变压器模型不仅在自然语言处理(NLP)中成功,而且还在计算机视觉(CV)中表现出高潜力。尽管提前很大,但大多数作品只关注建筑的改进,但很少关注分类头。多年来,变压器模型专门用于分类令牌来构建最终分类器,而无明确地利用高级字标记。在本文中,我们提出了一种名为二阶变压器(SOT)的新型变压器模型,同时利用分类器的分类令牌和单词令牌。具体地,我们经验披露了高级词令牌包含丰富的信息,其本身是对分类器非常竞争的,而且与分类令牌互补。为了有效地利用这种丰富的信息,我们提出了具有奇异值功率标准化的多头全球交叉协方差汇集,其符合相似的哲学,因此与变压器块兼容,比常用的汇集方法更好。然后,我们全面地研究了如何将单词令牌与分类令牌进行了解,以构建最终分类头。对于CV任务,我们的SOT显着提高了最先进的视觉变压器,以挑战基准,包括想象成和想象力-A。对于NLP任务,通过基于预磨料语言变压器的微调,我们的SOT大大提高了广泛使用的任务等性能,如可乐和RTE。代码将在https://peihuali.org/sot提供
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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.
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视觉变形金刚(VIT)通过贴片图像令牌化推动了各种视觉识别任务的最先进,然后是堆叠的自我注意操作。采用自我发场模块会导致计算和内存使用情况的二次复杂性。因此,已经在自然语言处理中进行了各种尝试以线性复杂性近似自我发挥计算的尝试。但是,这项工作的深入分析表明,它们在理论上是缺陷的,或者在经验上是无效的视觉识别。我们确定它们的局限性植根于在近似过程中保留软马克斯的自我注意力。具体而言,传统的自我注意力是通过使令状特征向量之间的缩放点产物标准化来计算的。保留SoftMax操作会挑战任何随后的线性化工作。在这个见解下,首次提出了无软磁变压器(缩写为软的变压器)。为了消除自我注意事项的软马克斯操作员,采用高斯内核函数来替代点产品相似性。这使完整的自发矩阵可以通过低级矩阵分解近似。我们近似的鲁棒性是通过使用牛顿 - 拉夫森方法来计算其摩尔 - 芬罗逆的。此外,在低级别的自我注意事项上引入了有效的对称归一化,以增强模型的推广性和可传递性。对Imagenet,Coco和ADE20K的广泛实验表明,我们的软可以显着提高现有VIT变体的计算效率。至关重要的是,具有线性复杂性,允许使用较长的令牌序列,从而使精度和复杂性之间的权衡较高。
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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.
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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
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探讨了语言建模流行的变形金刚,用于近期解决视觉任务,例如,用于图像分类的视觉变压器(VIT)。 VIT模型将每个图像分成具有固定长度的令牌序列,然后应用多个变压器层以模拟它们的全局关系以进行分类。然而,当从像想象中的中型数据集上从头开始训练时,VIT对CNNS达到较差的性能。我们发现它是因为:1)输入图像的简单标记未能模拟相邻像素之间的重要局部结构,例如边缘和线路,导致训练采样效率低。 2)冗余注意骨干骨干设计对固定计算预算和有限的训练样本有限的具有限制性。为了克服这些限制,我们提出了一种新的令牌到令牌视觉变压器(T2T-VIT),它包含1)层 - 明智的代币(T2T)转换,通过递归聚合相邻来逐步地结构于令牌到令牌。代币进入一个令牌(令牌到令牌),这样可以建模由周围令牌所代表的本地结构,并且可以减少令牌长度; 2)一种高效的骨干,具有深度狭窄的结构,用于在实证研究后CNN建筑设计的激励变压器结构。值得注意的是,T2T-VIT将Vanilla Vit的参数计数和Mac减少了一半,同时从想象中从头开始训练时,改善了超过3.0 \%。它还优于Endnets并通过直接培训Imagenet训练来实现与MobileNets相当的性能。例如,T2T-VTO与Reset50(21.5M参数)的可比大小(21.5M参数)可以在图像分辨率384 $ \ Times 384上实现83.3 \%TOP1精度。 (代码:https://github.com/yitu-opensource/t2t-vit)
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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。
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本文解决了由多头自我注意力(MHSA)中高计算/空间复杂性引起的视觉变压器的低效率缺陷。为此,我们提出了层次MHSA(H-MHSA),其表示以层次方式计算。具体而言,我们首先将输入图像分为通常完成的补丁,每个补丁都被视为令牌。然后,拟议的H-MHSA学习本地贴片中的令牌关系,作为局部关系建模。然后,将小贴片合并为较大的贴片,H-MHSA对少量合并令牌的全局依赖性建模。最后,汇总了本地和全球专注的功能,以获得具有强大表示能力的功能。由于我们仅在每个步骤中计算有限数量的令牌的注意力,因此大大减少了计算负载。因此,H-MHSA可以在不牺牲细粒度信息的情况下有效地模拟令牌之间的全局关系。使用H-MHSA模块合并,我们建立了一个基于层次的变压器网络的家族,即HAT-NET。为了证明在场景理解中HAT-NET的优越性,我们就基本视觉任务进行了广泛的实验,包括图像分类,语义分割,对象检测和实例细分。因此,HAT-NET为视觉变压器提供了新的视角。可以在https://github.com/yun-liu/hat-net上获得代码和预估计的模型。
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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.
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There still remains an extreme performance gap between Vision Transformers (ViTs) and Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) when training from scratch on small datasets, which is concluded to the lack of inductive bias. In this paper, we further consider this problem and point out two weaknesses of ViTs in inductive biases, that is, the spatial relevance and diverse channel representation. First, on spatial aspect, objects are locally compact and relevant, thus fine-grained feature needs to be extracted from a token and its neighbors. While the lack of data hinders ViTs to attend the spatial relevance. Second, on channel aspect, representation exhibits diversity on different channels. But the scarce data can not enable ViTs to learn strong enough representation for accurate recognition. To this end, we propose Dynamic Hybrid Vision Transformer (DHVT) as the solution to enhance the two inductive biases. On spatial aspect, we adopt a hybrid structure, in which convolution is integrated into patch embedding and multi-layer perceptron module, forcing the model to capture the token features as well as their neighboring features. On channel aspect, we introduce a dynamic feature aggregation module in MLP and a brand new "head token" design in multi-head self-attention module to help re-calibrate channel representation and make different channel group representation interacts with each other. The fusion of weak channel representation forms a strong enough representation for classification. With this design, we successfully eliminate the performance gap between CNNs and ViTs, and our DHVT achieves a series of state-of-the-art performance with a lightweight model, 85.68% on CIFAR-100 with 22.8M parameters, 82.3% on ImageNet-1K with 24.0M parameters. Code is available at https://github.com/ArieSeirack/DHVT.
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Attention-based neural networks, such as Transformers, have become ubiquitous in numerous applications, including computer vision, natural language processing, and time-series analysis. In all kinds of attention networks, the attention maps are crucial as they encode semantic dependencies between input tokens. However, most existing attention networks perform modeling or reasoning based on representations, wherein the attention maps of different layers are learned separately without explicit interactions. In this paper, we propose a novel and generic evolving attention mechanism, which directly models the evolution of inter-token relationships through a chain of residual convolutional modules. The major motivations are twofold. On the one hand, the attention maps in different layers share transferable knowledge, thus adding a residual connection can facilitate the information flow of inter-token relationships across layers. On the other hand, there is naturally an evolutionary trend among attention maps at different abstraction levels, so it is beneficial to exploit a dedicated convolution-based module to capture this process. Equipped with the proposed mechanism, the convolution-enhanced evolving attention networks achieve superior performance in various applications, including time-series representation, natural language understanding, machine translation, and image classification. Especially on time-series representation tasks, Evolving Attention-enhanced Dilated Convolutional (EA-DC-) Transformer outperforms state-of-the-art models significantly, achieving an average of 17% improvement compared to the best SOTA. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first work that explicitly models the layer-wise evolution of attention maps. Our implementation is available at https://github.com/pkuyym/EvolvingAttention
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随着变压器作为语言处理的标准及其在计算机视觉方面的进步,参数大小和培训数据的数量相应地增长。许多人开始相信,因此,变形金刚不适合少量数据。这种趋势引起了人们的关注,例如:某些科学领域中数据的可用性有限,并且排除了该领域研究资源有限的人。在本文中,我们旨在通过引入紧凑型变压器来提出一种小规模学习的方法。我们首次表明,具有正确的尺寸,卷积令牌化,变压器可以避免在小数据集上过度拟合和优于最先进的CNN。我们的模型在模型大小方面具有灵活性,并且在获得竞争成果的同时,参数可能仅为0.28亿。当在CIFAR-10上训练Cifar-10,只有370万参数训练时,我们的最佳模型可以达到98%的准确性,这是与以前的基于变形金刚的模型相比,数据效率的显着提高,比其他变压器小于10倍,并且是15%的大小。在实现类似性能的同时,重新NET50。 CCT还表现优于许多基于CNN的现代方法,甚至超过一些基于NAS的方法。此外,我们在Flowers-102上获得了新的SOTA,具有99.76%的TOP-1准确性,并改善了Imagenet上现有基线(82.71%精度,具有29%的VIT参数)以及NLP任务。我们针对变压器的简单而紧凑的设计使它们更可行,可以为那些计算资源和/或处理小型数据集的人学习,同时扩展了在数据高效变压器中的现有研究工作。我们的代码和预培训模型可在https://github.com/shi-labs/compact-transformers上公开获得。
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视觉多层感知器(MLP)在计算机视觉任务中表现出了有希望的表现,并成为CNNS和Vision Transformers的主要竞争对手。他们使用令牌混合层来捕获交叉互动,而不是变形金刚使用的多头自我发项机制。然而,严重的参数化令牌混合层自然缺乏捕获局部信息和多粒性非本地关系的机制,因此它们的判别能力受到限制。为了解决这个问题,我们提出了一个新的位置空间门控单元(POSGU)。它利用经典相对位置编码(RPE)中使用的注意力公式,以有效地编码令牌混合的交叉关系。它可以成功地将视觉MLP的当前二次参数复杂度$ O(n^2)$ $ O(n^2)$ o(n)$(n)$和$ o(1)$。我们实验了两种RPE机制,并进一步提出了一个小组扩展,以实现多种环境的成就,以提高其表现力。然后,它们是一种新型视觉MLP的关键构建块,称为POSMLP。我们通过进行彻底的实验来评估所提出的方法的有效性,证明参数复杂性的提高或可比性能得到了改善或可比性。例如,对于在ImagEnet1k上训练的模型,我们实现了从72.14 \%\%\%\%的绩效提高,并且可学习的参数从$ 194M $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ 1.182亿美元。代码可以在\ href {https://github.com/zhicaiwww/posmlp} {https://github.com/zhicaiwww/posmlp}中找到代码。
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在本文中,我们通过利用视觉数据中的空间稀疏性提出了一种新的模型加速方法。我们观察到,视觉变压器中的最终预测仅基于最有用的令牌的子集,这足以使图像识别。基于此观察,我们提出了一个动态的令牌稀疏框架,以根据加速视觉变压器的输入逐渐和动态地修剪冗余令牌。具体而言,我们设计了一个轻量级预测模块,以估计给定当前功能的每个令牌的重要性得分。该模块被添加到不同的层中以层次修剪冗余令牌。尽管该框架的启发是我们观察到视觉变压器中稀疏注意力的启发,但我们发现自适应和不对称计算的想法可能是加速各种体系结构的一般解决方案。我们将我们的方法扩展到包括CNN和分层视觉变压器在内的层次模型,以及更复杂的密集预测任务,这些任务需要通过制定更通用的动态空间稀疏框架,并具有渐进性的稀疏性和非对称性计算,用于不同空间位置。通过将轻质快速路径应用于少量的特征,并使用更具表现力的慢速路径到更重要的位置,我们可以维护特征地图的结构,同时大大减少整体计算。广泛的实验证明了我们框架对各种现代体系结构和不同视觉识别任务的有效性。我们的结果清楚地表明,动态空间稀疏为模型加速提供了一个新的,更有效的维度。代码可从https://github.com/raoyongming/dynamicvit获得
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过去一年目睹了将变压器模块应用于视力问题的快速发展。虽然一些研究人员已经证明,基于变压器的模型享有有利的拟合数据能力,但仍然越来越多的证据,表明这些模型尤其在训练数据受到限制时遭受过度拟合。本文通过执行逐步操作来提供实证研究,逐步运输基于变压器的模型到基于卷积的模型。我们在过渡过程中获得的结果为改善视觉识别提供了有用的消息。基于这些观察,我们提出了一个名为VIRFormer的新架构,该体系结构从“视觉友好的变压器”中缩写。具有相同的计算复杂度,在想象集分类精度方面,VISFormer占据了基于变压器的基于卷积的模型,并且当模型复杂性较低或训练集较小时,优势变得更加重要。代码可在https://github.com/danczs/visformer中找到。
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视觉变压器由于能够捕获图像中的长期依赖性的能力而成功地应用于图像识别任务。但是,变压器与现有卷积神经网络(CNN)之间的性能和计算成本仍然存在差距。在本文中,我们旨在解决此问题,并开发一个网络,该网络不仅可以超越规范变压器,而且可以超越高性能卷积模型。我们通过利用变压器来捕获长期依赖性和CNN来建模本地特征,从而提出了一个新的基于变压器的混合网络。此外,我们将其扩展为获得一个称为CMT的模型家族,比以前的基于卷积和基于变压器的模型获得了更好的准确性和效率。特别是,我们的CMT-S在ImageNet上获得了83.5%的TOP-1精度,而在拖鞋上的拖曳率分别比现有的DEIT和EficitiveNet小14倍和2倍。拟议的CMT-S还可以很好地概括CIFAR10(99.2%),CIFAR100(91.7%),花(98.7%)以及其他具有挑战性的视觉数据集,例如可可(44.3%地图),计算成本较小。
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我们在视觉变压器上呈现整洁但有效的递归操作,可以提高参数利用而不涉及额外参数。这是通过在变压器网络的深度分享权重来实现的。所提出的方法可以只使用NA \“IVE递归操作来获得大量增益(〜2%),不需要对设计网络原理的特殊或复杂的知识,并引入训练程序的最小计算开销。减少额外的计算通过递归操作,同时保持卓越的准确性,我们通过递归层的多个切片组自行引入近似方法,这可以通过最小的性能损失将成本消耗降低10〜30%。我们称我们的模型切片递归变压器(SRET) ,这与高效视觉变压器的广泛的其他设计兼容。我们最好的模型在含有较少参数的同时,在最先进的方法中对Imagenet建立了重大改进。建议的切片递归操作使我们能够建立一个变压器超过100甚至1000层,仍然仍然小尺寸(13〜15米),以避免困难当模型尺寸太大时,IES在优化中。灵活的可扩展性显示出缩放和构建极深和大维视觉变压器的巨大潜力。我们的代码和模型可在https://github.com/szq0214/sret中找到。
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我们呈现了基于纯变压器的视频分类模型,在图像分类中最近的近期成功进行了借鉴。我们的模型从输入视频中提取了时空令牌,然后由一系列变压器层编码。为了处理视频中遇到的令牌的长序列,我们提出了我们模型的几种有效的变体,它们将输入的空间和时间维构建。虽然已知基于变换器的模型只有在可用的大型训练数据集时才有效,但我们展示了我们如何在训练期间有效地规范模型,并利用预先训练的图像模型能够在相对小的数据集上训练。我们进行彻底的消融研究,并在包括动力学400和600,史诗厨房,东西的多个视频分类基准上实现最先进的结果,其中 - 基于深度3D卷积网络的现有方法表现出优先的方法。为了促进进一步的研究,我们在https://github.com/google-research/scenic/tree/main/scenic/projects/vivit发布代码
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We present in this paper a new architecture, named Convolutional vision Transformer (CvT), that improves Vision Transformer (ViT) in performance and efficiency by introducing convolutions into ViT to yield the best of both designs. This is accomplished through two primary modifications: a hierarchy of Transformers containing a new convolutional token embedding, and a convolutional Transformer block leveraging a convolutional projection. These changes introduce desirable properties of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) to the ViT architecture (i.e. shift, scale, and distortion invariance) while maintaining the merits of Transformers (i.e. dynamic attention, global context, and better generalization). We validate CvT by conducting extensive experiments, showing that this approach achieves state-of-the-art performance over other Vision Transformers and ResNets on ImageNet-1k, with fewer parameters and lower FLOPs. In addition, performance gains are maintained when pretrained on larger datasets (e.g. ImageNet-22k) and fine-tuned to downstream tasks. Pretrained on ImageNet-22k, our CvT-W24 obtains a top-1 accuracy of 87.7% on the ImageNet-1k val set. Finally, our results show that the positional encoding, a crucial component in existing Vision Transformers, can be safely removed in our model, simplifying the design for higher resolution vision tasks. Code will be released at https: //github.com/leoxiaobin/CvT.
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变压器是一种基于关注的编码器解码器架构,彻底改变了自然语言处理领域。灵感来自这一重大成就,最近在将变形式架构调整到计算机视觉(CV)领域的一些开创性作品,这已经证明了他们对各种简历任务的有效性。依靠竞争力的建模能力,与现代卷积神经网络相比在本文中,我们已经为三百不同的视觉变压器进行了全面的审查,用于三个基本的CV任务(分类,检测和分割),提出了根据其动机,结构和使用情况组织这些方法的分类。 。由于培训设置和面向任务的差异,我们还在不同的配置上进行了评估了这些方法,以便于易于和直观的比较而不是各种基准。此外,我们已经揭示了一系列必不可少的,但可能使变压器能够从众多架构中脱颖而出,例如松弛的高级语义嵌入,以弥合视觉和顺序变压器之间的差距。最后,提出了三个未来的未来研究方向进行进一步投资。
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