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Vision Transformers improved with selective token interaction

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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.

RANK_REASON The cluster contains an academic paper detailing a new method for improving existing AI models.

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COVERAGE [2]

  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Linxiang Su ·

    Vision Transformers Need Better Token Interaction

    arXiv:2605.23868v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) can learn strong image-level representations while their patch representations become less effective for dense prediction during prolonged training. We revisit this dense degradation phenomenon and argue t…

  2. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Linxiang Su ·

    Vision Transformers Need Better Token Interaction

    Vision Transformers (ViTs) can learn strong image-level representations while their patch representations become less effective for dense prediction during prolonged training. We revisit this dense degradation phenomenon and argue that it is not fully explained by high-norm artif…

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