2021

MLP-Mixer: An all-MLP Architecture for Vision

Tolstikhin, Ilya, Houlsby, Neil, Kolesnikov, Alexander et al.

Understand

Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) are the go-to model for computer vision.

  • Recently, attention-based networks, such as the Vision Transformer, have also become popular.
  • In this paper we show that while convolutions and attention are both sufficient for good performance, neither of them are necessary.
  • We present MLP-Mixer, an architecture based exclusively on multi-layer perceptrons (MLPs).

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