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Technology & AIJul 14, 2026

Inhibited Self-Attention: Sharpening Focus in Vision Transformers

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in computer vision tasks.

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in computer vision tasks. However, their self-attention mechanism often diffuses focus across background regions, relying on spurious correlations rather than object-relevant cues. Inspired by inhibitory…

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