arXiv:2603.00486cs.CV2026-03中稿 · CVPR被引 1

随机分组比精心设计的分组策略更有效,且适用广泛。

Random Wins All: Rethinking Grouping Strategies for Vision Tokens

  • 用随机方式分组视觉令牌,简单快速且性能优异。
  • 在多个任务中优于传统分组方法,检测任务提升更明显。
  • 只需满足四个关键条件,无需复杂设计即可高效工作。

自视觉变换器引入以来,其二次复杂度始终是研究重点。主流方法通过分组令牌,在组内进行自注意力计算或聚合为单个令牌来缓解问题。为此,学者们提出了多种精细设计的分组策略。本文提出疑问:这些复杂策略是否必要?是否存在更简单统一的替代方案?我们提出随机分组策略,仅需简单快速地随机划分视觉令牌。在多个基线模型上验证,随机分组几乎超越所有现有方法;迁移至目标检测等下游任务时优势更为显著。我们从多个角度分析其有效性,识别出分组设计的关键要素:位置信息、头特征多样性、全局感受野和固定分组模式。结果表明,只要满足这四点,即使采用极简分组策略也能高效完成各类视觉任务。该方法还在点云处理与视觉-语言模型等多模态场景中得到验证。代码将公开于 https://github.com/qhfan/random。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Since Transformers are introduced into vision architectures, their quadratic complexity has always been a significant issue that many research efforts aim to address. A representative approach involves grouping tokens, performing self-attention calculations within each group, or pooling the tokens within each group into a single token. To this end, various carefully designed grouping strategies have been proposed to enhance the performance of Vision Transformers. Here, we pose the following questions: \textbf{Are these carefully designed grouping methods truly necessary? Is there a simpler and more unified token grouping method that can replace these diverse methods?} Therefore, we propose the random grouping strategy, which involves a simple and fast random grouping strategy for vision tokens. We validate this approach on multiple baselines, and experiments show that random grouping almost outperforms all other grouping methods. When transferred to downstream tasks, such as object detection, random grouping demonstrates even more pronounced advantages. In response to this phenomenon, we conduct a detailed analysis of the advantages of random grouping from multiple perspectives and identify several crucial elements for the design of grouping strategies: positional information, head feature diversity, global receptive field, and fixed grouping pattern. We demonstrate that as long as these four conditions are met, vision tokens require only an extremely simple grouping strategy to efficiently and effectively handle various visual tasks. We also validate the effectiveness of our proposed random method across multiple modalities, including visual tasks, point cloud processing, and vision-language models. Code will be available at https://github.com/qhfan/random.

视觉变换器分组策略随机分组多模态

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