Hiera: A Hierarchical Vision Transformer without the Bells-and-Whistles · HackerPapers discussionshttps://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2306.00989/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMTHiera: A Hierarchical Vision Transformer without the Bells-and-Whistles — mentioned by GaggiXhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41218873urn:hackerpapers:mention:2306.00989:41218873Sun, 11 Aug 2024 19:52:15 GMT<p>SAM 2 not only focuses on speed, it actually performs better than SAM (1), the other models instead always trade performance for speed. SAM 2 is able to achieve this result thanks to its Hiera MAE encoder: https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.00989</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/2306.00989/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CV