In this paper, we propose a discrete roto-reflection group equivariant vision transformer with convolutional attention. Roto-reflection equivariant networks preserve the rotational, flip and positional symmetry in feature maps, making them useful for tasks where orientation of the inputs is relevant to the model outputs.
arXiv:2505. 21736v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Translation equivariance is a central reason convolutional neural networks have been successful in computer vision.
By Siqi Fang, Zachary Schlamowitz, Andrew Bennecke, Daniel J. Tward
arXiv:2606. 27864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision transformers have become a dominant architecture for visual recognition.
By T\={\i}kun \^Ong, Georg B\"okman
arXiv:2607. 04262v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Vision Transformer (ViT) for image classification exploit a dense grid of pixels containing redundant information.
By Sarabeshwar Balaji, Shubham Mohanty, Akash Anil
arXiv:2505. 15441v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Natural images exhibit strong geometric regularities: local structures, such as edges, corners, and textures, appear in many orientations and mirror configurations.
By David Nordstr\"om, Johan Edstedt, Fredrik Kahl, Georg B\"okman
Vision Transformers underperform convolutional networks when training data is scarce, and distilling convolutional inductive biases from a CNN teacher is an effective remedy that leaves the deployed model unchanged. General-purpose feature distillation, however, transfers little in this setting.