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MobileViTv3: Mobile-Friendly Vision Transformer with Simple and Effective Fusion of Local, Global and Input Features

30 Sep 2022arXiv:2209.15159archive 2025-07-28

Shakti N. Wadekar, Abhishek Chaurasia

MobileViT (MobileViTv1) combines convolutional neural networks (CNNs) and vision transformers (ViTs) to create light-weight models for mobile vision tasks. Though the main MobileViTv1-block helps to achieve competitive state-of-the-art results, the fusion block inside MobileViTv1-block, creates scaling challenges and has a complex learning task. We propose changes to the fusion block that are simple and effective to create MobileViTv3-block, which addresses the scaling and simplifies the learning task. Our proposed MobileViTv3-block used to create MobileViTv3-XXS, XS and S models outperform MobileViTv1 on ImageNet-1k, ADE20K, COCO and PascalVOC2012 datasets. On ImageNet-1K, MobileViTv3-XXS and MobileViTv3-XS surpasses MobileViTv1-XXS and MobileViTv1-XS by 2% and 1.9% respectively. Recently published MobileViTv2 architecture removes fusion block and uses linear complexity transformers to perform better than MobileViTv1. We add our proposed fusion block to MobileViTv2 to create MobileViTv3-0.5, 0.75 and 1.0 models. These new models give better accuracy numbers on ImageNet-1k, ADE20K, COCO and PascalVOC2012 datasets as compared to MobileViTv2. MobileViTv3-0.5 and MobileViTv3-0.75 outperforms MobileViTv2-0.5 and MobileViTv2-0.75 by 2.1% and 1.0% respectively on ImageNet-1K dataset. For segmentation task, MobileViTv3-1.0 achieves 2.07% and 1.1% better mIOU compared to MobileViTv2-1.0 on ADE20K dataset and PascalVOC2012 dataset respectively. Our code and the trained models are available at: https://github.com/micronDLA/MobileViTv3

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Tasks

Image ClassificationObject DetectionSemantic Segmentation

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-S GFLOPs 1.841 #765 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-S Number of params 5.8M #765 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-S Top 1 Accuracy 79.3% #765 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-1.0 GFLOPs 1.876 #815 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-1.0 Top 1 Accuracy 78.64% #815 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-XS GFLOPs 0.927 #902 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-XS Number of params 2.5M #902 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-XS Top 1 Accuracy 76.7% #902 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-0.75 GFLOPs 1.064 #911 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-0.75 Number of params 3M #911 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-0.75 Top 1 Accuracy 76.55% #911 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-0.5 GFLOPs 0.481 #998 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-0.5 Number of params 1.4M #998 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-0.5 Top 1 Accuracy 72.33% #998 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-XXS GFLOPs 0.289 #1015 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-XXS Number of params 1.2M #1015 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report
Image Classification ImageNet MobileViTv3-XXS Top 1 Accuracy 70.98% #1015 of 1060 Archive leaderboard report

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Methods

Introduced by this paper: MobileViTv3

1x1 ConvolutionAttentionBatch NormalizationConvolutionDense ConnectionsDepthwise ConvolutionDepthwise Separable ConvolutionDropoutLayer NormalizationLinear LayerMobileViTv2MobileViTv3Multi-Head AttentionPointwise ConvolutionResidual ConnectionSoftmaxVision Transformer

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