CoAtNet: Marrying Convolution and Attention for All Data Sizes
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Transformers have attracted increasing interests in computer vision, but they still fall behind state-of-the-art convolutional networks. In this work, we show that while Transformers tend to have larger model capacity, their generalization can be worse than convolutional networks due to the lack of the right inductive bias. To effectively combine the strengths from both architectures, we present CoAtNets(pronounced "coat" nets), a family of hybrid models built from two key insights:(1) depthwise Convolution and self-Attention can be naturally unified via simple relative attention; (2) vertically stacking convolution layers and attention layers in a principled way is surprisingly effective in improving generalization, capacity and efficiency. Experiments show that our CoAtNets achieve state-of-the-art performance under different resource constraints across various datasets. For example, CoAtNet achieves 86.0 data, outperforming prior arts of both convolutional networks and Transformers. Notably, when pre-trained with 13M images fromImageNet-21K, our CoAtNet achieves 88.56 from JFT while using 23x less data.
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