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EfficientViT: Memory Efficient Vision Transformer with Cascaded Group Attention
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Vision transformers have shown great success due to their high model capabilities. However, their remarkable performance is accompanied by heavy computation costs, which makes them unsuitable for real-time applications. In this paper, we propose a family of high-speed vision transformers named Efficient ViT. We find that the speed of existing transformer models is commonly bounded by memory inefficient operations, especially the tensor reshaping and element-wise functions in MHSA. Therefore, we design a new building block with a sandwich layout, i.e., using a single memory-bound MHSA between efficient FFN layers, which improves memory efficiency while enhancing channel communication. Moreover, we discover that the attention maps share high similarities across heads, leading to computational redundancy. To address this, we present a cascaded group attention module feeding attention heads with different splits of the full feature, which not only saves computation cost but also improves attention diversity. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate EfficientViT outperforms existing efficient models, striking a good trade-off between speed and accuracy. For instance, our EfficientViT-M5 surpasses MobileNetV3-Large by 1.9% in accuracy, while getting 40.4% and 45.2% higher throughput on Nvidia V100 GPU and Intel Xeon CPU, respectively. Compared to the recent efficient model MobileViT-XXS, EfficientViT-M2 achieves 1.8% superior accuracy, while running$5.8\times/3.7\times$faster on the GPU/CPU, and$7.4\times faster$when converted to ONNX format. Code and models are available at here.
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- Authors
- Liu, X., Peng, H., Zheng, N., Yang, Y., Hu, H., & Yuan, Y.
- Affiliations
- Chinese University of Hong Kong (HK)
- Microsoft (United States) (US)
- Venue
- 2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
- Publisher
- IEEE
- Published
- 2023-06
- Pages
- 14420-14430
- ISSN
- 1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4386076539
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- 9a83aeadc8db65fb6da39ec977360541cddaff5c
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- Funders
- Innovation and Technology Commission (ITS/100/20)
- Innovation and Technology Fund
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Visual Attention and Saliency Detection
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
- Keywords
- EfficientViT, multi-head self-attention, channel communication, real-time image classification, computational efficiency
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