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Life regression based patch slimming for vision transformers

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Jiawei Chen
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Lin Chen
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Yang Jiang
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Tianqi Shi
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Lechao Cheng
冯尊磊 (Zunlei Feng) *
宋明黎 (Mingli Song)
DOI:10.1016/j.neunet.2024.106340delete
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Vision transformers have achieved remarkable success in computer vision tasks by using multi -head selfattention modules to capture long-range dependencies within images. However, the high inference computation cost poses a new challenge. Several methods have been proposed to address this problem, mainly by slimming patches. In the inference stage, these methods classify patches into two classes, one to keep and the other to discard in multiple layers. This approach results in additional computation at every layer where patches are discarded, which hinders inference acceleration. In this study, we tackle the patch slimming problem from a different perspective by proposing a life regression module that determines the lifespan of each image patch in one go. During inference, the patch is discarded once the current layer index exceeds its life. Our proposed method avoids additional computation and parameters in multiple layers to enhance inference speed while maintaining competitive performance. Additionally, our approach 1 requires fewer training epochs than other patch slimming methods.
Keywords:
Vision transformer
Acceleration
Model optimization
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