What Are Vision Transformers And How Are They Important For General Purpose Learning?

Exploring The Concept and Experimenting with The Example Applications

J. Rafid Siddiqui, PhD
Towards Data Science
7 min readMay 23, 2022

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Figure 1: Vision Transformers in Action (Image by Author)

There has been a significant advancement in the field of AI in the past several years. Generative models have been the most successful in the vision domain however, they are built for highly specialized…

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