoration (e.g., video super-resolution) aims to restore high-quality frames from low-quality frames. Different from single image restoration, video restoration generally requires to utilize temporal information from multiple…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Jingyun Liang , Jiezhang Cao , Yuchen Fan , Kai Zhang , Rakesh Ranjan , Yawei Li , Radu Timofte , Luc Van Gool

There has been a growing trend in compressing and transmitting videos from terminals for machine vision tasks. Nevertheless, most video coding optimization method focus on minimizing distortion according to human perceptual metrics,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Fei Zhao , Mengxi Guo , Shijie Zhao , Junlin Li , Li Zhang , Xiaodong Xie

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) incur high computational costs due to significant redundancy in their visual tokens. To effectively reduce this cost, researchers have proposed various visual token pruning methods. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Wen Luo , Peng Chen , Xiaotao Huang , LiQun Huang

Vision Transformer (ViT) has recently demonstrated promise in computer vision problems. However, unlike Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN), it is known that the performance of ViT saturates quickly with depth increasing, due to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Peihao Wang , Wenqing Zheng , Tianlong Chen , Zhangyang Wang

Visual token pruning is a promising approach for reducing the computational cost of vision-language models (VLMs), and existing methods often rely on early pruning decisions to improve efficiency. While effective on coarse-grained reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Chen Qian , Xinran Yu , Danyang Li , Guoxuan Chi , Zheng Yang , Qiang Ma , Xin Miao

Streaming video clips with large-scale video tokens impede vision transformers (ViTs) for efficient recognition, especially in video action detection where sufficient spatiotemporal representations are required for precise actor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Lei Chen , Zhan Tong , Yibing Song , Gangshan Wu , Limin Wang

We study a crucial yet often overlooked issue inherent to Vision Transformers (ViTs): feature maps of these models exhibit grid-like artifacts, which hurt the performance of ViTs in downstream dense prediction tasks such as semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Jiawei Yang , Katie Z Luo , Jiefeng Li , Congyue Deng , Leonidas Guibas , Dilip Krishnan , Kilian Q Weinberger , Yonglong Tian , Yue Wang

Recent image-to-video (I2V) based video inpainting methods have made significant strides by leveraging single-image priors and modeling temporal consistency across masked frames. Nevertheless, these methods suffer from severe content…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-17 Ming Xie , Junqiu Yu , Qiaole Dong , Xiangyang Xue , Yanwei Fu

Can we use sparse tokens for dense prediction, e.g., segmentation? Although token sparsification has been applied to Vision Transformers (ViT) to accelerate classification, it is still unknown how to perform segmentation from sparse tokens.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-14 Lei Zhou , Huidong Liu , Joseph Bae , Junjun He , Dimitris Samaras , Prateek Prasanna

Vision transformer (ViT) recently has drawn great attention in computer vision due to its remarkable model capability. However, most prevailing ViT models suffer from huge number of parameters, restricting their applicability on devices…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-22 Kan Wu , Jinnian Zhang , Houwen Peng , Mengchen Liu , Bin Xiao , Jianlong Fu , Lu Yuan

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have emerged as the state-of-the-art architecture in representation learning, leveraging self-attention mechanisms to excel in various tasks. ViTs split images into fixed-size patches, constraining them to a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Aswathi Varma , Suprosanna Shit , Chinmay Prabhakar , Daniel Scholz , Hongwei Bran Li , Bjoern Menze , Daniel Rueckert , Benedikt Wiestler

Patch attacks, one of the most threatening forms of physical attack in adversarial examples, can lead networks to induce misclassification by modifying pixels arbitrarily in a continuous region. Certifiable patch defense can guarantee…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-17 Zhaoyu Chen , Bo Li , Jianghe Xu , Shuang Wu , Shouhong Ding , Wenqiang Zhang