arXiv:2606. 27449v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-head attention conventionally partitions the hidden dimension equally across all heads at every layer, enforcing an identical representational subspace dimension (dh = dmodel/h) throughout the models depth.
By Shubham Aggarwal
arXiv:2606. 04032v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transformers have become the standard solution for various AI tasks, with the query, key, and value (QKV) attention formulation playing a central role.
By Ali Kayyam, Anusha Madan Gopal, M Anthony Lewis
The paper introduces Semantic Head Specialization (SHS), a phenomenon where Vision Transformer (ViT) attention heads specialize as either object- or background-focused, most evident under full attention. It proposes the SHS-Index to quantify this specialization, demonstrating its ability to distinguish full-attention from chunk-window ViTs and its strong correlation with downstream benchmark performance. Leveraging insights into window interaction, token serialization, and local softmax allocation, the authors design Ariadne Attention, a hybrid attention mechanism that matches full-attention performance on 22 image and video tasks while reducing attention compute by 6.5×.
By Chenhong He, Lei Li, Shicheng Li, Hanglong Lv, Lingpeng Kong, Qi Liu, Tong Yang, Shuhuai Ren
arXiv:2404.06135v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The Transformer architecture has achieved remarkable success in natural language processing and high-level vision tasks over the past few years. Ho...
By Pin-Hung Kuo, Jinshan Pan, Shao-Yi Chien, Ming-Hsuan Yang
arXiv:2608. 13141v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Transformers (ViTs) demonstrate exceptional performance in computer vision but suffer from large parameter counts and quadratic computational complexity, severely limiting their deployment on resource-constrained edge hardware.
By Junseo Kim, Uraz Odyurt, Amirreza Yousefzadeh
arXiv:2609.23733v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Feed-forward visual geometry models such as the Visual Geometry Grounded Transformer (VGGT) have recently enabled direct 3D reconstruction from multi-v...
By Abteen Arab, Guile Wu, Chengjie Huang, Dongfeng Bai
arXiv:2608.23921v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent Vision-Language Models encode high-resolution images into long visual token sequences, incurring prohibitive prefill costs. To compress them, ex...
By Yuanhao Sun, Huawei Ji, Yuan Jin, Cheng Deng, Luoyi Fu, Xinbing Wang
arXiv:2607. 00774v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent recursive Transformer studies have primarily reused shared parameters across computation steps to construct compact, parameter-efficient models.
By Sang In Lee, Jihun Park
arXiv:2607. 02612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision Transformers achieve strong image classification accuracy but process all image regions with nearly the same computation, even when many regions are redundant or uninformative.
By Aravind Pradeep, Samira Nazari, Mahdi Taheri, Christian Herglotz
arXiv:2602. 21196v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Efficiently processing long sequences with Transformer models usually requires splitting the computations across accelerators via context parallelism.
By Ravi Ghadia, Maksim Abraham, Sergei Vorobyov, Max Ryabinin
arXiv:2603.26380v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: The attention mechanism has been the core component in modern transformer architectures. However, the computation of standard full attention scales...
By Yusheng Zhao, Hourun Li, Bohan Wu, Yichun Yin, Lifeng Shang, Jingyang Yuan, Meng Zhang, Ming Zhang
arXiv:2607. 03612v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Feed-forward 3D reconstruction (F3R) transformers have recently achieved remarkable success.
By Jianing Deng, Yuanzhe Li, Jialu Wang, Song Wang, Tianlong Chen, Huanrui Yang, Jingtong Hu