In a nutshellVision Transformer treats an image as a sequence of patches. With large-scale pretraining, this straightforward adaptation of a Transformer performs strongly on image recognition.
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Alexey Dosovitskiy
Alexey Dosovitskiy is a credited coauthor of “An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale”. Explore the papers, research findings, and collaborators represented in this collection.
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An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
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An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
Images are divided into fixed-size patches and encoded as sequences. The model is pretrained on large datasets and fine-tuned on image classification tasks.
- Image patches can serve as the input tokens of a Transformer.
- Large-scale pretraining is central to the reported performance.
- The learned representations transfer to several image recognition benchmarks.
Reading context: The strong results depend on the training-data regime. They should not be read as a universal advantage over convolutional models on small datasets.
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