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How does a Vision Transformer (ViT) work, and when does it beat a CNN?

Patches as tokens, global attention from layer one, and a weaker inductive bias than a CNN. The signal is naming the data regime where each architecture wins and why. Here is the answer interviewers score highest.

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Patches as tokens, global attention from layer one, and a weaker inductive bias than a CNN. The signal is naming the data regime where each architecture wins and why. Here is the answer interviewers score highest.

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