ViT-Explainer: An Interactive Walkthrough of the Vision Transformer Pipeline

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Source paper: ViT-Explainer: An Interactive Walkthrough of the Vision Transformer Pipeline

PDF: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2604.02182v1

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we present ViT-Explainer, a web-based interactive system that provides an integrated visualization of Vision Transformer inference, from patch tokenization to final classification
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Existing interpretability tools often focus on isolated components or expert-oriented analysis, leaving a gap in guided, end-to-end understanding of the full inference pipeline
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The system combines animated walkthroughs, patch-level attention overlays, and a vision-adapted Logit Lens within both guided and free exploration modes
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A user study with six participants suggests that ViT-Explainer is easy to learn and use
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Directly stated in the abstract with specific mention of user study and participant count, though small sample size
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helping users interpret and understand Vision Transformer behavior
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Transformer-based architectures have become the shared backbone of natural language processing and computer vision
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understanding how these models operate remains challenging, particularly in vision settings, where images are processed as sequences of patch tokens
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