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ACSAN: All-Convolutional Self-Attention Network Integrating Convolutional Operations with Vision Transformer
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摘要
In the past few years, Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved excellent performance in the field of computer vision. However, there still some problems remain. For instance, ViTs heavily rely on large-scale training data since they simply contain a large number of trainable parameters, which slows down their learning efficiency and limits their applicability in resource-constrained scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning model, namely All-Convolutional Self-Attention Network (ACSAN), which applies convolution operations to replace fully-connected matrices multiplications in the ViT framework. To implement ACSAN, we firstly design Dynamic Convolutional Self-Attention (DCSA) as the basic module, which employs multi-scale dilated convolutions to generate Query, Key, and Value. We defined spatial self-attention and channel self-attention to generate attention features respectively. The two attention features are finally merged as the output of the DCSA module. Based on DCSA, we then construct the basic ACSAN block. Comparing with ViT, we use DCSA to replace the regular self-attention operations, and use convolution layers to replace MLPs. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we train ACSAN on three widely-used image classification databases, i.e. CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and ImageNet-1k, from scratch. Experimental results show that ACSAN achieves excellent classification accuracy comparing with standard ViT with comparable or fewer parameters, as well as other state-of-the-art methods. Ablation studies verify that each component contributes positively to the final performance.
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ACSAN: All-Convolutional Self-Attention Network Integrating Convolutional Operations with Vision Transformer
In the past few years, Vision Transformer (ViT) has achieved excellent performance in the field of computer vision. However, there still some problems remain. For instance, ViTs heavily rely on large-scale training data since they simply contain a large number of trainable parameters, which slows down their learning efficiency and limits their applicability in resource-constrained scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel deep learning model, namely All-Convolutional Self-Attention Network (ACSAN), which applies convolution operations to replace fully-connected matrices multiplications in the ViT framework. To implement ACSAN, we firstly design Dynamic Convolutional Self-Attention (DCSA) as the basic module, which employs multi-scale dilated convolutions to generate Query, Key, and Value. We defined spatial self-attention and channel self-attention to generate attention features respectively. The two attention features are finally merged as the output of the DCSA module. Based on DCSA, we then construct the basic ACSAN block. Comparing with ViT, we use DCSA to replace the regular self-attention operations, and use convolution layers to replace MLPs. To evaluate the performance of the proposed method, we train ACSAN on three widely-used image classification databases, i.e. CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100 and ImageNet-1k, from scratch. Experimental results show that ACSAN achieves excellent classification accuracy comparing with standard ViT with comparable or fewer parameters, as well as other state-of-the-art methods. Ablation studies verify that each component contributes positively to the final performance.
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