RAViT: Resolution-Adaptive Vision Transformer

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2602.24159v1
• Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2026 16:40:04 GMT
• Title: RAViT: Resolution-Adaptive Vision Transformer
• Authors: Martial Guidez, Stefan Duffner, Christophe Garcia,
• Abstract summary: Vision transformers have recently made a breakthrough in computer vision showing excellent performance in terms of precision for numerous applications.<n>We propose a novel framework for image classification called RAViT based on a multi-branch network that operates on several copies of the same image.<n>Our framework includes an early exit mechanism that makes our model adaptive and allows to choose the appropriate trade-off between accuracy and computational cost at run-time.
• Score: 1.5708535232255896
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Vision transformers have recently made a breakthrough in computer vision showing excellent performance in terms of precision for numerous applications. However, their computational cost is very high compared to alternative approaches such as Convolutional Neural Networks. To address this problem, we propose a novel framework for image classification called RAViT based on a multi-branch network that operates on several copies of the same image with different resolutions to reduce the computational cost while preserving the overall accuracy. Furthermore, our framework includes an early exit mechanism that makes our model adaptive and allows to choose the appropriate trade-off between accuracy and computational cost at run-time. For example in a two-branch architecture, the original image is first resized to reduce its resolution, then a prediction is performed on it using a first transformer and the resulting prediction is reused together with the original-size image to perform a final prediction on a second transformer with less computation than a classical Vision transformer architecture. The early-exit process allows the model to make a final prediction at intermediate branches, saving even more computation. We evaluated our approach on CIFAR-10, Tiny ImageNet, and ImageNet. We obtained an equivalent accuracy to the classical Vision transformer model with only around 70% of FLOPs.

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