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Are we ready for a new paradigm shift? A Survey on Visual Deep MLP
Ruiyang Liu, Yinghui Li, Linmi Tao, Dun Liang, Hai-Tao Zheng
Recently, the proposed deep MLP models have stirred up a lot of interest in the vision community. Historically, the availability of larger datasets combined with increased computing capacity leads to paradigm shifts. This review paper provides detailed discussions on whether MLP can be a new paradigm for computer vision. We compare the intrinsic connections and differences between convolution, self-attention mechanism, and Token-mixing MLP in detail. Advantages and limitations of Token-mixing MLP are provided, followed by careful analysis of recent MLP-like variants, from module design to network architecture, and their applications. In the GPU era, the locally and globally weighted summations are the current mainstreams, represented by the convolution and self-attention mechanism, as well as MLP. We suggest the further development of paradigm to be considered alongside the next-generation computing devices.
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