ARTA: Adaptive Mixed-Resolution Token Allocation for Efficient Dense Feature Extraction

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References: 38
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References: 38

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Source paper: ARTA: Adaptive Mixed-Resolution Token Allocation for Efficient Dense Feature Extraction

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2603.26258v1

Source count: 3

Coverage: 50%

Last proof check: 2026-03-30T21:54:04.519Z

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Evidencepartial
Unlike models that begin with dense high-resolution (fine) tokens, ARTA starts with low-resolution (coarse) tokens and uses a lightweight allocator to predict which regions require more fine tokens.
Implicationpartial
This is the core methodological innovation described in the abstract and elaborated in the overview section.
Verificationpartial
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Evidencepartial
Experiments demonstrate that ARTA achieves state-of-the-art results on ADE20K and COCO-Stuff with substantially fewer FLOPs, and delivers competitive performance on Cityscapes at markedly lower compute.
Implicationpartial
The abstract states this directly, and Table 3 provides supporting mIoU and FLOPs data for ARTA-Base.
Verificationpartial
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Evidencepartial
For example, ARTA-Base attains 54.6 mIoU on ADE20K in the ~100M-parameter class while using fewer FLOPs and less memory than comparable backbones.
Implicationpartial
This is a specific quantitative result presented in the abstract and supported by the performance tables.
Verificationpartial
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Evidencepartial
The allocator iteratively predicts a semantic (class) boundary score and allocates additional tokens to patches above a low threshold, concentrating token density near boundaries while maintaining high sensitivity to weak boundary evidence.
Implicationpartial
This is a key component of the ARTA method, explicitly described in the abstract and overview.
Verificationpartial
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Evidencepartial
Mixed-resolution attention enables interaction between coarse and fine tokens, focusing computation on semantically complex areas while avoiding redundant processing in homogeneous regions.
Implicationpartial
This describes a crucial aspect of ARTA's architecture and its efficiency mechanism, as stated in the abstract and overview.
Verificationpartial
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Evidencepartial
Instead, ARTA starts from coarse tokens and increases spatial resolution only where needed. This avoids ever allocating high-resolution tokens to semantically simple patches and enables a principled and efficient use of computation.
Implicationpartial
This highlights a key advantage of ARTA's approach compared to other methods, as explained in the related work section.
Verificationpartial
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Evidencepartial
ARTA-Base 111.5M 82.4±14.0G 53.5 54.6
Implicationpartial
This is a specific quantitative result for ARTA-Base on a benchmark dataset, provided in the experimental setup and results.
Verificationpartial
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Evidencepartial
We present ARTA, a mixed-resolution coarse-to-fine vision transformer for efficient dense feature extraction.
Implicationpartial
This is explicitly stated in the abstract and title, forming the core of the paper's proposal.
Verificationpartial
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Evidencepartial
Unlike models that begin with dense high-resolution (fine) tokens, ARTA starts with low-resolution (coarse) tokens and uses a lightweight allocator to predict which regions require more fine tokens.
Implicationpartial
The abstract and analysis clearly describe this adaptive allocation mechanism as a key differentiator.
Verificationpartial
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Evidencepartial
The allocator iteratively predicts a semantic (class) boundary score and allocates additional tokens to patches above a low threshold, concentrating token density near boundaries while maintaining high sensitivity to weak boundary evidence.
Implicationpartial
The abstract and analysis detail the role of the allocator in predicting boundary scores for token allocation.
Verificationpartial
partial
Evidencepartial
Experiments demonstrate that ARTA achieves state-of-the-art results on ADE20K and COCO-Stuff with substantially fewer FLOPs, and delivers competitive performance on Cityscapes at markedly lower compute.
Implicationpartial
The abstract mentions state-of-the-art results on ADE20K with fewer FLOPs, and tables provide supporting numerical evidence.
Verificationpartial
partial
Evidencepartial
For example, ARTA-Base attains 54.6 mIoU on ADE20K in the ~100M-parameter class while using fewer FLOPs and less memory than comparable backbones.
Implicationpartial
This is a specific quantitative result presented in the abstract with supporting data in the tables.
Verificationpartial
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