分层结构在最近的视觉变压器中很受欢迎，但是，它们需要复杂的设计和大规模的数据集。在本文中，我们探讨了在非重叠图像块上嵌套基本本地变压器的想法，并以分层方式聚合它们。我们发现块聚合函数在启用跨块非本地信息通信方面发挥着关键作用。此观察导致我们设计简化的架构，该架构需要在原始视觉变压器上更改次要代码。拟议的明智选择的设计的好处是三倍：（1）巢汇聚速度更快，需要更少的培训数据，以实现对图中的良好的概率和小型数据集如CiFAR; （2）在将关键思想扩展到图像生成时，巢导致强大的解码器，这是8美元\时代比以前的基于变压器的发电机更快; （3）我们展示通过我们设计中的这种嵌套层次结构解耦了特征学习和抽象过程，使得能够构建一种新的方法（命名的Gradcat），用于视觉解释学习模型。源代码可用https://github.com/google-research/nested-transformer。

尽管图像变形金刚与计算机视觉任务中的卷积神经网络显示出竞争性结果，但缺乏诸如区域的电感偏见仍然在模型效率方面构成问题，尤其是对于嵌入式应用程序而言。在这项工作中，我们通过引入注意力面具以将空间位置纳入自我发挥作用来解决这个问题。局部依赖性有效地捕获了掩盖的注意力头，以及由未掩盖的注意力头部捕获的全球依赖性。随着蒙版注意力图像变压器 - MAIT，与CAIT相比，TOP -1的准确性提高了1.7％，与SWIN相比，吞吐量更少，吞吐量提高了1.5倍。使用注意力面罩编码局部性是模型的不可知论，因此它适用于整体，分层或其他新型变压器体系结构。

变形金刚最近在计算机视觉社区中引起了极大的关注。然而，缺乏关于图像大小的自我注意力机制的可扩展性限制了它们在最先进的视觉骨架中的广泛采用。在本文中，我们介绍了一种高效且可扩展的注意模型，我们称之为多轴注意，该模型由两个方面组成：阻止局部和扩张的全球关注。这些设计选择允许仅具有线性复杂性的任意输入分辨率上进行全局本地空间相互作用。我们还通过有效地将我们提出的注意模型与卷积混合在一起，提出了一个新的建筑元素，因此，通过简单地在多个阶段重复基本的构建块，提出了一个简单的层次视觉主链，称为Maxvit。值得注意的是，即使在早期的高分辨率阶段，Maxvit也能够在整个网络中“看到”。我们证明了模型在广泛的视觉任务上的有效性。根据图像分类，Maxvit在各种设置下实现最先进的性能：没有额外的数据，Maxvit获得了86.5％的Imagenet-1K Top-1精度；使用Imagenet-21K预训练，我们的模型可实现88.7％的TOP-1精度。对于下游任务，麦克斯维特（Maxvit）作为骨架可在对象检测以及视觉美学评估方面提供有利的性能。我们还表明，我们提出的模型表达了ImageNet上强大的生成建模能力，这表明了Maxvit块作为通用视觉模块的优势潜力。源代码和训练有素的模型将在https://github.com/google-research/maxvit上找到。

Recently, neural networks purely based on attention were shown to address image understanding tasks such as image classification. These highperforming vision transformers are pre-trained with hundreds of millions of images using a large infrastructure, thereby limiting their adoption.In this work, we produce competitive convolutionfree transformers trained on ImageNet only using a single computer in less than 3 days. Our reference vision transformer (86M parameters) achieves top-1 accuracy of 83.1% (single-crop) on ImageNet with no external data.We also introduce a teacher-student strategy specific to transformers. It relies on a distillation token ensuring that the student learns from the teacher through attention, typically from a convnet teacher. The learned transformers are competitive (85.2% top-1 acc.) with the state of the art on ImageNet, and similarly when transferred to other tasks. We will share our code and models.

While the Transformer architecture has become the de-facto standard for natural language processing tasks, its applications to computer vision remain limited. In vision, attention is either applied in conjunction with convolutional networks, or used to replace certain components of convolutional networks while keeping their overall structure in place. We show that this reliance on CNNs is not necessary and a pure transformer applied directly to sequences of image patches can perform very well on image classification tasks. When pre-trained on large amounts of data and transferred to multiple mid-sized or small image recognition benchmarks (ImageNet, CIFAR-100, VTAB, etc.), Vision Transformer (ViT) attains excellent results compared to state-of-the-art convolutional networks while requiring substantially fewer computational resources to train. 1

最近，变形金刚在各种视觉任务中表现出了有希望的表现。变压器设计中的一个挑战性问题是，全球自我注意力非常昂贵，尤其是对于高分辨率视觉任务。局部自我注意力在局部区域内执行注意力计算以提高其效率，从而导致其在单个注意力层中的接受场不够大，从而导致上下文建模不足。在观察场景时，人类通常集中在局部区域，同时在粗粒度下参加非注意区域。基于这一观察结果，我们开发了轴向扩展的窗口自我发注意机制，该机制在局部窗口内执行精细颗粒的自我注意力，并在水平和垂直轴上进行粗粒度的自我注意力，因此可以有效地捕获短 - 远程视觉依赖性。

视觉变压器（VIT）用作强大的视觉模型。与卷积神经网络不同，在前几年主导视觉研究，视觉变压器享有捕获数据中的远程依赖性的能力。尽管如此，任何变压器架构的组成部分，自我关注机制都存在高延迟和低效的内存利用，使其不太适合高分辨率输入图像。为了缓解这些缺点，分层视觉模型在非交错的窗口上局部使用自我关注。这种放松会降低输入尺寸的复杂性;但是，它限制了横窗相互作用，损害了模型性能。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的班次不变的本地注意层，称为查询和参加（QNA），其以重叠的方式聚集在本地输入，非常类似于卷积。 QNA背后的关键想法是介绍学习的查询，这允许快速高效地实现。我们通过将其纳入分层视觉变压器模型来验证我们的层的有效性。我们展示了速度和内存复杂性的改进，同时实现了与最先进的模型的可比准确性。最后，我们的图层尺寸尤其良好，窗口大小，需要高于X10的内存，而不是比现有方法更快。

最近的工作表明了计算机视觉应用的变压器的潜力。第一图像首先分区，然后将其用作注意机制的输入令牌。由于注意机构的昂贵二次成本，使用大的贴片尺寸，导致粗糙的全局相互作用，或者，替代地，仅在图像的局部区域上施加注意力，以牺牲远程相互作用为代价。在这项工作中，我们提出了一种方法，该方法允许在视觉变压器的早期层上允许粗糙的全局相互作用和细粒局部相互作用。在我们的方法的核心，是应用本地和全球注意层的应用。在本地注意层中，我们对每个补丁及其本地移位进行注意，导致几乎位于本地补丁，这些修补程序不绑定到单个特定位置。然后在全球注意层中使用这些实际的补丁。注意层进入本地和全局对应物的分离允许在贴片的数量中进行低计算成本，同时仍然支持已经在第一层处的数据相关的本地化，而不是其他可视变压器中的静态定位。我们的方法被证明优于基于卷积和变压器的图像分类方法，用于CIFAR10，CIFAR100和Imagenet。代码可在：https://github.com/shellysheynin/locally-sag-transformer。

视觉表示学习是解决各种视力问题的关键。依靠开创性的网格结构先验，卷积神经网络（CNN）已成为大多数深视觉模型的事实上的标准架构。例如，经典的语义分割方法通常采用带有编码器编码器体系结构的完全横向卷积网络（FCN）。编码器逐渐减少了空间分辨率，并通过更大的接受场来学习更多抽象的视觉概念。由于上下文建模对于分割至关重要，因此最新的努力一直集中在通过扩张（即极度）卷积或插入注意力模块来增加接受场。但是，基于FCN的体系结构保持不变。在本文中，我们旨在通过将视觉表示学习作为序列到序列预测任务来提供替代观点。具体而言，我们部署纯变压器以将图像编码为一系列贴片，而无需局部卷积和分辨率减少。通过在变压器的每一层中建立的全球环境，可以学习更强大的视觉表示形式，以更好地解决视力任务。特别是，我们的细分模型（称为分割变压器（SETR））在ADE20K上擅长（50.28％MIOU，这是提交当天测试排行榜中的第一个位置），Pascal环境（55.83％MIOU），并在CityScapes上达到竞争成果。此外，我们制定了一个分层局部全球（HLG）变压器的家族，其特征是窗户内的本地关注和跨窗户的全球性专注于层次结构和金字塔架构。广泛的实验表明，我们的方法在各种视觉识别任务（例如，图像分类，对象检测和实例分割和语义分割）上实现了吸引力的性能。

This paper presents a new vision Transformer, called Swin Transformer, that capably serves as a general-purpose backbone for computer vision. Challenges in adapting Transformer from language to vision arise from differences between the two domains, such as large variations in the scale of visual entities and the high resolution of pixels in images compared to words in text. To address these differences, we propose a hierarchical Transformer whose representation is computed with Shifted windows. The shifted windowing scheme brings greater efficiency by limiting self-attention computation to non-overlapping local windows while also allowing for cross-window connection. This hierarchical architecture has the flexibility to model at various scales and has linear computational complexity with respect to image size. These qualities of Swin Transformer make it compatible with a broad range of vision tasks, including image classification (87.3 top-1 accuracy on ImageNet-1K) and dense prediction tasks such as object detection (58.7 box AP and 51.1 mask AP on COCO testdev) and semantic segmentation (53.5 mIoU on ADE20K val). Its performance surpasses the previous state-of-theart by a large margin of +2.7 box AP and +2.6 mask AP on COCO, and +3.2 mIoU on ADE20K, demonstrating the potential of Transformer-based models as vision backbones. The hierarchical design and the shifted window approach also prove beneficial for all-MLP architectures. The code and models are publicly available at https://github. com/microsoft/Swin-Transformer.

Transformer is a new kind of neural architecture which encodes the input data as powerful features via the attention mechanism. Basically, the visual transformers first divide the input images into several local patches and then calculate both representations and their relationship. Since natural images are of high complexity with abundant detail and color information, the granularity of the patch dividing is not fine enough for excavating features of objects in different scales and locations. In this paper, we point out that the attention inside these local patches are also essential for building visual transformers with high performance and we explore a new architecture, namely, Transformer iN Transformer (TNT). Specifically, we regard the local patches (e.g., 16×16) as "visual sentences" and present to further divide them into smaller patches (e.g., 4×4) as "visual words". The attention of each word will be calculated with other words in the given visual sentence with negligible computational costs. Features of both words and sentences will be aggregated to enhance the representation ability. Experiments on several benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed TNT architecture, e.g., we achieve an 81.5% top-1 accuracy on the ImageNet, which is about 1.7% higher than that of the state-of-the-art visual transformer with similar computational cost.

Recently, neural networks purely based on attention were shown to address image understanding tasks such as image classification. These highperforming vision transformers are pre-trained with hundreds of millions of images using a large infrastructure, thereby limiting their adoption.In this work, we produce competitive convolution-free transformers by training on Imagenet only. We train them on a single computer in less than 3 days. Our reference vision transformer (86M parameters) achieves top-1 accuracy of 83.1% (single-crop) on ImageNet with no external data.More importantly, we introduce a teacher-student strategy specific to transformers. It relies on a distillation token ensuring that the student learns from the teacher through attention. We show the interest of this token-based distillation, especially when using a convnet as a teacher. This leads us to report results competitive with convnets for both Imagenet (where we obtain up to 85.2% accuracy) and when transferring to other tasks. We share our code and models.

We present the Group Propagation Vision Transformer (GPViT): a novel nonhierarchical (i.e. non-pyramidal) transformer model designed for general visual recognition with high-resolution features. High-resolution features (or tokens) are a natural fit for tasks that involve perceiving fine-grained details such as detection and segmentation, but exchanging global information between these features is expensive in memory and computation because of the way self-attention scales. We provide a highly efficient alternative Group Propagation Block (GP Block) to exchange global information. In each GP Block, features are first grouped together by a fixed number of learnable group tokens; we then perform Group Propagation where global information is exchanged between the grouped features; finally, global information in the updated grouped features is returned back to the image features through a transformer decoder. We evaluate GPViT on a variety of visual recognition tasks including image classification, semantic segmentation, object detection, and instance segmentation. Our method achieves significant performance gains over previous works across all tasks, especially on tasks that require high-resolution outputs, for example, our GPViT-L3 outperforms Swin Transformer-B by 2.0 mIoU on ADE20K semantic segmentation with only half as many parameters. Code and pre-trained models are available at https://github.com/ChenhongyiYang/GPViT .

Transformer-based models, capable of learning better global dependencies, have recently demonstrated exceptional representation learning capabilities in computer vision and medical image analysis. Transformer reformats the image into separate patches and realize global communication via the self-attention mechanism. However, positional information between patches is hard to preserve in such 1D sequences, and loss of it can lead to sub-optimal performance when dealing with large amounts of heterogeneous tissues of various sizes in 3D medical image segmentation. Additionally, current methods are not robust and efficient for heavy-duty medical segmentation tasks such as predicting a large number of tissue classes or modeling globally inter-connected tissues structures. Inspired by the nested hierarchical structures in vision transformer, we proposed a novel 3D medical image segmentation method (UNesT), employing a simplified and faster-converging transformer encoder design that achieves local communication among spatially adjacent patch sequences by aggregating them hierarchically. We extensively validate our method on multiple challenging datasets, consisting anatomies of 133 structures in brain, 14 organs in abdomen, 4 hierarchical components in kidney, and inter-connected kidney tumors). We show that UNesT consistently achieves state-of-the-art performance and evaluate its generalizability and data efficiency. Particularly, the model achieves whole brain segmentation task complete ROI with 133 tissue classes in single network, outperforms prior state-of-the-art method SLANT27 ensembled with 27 network tiles, our model performance increases the mean DSC score of the publicly available Colin and CANDI dataset from 0.7264 to 0.7444 and from 0.6968 to 0.7025, respectively.

我们展示了如何通过基于关注的全球地图扩充任何卷积网络，以实现非本地推理。我们通过基于关注的聚合层替换为单个变压器块的最终平均池，重量贴片如何参与分类决策。我们使用2个参数（宽度和深度）使用简单的补丁卷积网络，使用简单的补丁的卷积网络插入学习的聚合层。与金字塔设计相比，该架构系列在所有层上维护输入补丁分辨率。它在准确性和复杂性之间产生了令人惊讶的竞争权衡，特别是在记忆消耗方面，如我们在各种计算机视觉任务所示：对象分类，图像分割和检测的实验所示。

随着计算机愿景中变压器架构的普及，研究焦点已转向开发计算有效的设计。基于窗口的本地关注是最近作品采用的主要技术之一。这些方法以非常小的贴片尺寸和小的嵌入尺寸开始，然后执行冲击卷积（贴片合并），以减少特征图尺寸并增加嵌入尺寸，因此，形成像设计的金字塔卷积神经网络（CNN）。在这项工作中，我们通过呈现一种新的各向同性架构，调查变压器中的本地和全球信息建模，以便采用当地窗口和特殊令牌，称为超级令牌，以自我关注。具体地，将单个超级令牌分配给每个图像窗口，该窗口捕获该窗口的丰富本地细节。然后使用这些令牌用于跨窗口通信和全局代表学习。因此，大多数学习都独立于较高层次的图像补丁$（n）$，并且仅基于超级令牌$（n / m ^ 2）$何处，从中学习额外的嵌入量窗口大小。在ImageNet-1K上的标准图像分类中，所提出的基于超代币的变压器（STT-S25）实现了83.5 \％的精度，其等同于带有大约一半参数（49M）的Swin变压器（Swin-B）和推断的两倍时间吞吐量。建议的超级令牌变压器为可视识别任务提供轻量级和有前途的骨干。

在语言领域取得成功之后，自我发挥机制（变压器）在视觉领域采用并取得了巨大的成功。此外，作为另一个流中的多层感知器（MLP），也在视觉域中探索。除传统CNN以外，这些架构最近引起了人们的关注，并提出了许多方法。作为将参数效率和性能与图像识别中的局部性和层次结合在一起的一种，我们提出了将两个流合并的GSWIN。Swin Transformer和（多头）GMLP。我们表明，与具有较小模型大小的SWIN Transformer相比，GSWIN可以在三个视觉任务，图像分类，对象检测和语义分割方面实现更好的准确性。

图像中的场景细分是视觉内容理解中的一个基本而又具有挑战性的问题，即学习一个模型，将每个图像像素分配给分类标签。这项学习任务的挑战之一是考虑空间和语义关系以获得描述性特征表示，因此从多个量表中学习特征图是场景细分中的一种常见实践。在本文中，我们探讨了在多尺度图像窗口中自我发挥的有效使用来学习描述性视觉特征，然后提出三种不同的策略来汇总这些特征图以解码特征表示形式以进行密集的预测。我们的设计基于最近提出的SWIN Transformer模型，该模型完全放弃了卷积操作。借助简单而有效的多尺度功能学习和聚合，我们的模型在四个公共场景细分数据集，Pascal VOC2012，Coco-STUFF 10K，ADE20K和CITYSCAPES上实现了非常有希望的性能。

在本文中，我们询问视觉变形金刚（VIT）是否可以作为改善机器学习模型对抗逃避攻击的对抗性鲁棒性的基础结构。尽管较早的作品集中在改善卷积神经网络上，但我们表明VIT也非常适合对抗训练以实现竞争性能。我们使用自定义的对抗训练配方实现了这一目标，该配方是在Imagenet数据集的一部分上使用严格的消融研究发现的。与卷积相比，VIT的规范培训配方建议强大的数据增强，部分是为了补偿注意力模块的视力归纳偏置。我们表明，该食谱在用于对抗训练时可实现次优性能。相比之下，我们发现省略所有重型数据增强，并添加一些额外的零件（$ \ varepsilon $ -Warmup和更大的重量衰减），从而大大提高了健壮的Vits的性能。我们表明，我们的配方在完整的Imagenet-1k上概括了不同类别的VIT体系结构和大规模模型。此外，调查了模型鲁棒性的原因，我们表明，在使用我们的食谱时，在训练过程中产生强烈的攻击更加容易，这会在测试时提高鲁棒性。最后，我们通过提出一种量化对抗性扰动的语义性质并强调其与模型的鲁棒性的相关性来进一步研究对抗训练的结果。总体而言，我们建议社区应避免将VIT的规范培训食谱转换为在对抗培训的背景下进行强大的培训和重新思考常见的培训选择。

Astounding results from Transformer models on natural language tasks have intrigued the vision community to study their application to computer vision problems. Among their salient benefits, Transformers enable modeling long dependencies between input sequence elements and support parallel processing of sequence as compared to recurrent networks e.g., Long short-term memory (LSTM). Different from convolutional networks, Transformers require minimal inductive biases for their design and are naturally suited as set-functions. Furthermore, the straightforward design of Transformers allows processing multiple modalities (e.g., images, videos, text and speech) using similar processing blocks and demonstrates excellent scalability to very large capacity networks and huge datasets. These strengths have led to exciting progress on a number of vision tasks using Transformer networks. This survey aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the Transformer models in the computer vision discipline. We start with an introduction to fundamental concepts behind the success of Transformers i.e., self-attention, large-scale pre-training, and bidirectional feature encoding. We then cover extensive applications of transformers in vision including popular recognition tasks (e.g., image classification, object detection, action recognition, and segmentation), generative modeling, multi-modal tasks (e.g., visual-question answering, visual reasoning, and visual grounding), video processing (e.g., activity recognition, video forecasting), low-level vision (e.g., image super-resolution, image enhancement, and colorization) and 3D analysis (e.g., point cloud classification and segmentation). We compare the respective advantages and limitations of popular techniques both in terms of architectural design and their experimental value. Finally, we provide an analysis on open research directions and possible future works. We hope this effort will ignite further interest in the community to solve current challenges towards the application of transformer models in computer vision.