Published on September 26, 2026, the work presents a theoretical criterion for feature-map spikiness and a channel-wise polarity-aware feature map. The authors evaluate the approach across six families of visual tasks.
PolaFormer++ proposes a theoretical criterion for characterizing feature-map spikiness and a channel-wise polarity-aware feature map for linear attention. The authors evaluate the approach across six families of visual tasks. The available summary does not specify those tasks or report quantitative results, so it does not support performance comparisons or conclusions about when the proposal outperforms alternatives.
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