AttentionViG: Cross-Attention-Based Dynamic Neighbor Aggregation in Vision GNNs

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Autori principali: Gedik, Hakan Emre, Martin, Andrew, Munir, Mustafa, Baser, Oguzhan, Marculescu, Radu, Chinchali, Sandeep P., Bovik, Alan C.
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author Gedik, Hakan Emre
Martin, Andrew
Munir, Mustafa
Baser, Oguzhan
Marculescu, Radu
Chinchali, Sandeep P.
Bovik, Alan C.
author_facet Gedik, Hakan Emre
Martin, Andrew
Munir, Mustafa
Baser, Oguzhan
Marculescu, Radu
Chinchali, Sandeep P.
Bovik, Alan C.
contents Vision Graph Neural Networks (ViGs) have demonstrated promising performance in image recognition tasks against Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs). An essential part of the ViG framework is the node-neighbor feature aggregation method. Although various graph convolution methods, such as Max-Relative, EdgeConv, GIN, and GraphSAGE, have been explored, a versatile aggregation method that effectively captures complex node-neighbor relationships without requiring architecture-specific refinements is needed. To address this gap, we propose a cross-attention-based aggregation method in which the query projections come from the node, while the key projections come from its neighbors. Additionally, we introduce a novel architecture called AttentionViG that uses the proposed cross-attention aggregation scheme to conduct non-local message passing. We evaluated the image recognition performance of AttentionViG on the ImageNet-1K benchmark, where it achieved SOTA performance. Additionally, we assessed its transferability to downstream tasks, including object detection and instance segmentation on MS COCO 2017, as well as semantic segmentation on ADE20K. Our results demonstrate that the proposed method not only achieves strong performance, but also maintains efficiency, delivering competitive accuracy with comparable FLOPs to prior vision GNN architectures.
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spellingShingle AttentionViG: Cross-Attention-Based Dynamic Neighbor Aggregation in Vision GNNs
Gedik, Hakan Emre
Martin, Andrew
Munir, Mustafa
Baser, Oguzhan
Marculescu, Radu
Chinchali, Sandeep P.
Bovik, Alan C.
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
Vision Graph Neural Networks (ViGs) have demonstrated promising performance in image recognition tasks against Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) and Vision Transformers (ViTs). An essential part of the ViG framework is the node-neighbor feature aggregation method. Although various graph convolution methods, such as Max-Relative, EdgeConv, GIN, and GraphSAGE, have been explored, a versatile aggregation method that effectively captures complex node-neighbor relationships without requiring architecture-specific refinements is needed. To address this gap, we propose a cross-attention-based aggregation method in which the query projections come from the node, while the key projections come from its neighbors. Additionally, we introduce a novel architecture called AttentionViG that uses the proposed cross-attention aggregation scheme to conduct non-local message passing. We evaluated the image recognition performance of AttentionViG on the ImageNet-1K benchmark, where it achieved SOTA performance. Additionally, we assessed its transferability to downstream tasks, including object detection and instance segmentation on MS COCO 2017, as well as semantic segmentation on ADE20K. Our results demonstrate that the proposed method not only achieves strong performance, but also maintains efficiency, delivering competitive accuracy with comparable FLOPs to prior vision GNN architectures.
title AttentionViG: Cross-Attention-Based Dynamic Neighbor Aggregation in Vision GNNs
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Image and Video Processing
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25570