Introducing Convolutions to Vision Transformers
CvT This is an official implementation of CvT: Introducing Convolutions to Vision Transformers. We present a new architecture, named Convolutional vision Transformers (CvT), that improves Vision Transformers (ViT) in performance and efficienty by introducing convolutions into ViT to yield the best of both disignes. This is accomplished through two primary modifications: a hierarchy of Transformers containing a new convolutional token embedding, and a convolutional Transformer block leveraging a convolutional projection. These changes introduce desirable properties of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) […]
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