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# Visual Attention Network
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> [Visual Attention Network](https://arxiv.org/pdf/2202.09741v2.pdf)
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## Abstract
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While originally designed for natural language processing (NLP) tasks, the self-attention mechanism has recently taken various computer vision areas by storm. However, the 2D nature of images brings three challenges for applying self-attention in computer vision. (1) Treating images as 1D sequences neglects their 2D structures. (2) The quadratic complexity is too expensive for high-resolution images. (3) It only captures spatial adaptability but ignores channel adaptability. In this paper, we propose a novel large kernel attention (LKA) module to enable self-adaptive and long-range correlations in self-attention while avoiding the above issues. We further introduce a novel neural network based on LKA, namely Visual Attention Network (VAN). While extremely simple and efficient, VAN outperforms the state-of-the-art vision transformers and convolutional neural networks with a large margin in extensive experiments, including image classification, object detection, semantic segmentation, instance segmentation, etc.
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<div align=center>
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<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/24734142/157409411-2f622ba7-553c-4702-91be-eba03f9ea04f.png" width="80%"/>
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</div>
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## Results and models
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### ImageNet-1k
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| Model | Pretrain | resolution | Params(M) | Flops(G) | Top-1 (%) | Top-5 (%) | Config | Download |
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|:---------:|:------------:|:-----------:|:---------:|:---------:|:---------:|:---------:|:------:|:--------:|
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| VAN-T\* | From scratch | 224x224 | 4.11 | 0.88 | 75.41 | 93.02 | [config](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmclassification/blob/master/configs/van/van-tiny_8xb128_in1k.py) | [model](https://download.openmmlab.com/mmclassification/v0/van/van-tiny_8xb128_in1k_20220427-8ac0feec.pth) |
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| VAN-S\* | From scratch | 224x224 | 13.86 | 2.52 | 81.01 | 95.63 | [config](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmclassification/blob/master/configs/van/van-small_8xb128_in1k.py) | [model](https://download.openmmlab.com/mmclassification/v0/van/van-small_8xb128_in1k_20220427-bd6a9edd.pth) |
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| VAN-B\* | From scratch | 224x224 | 26.58 | 5.03 | 82.80 | 96.21 | [config](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmclassification/blob/master/configs/van/van-base_8xb128_in1k.py) | [model](https://download.openmmlab.com/mmclassification/v0/van/van-base_8xb128_in1k_20220427-5275471d.pth) |
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| VAN-L\* | From scratch | 224x224 | 44.77 | 8.99 | 83.86 | 96.73 | [config](https://github.com/open-mmlab/mmclassification/blob/master/configs/van/van-large_8xb128_in1k.py) | [model](https://download.openmmlab.com/mmclassification/v0/van/van-large_8xb128_in1k_20220427-56159105.pth) |
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*Models with \* are converted from [the official repo](https://github.com/Visual-Attention-Network/VAN-Classification). The config files of these models are only for validation. We don't ensure these config files' training accuracy and welcome you to contribute your reproduction results.
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## Citation
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```
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@article{guo2022visual,
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title={Visual Attention Network},
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author={Guo, Meng-Hao and Lu, Cheng-Ze and Liu, Zheng-Ning and Cheng, Ming-Ming and Hu, Shi-Min},
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journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2202.09741},
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year={2022}
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}
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```
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