arXiv Machine Learning By Zhe Feng, Longfei Liu, Wei Liu, Kai Chen, Jiangjiang Kong, Wei Zhou, Yifeng Qian, Dexiong Chen, Xuanlong Yu, Xi Shen

GTR: Gated Token Recurrence for Efficient Dense Prediction

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The paper introduces Gated Token Recurrence (GTR), a softmax‑free recurrent vision backbone that replaces global softmax attention with gated linear attention, alternating scan directions, and enhanced SwiGLU blocks. GTR is distilled from a DINOv3 teacher using only final‑layer patch‑token alignment, and achieves strong performance on COCO object detection (58.9 box AP) with very low latency (1.908 ms on an RTX 4090). The backbone also transfers to multiple dense prediction tasks and runs efficiently on edge hardware via a specialized CUDA operator and TensorRT deployment.

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