Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers

by reqoon 4/24/2025, 3:53 PMwith 17 comments

by Centigonalon 4/24/2025, 4:14 PM

There's something that tickles me about this paper's title. The thought that everyone should know these three things. The idea of going to my neighbor who's a retired K-12 teacher and telling her about how adding MLP-based patch pre-processing layers improves Bert-like self-supervised training based on patch masking.

by i5heuon 4/24/2025, 4:38 PM

I put this paper into 4o so i can check if it is relevant, so that you do not have to do this too here are the bullet points:

- Vision Transformers can be parallelized to reduce latency and improve optimization without sacrificing accuracy.

- Fine-tuning only the attention layers is often sufficient for adapting ViTs to new tasks or resolutions, saving compute and memory.

- Using MLP-based patch preprocessing improves performance in masked self-supervised learning by preserving patch independence.