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SAGE enhances Vision Transformers for universal vision recognition

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Researchers have introduced SAGE, a Saliency-Annealed Gated Encoder designed to enhance Vision Transformers (ViTs) for universal vision recognition tasks. SAGE integrates a saliency-guided architecture that leverages DINO-style class-token saliency for feature gating and detail enhancement. It also employs an annealing-based training paradigm and a two-stage, quality-aware training mechanism that transitions from focal loss to Varifocal Loss. This approach has achieved state-of-the-art results on benchmarks including COCO, ADE20K, TinyImageNet, and DIOR-R, utilizing the same backbone across all tasks. AI

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SAGE enhances Vision Transformers for universal vision recognition

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Le Yang, Yucheng Huang, Junyu Chen, Qi Dang, Xin Kong, Haifeng Huo, Qiang Zhao ·

    SAGE: Saliency-Annealed Gated Encoder for Universal Vision Recognition

    arXiv:2610.36719v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When adapting self-supervised Vision Transformers (ViTs) to dense prediction, existing methods often treat the ViT as a passive feature extractor and may underuse the rich priors encoded in its representations, including saliency, g…

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