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Life sciences · Preprint
arXiv · September 4, 2026
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LookThere is a preprint presenting a reinforcement learning framework for adaptive token selection in vision transformers, claiming improved performance-compute trade-offs across multiple computer vision tasks. The work is computational and methodological, lacks peer review and clinical validation, and does not provide effect sizes or statistical comparisons sufficient to assess clinical or real-world impact.
Preprint. Computer vision benchmark datasets and vision transformer models; no human subjects.. Intervention: LookThere: end-to-end reinforcement learning framework combining shallow input selector and deep representation extractor for adaptive token selection.. Compared with: Existing adaptive computation and token selection methods (named but not quantitatively detailed)..
Method maintains accuracy using as little as 0.2% of input tokens in sparse recognition tasks. Generalizes across multiple tasks: ImageNet classification, ADE20K segmentation, zero-shot classification, and regression (counting). Achieves claimed new pareto frontier in performance-compute trade-offs without auxiliary signals like token diversity or attention scores.
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This is a preprint describing a novel machine learning method with computational results but no clinical validation, peer review, or comparison against established baselines in medical or real-world deployment settings.
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Vision transformers typically treat every image token as equally important, yet for most tasks in computer vision only a fraction are needed. Adaptive computation methods accelerate inference by choosing which tokens to process, but existing methods struggle at extreme sparsity and require heuristics that may not generalize like token diversity and attention scores. We address these limitations with LookThere, achieving a new pareto frontier in performance-compute trade-offs through an end-to-end reinforcement learning framework that jointly trains a shallow input selector and a deep representation extractor. The selector learns where to look and the extractor learns what to see, together saving computation by selecting only what is worth processing for a given task without relying on auxiliary signals. We show that LookThere only selects the task-specific input, excelling at sparse recognition in high-resolution settings (traffic signs, billiards), and maintaining accuracy with as little as 0.2% of the input. It generalizes across tasks and models, including global recognition (ImageNet classification), local recognition (ADE20K segmentation), zero-shot classification (by distillation), and regression (counting). Across all settings, LookThere surpasses state-of-the-art selection to provide a general and scalable framework for specialized and efficient adaptive computation.
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