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Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers

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Re: Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers

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There's something that tickles me about this paper's title. The thought that everyone should know these three things. The idea of going to my neighbor who's a retired K-12 teacher and telling her about how adding MLP-based patch pre-processing layers improves Bert-like self-supervised training based on patch masking.

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There's something that tickles me about this paper's title. The thought that everyone should know these three things. The idea of going to my neighbor who's a retired K-12 teacher and telling her about how adding MLP-based patch pre-processing layers improves Bert-like self-supervised training based on patch masking.

Hey, when the AI powered T-rex is chasing you down you'll wish you paid attention that the vision transformers perception is based on movement!

Had to throw some Jurassic Park humor in here.

Re: Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers

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There's something that tickles me about this paper's title. The thought that everyone should know these three things. The idea of going to my neighbor who's a retired K-12 teacher and telling her about how adding MLP-based patch pre-processing layers improves Bert-like self-supervised training based on patch masking.

Clickbait titles are something of a tradition in this field by now. Some important paper titles include "One weird trick for parallelizing convolutional neural networks", "Attention is all you need", and "A picture is worth 16x16 words". Personally I still find it kind of irritating, but to each their own I guess.

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post #4

There's something that tickles me about this paper's title. The thought that everyone should know these three things. The idea of going to my neighbor who's a retired K-12 teacher and telling her about how adding MLP-based patch pre-processing layers improves Bert-like self-supervised training based on patch masking.

Clickbait titles are something of a tradition in this field by now. Some important paper titles include "One weird trick for parallelizing convolutional neural networks", "Attention is all you need", and "A picture is worth 16x16 words". Personally I still find it kind of irritating, but to each their own I guess.

Only the first one is clickbait in the style of blogs that incentivize you to click on the headline (i.e. the information gap), the last two are just fun puns.

Re: Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers

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I put this paper into 4o so i can check if it is relevant, so that you do not have to do this too here are the bullet points:

- Vision Transformers can be parallelized to reduce latency and improve optimization without sacrificing accuracy.

- Fine-tuning only the attention layers is often sufficient for adapting ViTs to new tasks or resolutions, saving compute and memory.

- Using MLP-based patch preprocessing improves performance in masked self-supervised learning by preserving patch independence.

Re: Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers

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There's something that tickles me about this paper's title. The thought that everyone should know these three things. The idea of going to my neighbor who's a retired K-12 teacher and telling her about how adding MLP-based patch pre-processing layers improves Bert-like self-supervised training based on patch masking.

Yeah, I guess today was the day that I learned I am not part of "everyone". I feel so left out now.

Re: Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clickbait titles are something of a tradition in this field by now. Some important paper titles include "One weird trick for parallelizing convolutional neural networks", "Attention is all you need", and "A picture is worth 16x16 words". Personally I still find it kind of irritating, but to each their own I guess.

Only the first one is clickbait in the style of blogs that incentivize you to click on the headline (i.e. the information gap), the last two are just fun puns.

Honestly I took the first one as making fun of that trope. Usually the “one weird trick to” ends in some tabloid-style thing like lose 15 pounds or find out if your husband is loyal. So “parallizing CNNs” is a joke, as if that’s something you’d see in a checkout isle.

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Clickbait titles are something of a tradition in this field by now. Some important paper titles include "One weird trick for parallelizing convolutional neural networks", "Attention is all you need", and "A picture is worth 16x16 words". Personally I still find it kind of irritating, but to each their own I guess.

Only the first one is clickbait in the style of blogs that incentivize you to click on the headline (i.e. the information gap), the last two are just fun puns.

In what sense is "Attention is all you need" a pun?

Re: Three things everyone should know about Vision Transformers

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post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Only the first one is clickbait in the style of blogs that incentivize you to click on the headline (i.e. the information gap), the last two are just fun puns.

In what sense is "Attention is all you need" a pun?

It's a reference to the lyric "love is all you need" from the song "All You Need Is Love" by the Beatles, and it uses a faux-synonym with a different meaning.
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