Vision Conformer: Incorporating Convolutions into Vision Transformer Layers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.13991v1
• Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2023 07:27:44 GMT
• Title: Vision Conformer: Incorporating Convolutions into Vision Transformer Layers
• Authors: Brian Kenji Iwana, Akihiro Kusuda
• Abstract summary: Vision Transformers (ViT) adapt transformers for image recognition tasks. One issue with ViT is the lack of inductive bias toward image structures. We propose the use of convolutional layers within ViT.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Transformers are popular neural network models that use layers of self-attention and fully-connected nodes with embedded tokens. Vision Transformers (ViT) adapt transformers for image recognition tasks. In order to do this, the images are split into patches and used as tokens. One issue with ViT is the lack of inductive bias toward image structures. Because ViT was adapted for image data from language modeling, the network does not explicitly handle issues such as local translations, pixel information, and information loss in the structures and features shared by multiple patches. Conversely, Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) incorporate this information. Thus, in this paper, we propose the use of convolutional layers within ViT. Specifically, we propose a model called a Vision Conformer (ViC) which replaces the Multi-Layer Perceptron (MLP) in a ViT layer with a CNN. In addition, to use the CNN, we proposed to reconstruct the image data after the self-attention in a reverse embedding layer. Through the evaluation, we demonstrate that the proposed convolutions help improve the classification ability of ViT.

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