Vision Transformers, Explained

Vision Transformers Explained Series

A Full Walk-Through of Vision Transformers in PyTorch

Since their introduction in 2017 with Attention is All You Need¹, transformers have established themselves as the state of the art for natural language processing (NLP). In 2021, An Image is Worth 16x16 Words² successfully adapted transformers for computer vision tasks. Since then, numerous transformer-based architectures have been proposed for computer vision.

This article walks through the Vision Transformer (ViT) as laid out in An Image …

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