Vision Transformers Don't Need Trained Registers

NeurIPSSpotlight2025

Authors
Nicholas Jiang, Amil Dravid, Alexei A Efros, Yossi Gandelsman
Venue
NeurIPS 2025
Track
Spotlight

TL;DR

We investigate the mechanism underlying a previously identified phenomenon in Vision Transformers -- the emergence of high-norm tokens that lead to noisy attention maps (Darcet et al…

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Topics

transformer attention

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