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Mar 19, 2026 · Artificial Intelligence
Why Sharing Parameters in Vision Transformers Hurts Performance—and How Layer Specialization Fixes It
The article analyzes the hidden conflict between [CLS] and patch tokens in Vision Transformers, reveals how shared normalization and linear layers cause computational friction, and demonstrates that layer‑specific parameters dramatically improve dense prediction tasks without increasing inference FLOPs.
Computer VisionDense PredictionLayer Specialization
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