Overview Of Vision Transformers Is All You Need
Last Updated on July 25, 2023 by Editorial Team
Author(s): Mustafa Gültekin
Originally published on Towards AI.
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In the history of transformers in deep learning, everything started with the famous paper ‘Attention Is All You Need’ in 2017. Google Brain team has published their research which changes the destiny of Natural Language Processing(NLP) by using Transformer.
The idea of using the same technique on images may have opened the door to a new era in vision technology…
Introduction
In this post, I have prepared a general overview of vision transformers from my research. During my learning process, I summarized some notes to answer these… Read the full blog for free on Medium.
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