Steerable Transformers for Volumetric Data
Soumyabrata Kundu, Risi Kondor
2025Year
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Abstract
We introduce Steerable Transformers, an extension of the Vision Transformer that is equivariant to the action of the Special Euclidean group SE(d). We propose an steerable self-attention mechanism that operates on features extracted by steerable convolutions. Our experiments in both two and three dimensions show augmenting steerable convolutional networks with steerable transformer leads to improved performance.
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