Inceptive
Google
Intel
Lomonosov Moscow State University
Caiming XiongCo-founder · RecursiveResearcher↗
Researcher · Founder
Alexey Dosovitskiy
Career & education
Current role
RecursiveJan 2026-presentCo-founder
RecursiveJan 2026-presentPreviously
Education
Work and education history is primarily focused on AI-relevant roles and may not be comprehensive.
Citation Trend
Total citations to scholarly work, including research papers, technical reports, books and theses, as recorded by Google Scholar. Each point is a dated snapshot.
citations184,507As of Nov 1, '26
citations+4,798Since last snapshot, Oct 1, '26
Selected contributions
An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale
With Lucas Beyer, Alexander Kolesnikov, Dirk Weissenborn, Xiaohua Zhai, Thomas Unterthiner, Mostafa Dehghani, Matthias Minderer and others ·The Vision Transformer recognizes images by treating patches like words in a sequence.
References
- An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scalearxiv.org
Original Vision Transformer paper lists Dosovitskiy first and demonstrates strong image classification using image patches and a pure Transformer rather than convolutional networks.
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