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A MetaFormer vision model using a random matrix to mix tokens, called RandFormer, reaches over 81% accuracy, beating the identity-mapping IdentityFormer.
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What the paper says, word for word
“When specifying the token mixer as even a random matrix to mix tokens, the resulting model RandFormer yields an accuracy of >81%, outperforming IdentityFormer.”
From Yu et al. (2023), arXiv 2210.13452. Quote verified against the arXiv abstract on 19 Oct 2026.
token mixer:
The component of a MetaFormer model that combines information across different tokens, such as image patches, for example through attention or convolution.
RandFormer:
A MetaFormer model in which the token mixer is a random matrix that mixes the tokens.
IdentityFormer:
A MetaFormer model whose token mixer is an identity mapping, so tokens pass through unchanged and are not mixed.
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The paper
MetaFormer Baselines for Vision
Weihao Yu, Chenyang Si, Pan Zhou, Mi Luo, Yichen Zhou, Jiashi Feng, Shuicheng Yan and Xinchao Wang
IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · published 2023 · arXiv 2210.13452
The paper builds baseline MetaFormer vision models with basic token mixers and reports that they perform strongly, with CAFormer reaching 85.5% on ImageNet-1K without external data or distillation.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 19 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
A token mixer is the part of the model that lets different image patches exchange information. The claim says that even a fixed random mixing matrix gives better accuracy than no mixing at all (identity mapping). The authors use this to argue that the overall MetaFormer structure matters a great deal, and that new token mixers can be tried with confidence in that structure.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 19 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as arXiv publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
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What the authors did
The authors built several baseline models within the MetaFormer architecture, each using a simple or common token mixer, and compared their accuracy on ImageNet-1K, an image classification benchmark.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
IdentityFormer, which uses identity mapping as its token mixer, achieves over 80% accuracy on ImageNet-1K.
RandFormer, which mixes tokens with a random matrix, achieves over 81% accuracy, outperforming IdentityFormer.
ConvFormer outperforms ConvNeXt, and CAFormer reaches 85.5% accuracy at 224x224 resolution under normal supervised training without external data or distillation.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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"When specifying the token mixer as even a random matrix to mix tokens, the resulting model RandFormer yields an accuracy of >81%, outperforming IdentityFormer."
(Yu et al., IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 2023)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): A MetaFormer vision model using a random matrix to mix tokens, called RandFormer, reaches over 81% accuracy, beating the identity-mapping IdentityFormer.
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if an independently trained RandFormer model achieves a top‑1 ImageNet-1K accuracy of 81% or lower.
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It states the method the paper reports: “The test uses the same MetaFormer architecture with a random‑matrix token mixer trained on ImageNet‑1K under the protocol described in the paper”.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Weihao Yu, Chenyang Si, Pan Zhou and 5 others (2023), MetaFormer Baselines for Vision, IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. Ecdysis, claim ext:95a14e34fa392f86. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:95a14e34fa392f86
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