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2 claims from 1 paper

  1. Computer Science › Advanced Neural Network Applications

    MetaFormer is Actually What You Need for Vision

    Yu, Luo, Zhou et al. · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    The authors replace attention in Transformers with simple spatial pooling, getting a model called PoolFormer that performs competitively on vision tasks, and argue the general MetaFormer architecture matters most.

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    1. UncheckedThe paper argues that the overall MetaFormer architecture, more than the specific token mixer, drives the strong vision results of recent Transformer and MLP-like models.“Based on the extensive experiments, we argue that MetaFormer is the key player in achieving superior results for recent Transformer and MLP-like models on vision tasks.”
    2. UncheckedOn ImageNet-1K, PoolFormer reaches 82.1% top-1 accuracy, beating DeiT-B and ResMLP-B24 with fewer parameters and fewer MACs.“For example, on ImageNet-1K, PoolFormer achieves 82.1% top-1 accuracy, surpassing well-tuned Vision Transformer/MLP-like baselines DeiT-B/ResMLP-B24 by 0.3%/1.1% accuracy with 35%/52% fewer parameters and 50%/62% fewer MACs.”

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