Dual Vision Transformer

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Title: Dual Vision Transformer
Authors: Yao, Ting, Li, Yehao, Pan, Yingwei, Wang, Yu, Zhang, Xiao-Ping, Mei, Tao
Publication Year: 2022
Subject Terms: Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
More Details: Prior works have proposed several strategies to reduce the computational cost of self-attention mechanism. Many of these works consider decomposing the self-attention procedure into regional and local feature extraction procedures that each incurs a much smaller computational complexity. However, regional information is typically only achieved at the expense of undesirable information lost owing to down-sampling. In this paper, we propose a novel Transformer architecture that aims to mitigate the cost issue, named Dual Vision Transformer (Dual-ViT). The new architecture incorporates a critical semantic pathway that can more efficiently compress token vectors into global semantics with reduced order of complexity. Such compressed global semantics then serve as useful prior information in learning finer pixel level details, through another constructed pixel pathway. The semantic pathway and pixel pathway are then integrated together and are jointly trained, spreading the enhanced self-attention information in parallel through both of the pathways. Dual-ViT is henceforth able to reduce the computational complexity without compromising much accuracy. We empirically demonstrate that Dual-ViT provides superior accuracy than SOTA Transformer architectures with reduced training complexity. Source code is available at \url{https://github.com/YehLi/ImageNetModel}.
Comment: Source code is available at \url{https://github.com/YehLi/ImageNetModel}
Document Type: Working Paper
Access URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2207.04976
Accession Number: edsarx.2207.04976
Database: arXiv
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