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MLP-Mixer Layer

Mixer Layer

7 papers tagged archive 2025-07-28

Introduced by Ilya Tolstikhin et al. in MLP-Mixer: An all-MLP Architecture for Vision

archive 2025-07-28 Description, source and code snippet are the archive's method entry.

A Mixer layer is a layer used in the MLP-Mixer architecture proposed by Tolstikhin et. al (2021) for computer vision. Mixer layers consist purely of MLPs, without convolutions or attention. It takes an input of embedded image patches (tokens), with its output having the same shape as its input, similar to that of a Vision Transformer encoder. As suggested by its name, Mixer layers "mix" tokens and channels through its "token mixing" and "channel mixing" MLPs contained the layer. It utilizes previous techniques by other architectures, such as layer normalization, skip-connections, and regularization methods.

Image credit: Tolstikhin, I. O., Houlsby, N., Kolesnikov, A., Beyer, L., Zhai, X., Unterthiner, T., ... & Dosovitskiy, A. (2021). Mlp-mixer: An all-mlp architecture for vision. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 34, 24261-24272.

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Papers archive 2025-07-28

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Tasks archive 2025-07-28

16 tasks the archive attaches to papers tagged with this method, by distinct papers. A task without a page in the catalog is plain text.

TaskPapers
3D Place Recognition1
All1
Autonomous Driving1
CPU1
Denoising1
Few-Shot Learning1
Human Pose Forecasting1
Human motion prediction1
Image Classification1
Semantic Segmentation1
Time Series1
Time Series Forecasting1
Traffic Prediction1
Transfer Learning1
image-classification1
motion prediction1

Usage over time archive 2025-07-28

Papers per year tagged with Mixer Layer: 2021 to 2024, peak 3 3 0 2021: 1 paper 2021 2022: 0 papers 2022 2023: 3 papers 2023 2024: 3 papers 2024
Papers per year the archive tags with this method, by the paper's archive date (7 dated). Bars are counts, not a trend claim.

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Categories archive 2025-07-28

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