Summary of Layershuffle: Enhancing Robustness in Vision Transformers by Randomizing Layer Execution Order, By Matthias Freiberger et al.
LayerShuffle: Enhancing Robustness in Vision Transformers by Randomizing Layer Execution Order
by Matthias Freiberger, Peter Kun, Anders Sundnes Løvlie, Sebastian Risi
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper proposes novel training approaches for vision transformers to achieve robustness against layer shuffling and pruning at test time. The key innovation is randomizing the execution order of attention modules during training, enabling the models to adapt to arbitrary layer orders at inference. The proposed methods result in a 20% accuracy reduction compared to the original model size, but demonstrate graceful performance decline when layers are pruned at test time. The paper analyzes feature representations and layer contributions, showing that layers learn distinct roles based on their position in the network. Code is available for replication. This work addresses important challenges for distributed neural networks and has implications for applications where layer execution order cannot be guaranteed. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you have a special kind of computer program called an artificial neural network. These programs are great at recognizing pictures, but they’re not very good at dealing with unexpected changes in how they work. That’s a problem because sometimes these programs might need to work on different computers or devices, and things can get mixed up. In this paper, scientists developed new ways to train special types of neural networks called vision transformers. They did this by randomly switching the order in which the network looks at pictures during training. This helps the network learn to be more flexible and adapt to unexpected changes. The results are promising, showing that these networks can still work well even if some parts get mixed up or removed. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Inference » Neural network » Pruning
