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contents Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable success on large-scale datasets, but their performance on smaller datasets often falls short of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This paper explores the design and optimization of Tiny ViTs for small datasets, using CIFAR-10 as a benchmark. We systematically evaluate the impact of data augmentation, patch token initialization, low-rank compression, and multi-class token strategies on model performance. Our experiments reveal that low-rank compression of queries in Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) incurs minimal performance loss, indicating redundancy in ViTs. Additionally, introducing multiple CLS tokens improves global representation capacity, boosting accuracy. These findings provide a comprehensive framework for optimizing Tiny ViTs, offering practical insights for efficient and effective designs. Code is available at https://github.com/erow/PoorViTs.
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spellingShingle Powerful Design of Small Vision Transformer on CIFAR10
Wu, Gent
Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable success on large-scale datasets, but their performance on smaller datasets often falls short of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). This paper explores the design and optimization of Tiny ViTs for small datasets, using CIFAR-10 as a benchmark. We systematically evaluate the impact of data augmentation, patch token initialization, low-rank compression, and multi-class token strategies on model performance. Our experiments reveal that low-rank compression of queries in Multi-Head Latent Attention (MLA) incurs minimal performance loss, indicating redundancy in ViTs. Additionally, introducing multiple CLS tokens improves global representation capacity, boosting accuracy. These findings provide a comprehensive framework for optimizing Tiny ViTs, offering practical insights for efficient and effective designs. Code is available at https://github.com/erow/PoorViTs.
title Powerful Design of Small Vision Transformer on CIFAR10
topic Machine Learning
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06220