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PaperICLR 2021 (arXiv 2020) · 2020

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

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Vision Transformer — a pure-transformer image classification backbone that treats an image as a sequence of fixed-size patches: split RGB image into.

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