arXiv Machine Learning By Md Farhadul Islam, Ishan Thakkar, J. Todd Hastings

HiRo: A Compact Four-Directional Hierarchical Reservoir Token-Mixer for Efficient Image Classification

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arXiv:2606. 15151v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent image classification models must balance local feature modeling, cross-window interaction, and parameter efficiency.

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