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  1. RESEARCH · arXiv cs.CV English(EN) · · [2 sources]

    Vision Transformers Need Better Token Interaction

    Researchers have identified a phenomenon called "semantic diffusion" that degrades the performance of Vision Transformers (ViTs) in dense prediction tasks over time. This occurs when global semantic information spreads inappropriately through patch tokens. To address this, the study proposes using sparse attention mechanisms, specifically entmax-1.5, to make token interactions more selective. This modification significantly improved performance on semantic segmentation benchmarks like VOC, ADE20K, and Cityscapes while maintaining image-level accuracy. AI

    IMPACT Selective token mixing in Vision Transformers could enhance performance in computer vision tasks like semantic segmentation.

  2. TOOL · arXiv cs.LG English(EN) ·

    Activation-Free Backbones for Image Recognition: Polynomial Alternatives within MetaFormer-Style Vision Models

    Researchers have developed new activation-free backbone architectures for vision models, utilizing polynomial functions instead of traditional pointwise nonlinearities like ReLU or GELU. These novel modules, integrated into the MetaFormer framework, demonstrate competitive or superior performance compared to activation-based models on tasks such as ImageNet classification and semantic segmentation. The study also shows these polynomial variants outperform prior specialized polynomial networks while requiring less computational cost. AI

    Activation-Free Backbones for Image Recognition: Polynomial Alternatives within MetaFormer-Style Vision Models

    IMPACT Introduces a new architectural approach for vision models that could lead to more efficient and robust image recognition systems.