PVT v2: Improved baselines with pyramid vision transformer

Transformers have recently lead to encouraging progress in computer vision. We hope this work will facilitate advanced transformer research in computer vision.

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• 1 In this work, we present new baselines by improving the original Pyramid Vision Transformer (PVT v1) by adding three designs: (i) a linear complexity attention layer, (ii) an overlapping patch embedding, and (iii) a convolutional feed-forward network.
• 2 With these modifications, PVT v2 reduces the computational complexity of PVT v1 to linearity and provides significant improvements on fundamental vision tasks such as classification, detection, and segmentation.
• 3 In particular, PVT v2 achieves comparable or better performance than recent work such as the Swin transformer.

This research advances how AI systems learn, reason, and solve problems — with direct implications for automation and scientific discovery.

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