Cited by 731Advanced Neural Network ApplicationsDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot LearningVisual Attention and Saliency Detection

Mobile-Former: Bridging MobileNet and Transformer

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Chen, Yinpeng, Dai, Xiyang, Chen, Dongdong, Liu, Mengchen, Dong, Xiaoyi, Yuan, Lu, Liu, Zicheng·2022·2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

Abstract

We present Mobile-Former, a parallel design of MobileNet and transformer with a two-way bridge in between. This structure leverages the advantages of MobileNet at local processing and transformer at global interaction. And the bridge enables bidirectional fusion of local and global features. Different from recent works on vision transformer, the transformer in Mobile-Former contains very few tokens (e.g. 6 or fewer tokens) that are randomly initialized to learn global priors, resulting in low computational cost. Combining with the proposed light-weight cross attention to model the bridge, Mobile-Former is not only computationally efficient, but also has more representation power. It outperforms MobileNetV3 at low FLOP regime from 25M to 500M FLOPs on ImageNet classification. For instance, Mobile-Former achieves 77.9% top-1 accuracy at 294M FLOPs, gaining 1.3% over MobileNetV3 but saving 17% of computations. When transferring to object detection, Mobile-Former outperforms MobileNetV3 by 8.6 AP in RetinaNet framework. Furthermore, we build an efficient end-to-end detector by replacing backbone, encoder and decoder in DETR with Mobile-Former, which outperforms DETR by 1.3 AP but saves 52% of computational cost and 36% of parameters. Code will be released at https://github.com/aaboys/mobileformer.

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  • Mobile-former exceeds MobileNetV3 accuracy by 1.3 percentage points on ImageNet.

    “exceeds MobileNetV3 accuracy by 1.3 percentage points on the ImageNet dataset.”

    From A Survey of Techniques for Optimizing Transformer Inference (2023) · cites this paper as [178]

  • Mobile-former outperforms DETR by 1.1 AP on object detection.

    “The network also outperforms DETR [8] by 1.1 AP on the object detection task.”

    From A Survey of Techniques for Optimizing Transformer Inference (2023) · cites this paper as [178]

  • Mobile-former employs parallel MobileNetV2 and Transformer modules with two-way bridges.

    “The Mobile-former network [178] employs parallel MobileNetV2 and Transformer modules with twoway bridges (Mobile → Former and Mobile ← Former).”

    From A Survey of Techniques for Optimizing Transformer Inference (2023) · cites this paper as [178]

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Authors
Chen, Y., Dai, X., Chen, D., Liu, M., Dong, X., Yuan, L., & Liu, Z.
Affiliations
  • Microsoft (United States) (US)
  • University of Science and Technology of China (CN)
Venue
2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2022-06
Pages
5260-5269
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3190492058
Cited by
731
References
55
Citations by year
2026: 71 · 2025: 196 · 2024: 238 · 2023: 178 · 2022: 44 · 2021: 4
FWCI
59.48
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
Keywords
MobileNet, vision transformer, global-local feature fusion, cross-attention, DETR, RetinaNet, ImageNet classification

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