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Research paper

An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale

At a glance

The Vision Transformer recognizes images by treating patches like words in a sequence.

In one paragraph

Introduced the Vision Transformer, treating image patches like words in a sequence, showing that Transformers trained on large datasets could achieve strong image recognition results.

Authors 12

  1. Alexey Dosovitskiy
  2. Lucas Beyer
  3. Alexander Kolesnikov
  4. Dirk Weissenborn
  5. Xiaohua Zhai
  6. Thomas Unterthiner
  7. Mostafa Dehghani
  8. Matthias Minderer
  9. Georg Heigold
  10. Sylvain Gelly
  11. Jakob Uszkoreit
  12. Neil Houlsby