ViT Image Classification Transformer Models

Tools and implementations for training Vision Transformers on image classification tasks across various datasets (MNIST, CIFAR-10, custom domains). Includes from-scratch implementations, fine-tuning tutorials, and comparative studies. Does NOT include vision-language models, object detection, medical imaging, 3D vision, or other downstream vision tasks beyond classification.

There are 35 vit image classification models tracked. 2 score above 50 (established tier). The highest-rated is jaehyunnn/ViTPose_pytorch at 53/100 with 125 stars.

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#	Model	Score	Tier	Stars	Language
1	jaehyunnn/ViTPose_pytorch An unofficial implementation of ViTPose [Y. Xu et al., 2022]	53	Established	125	Jupyter Notebook
2	UdbhavPrasad072300/Transformer-Implementations Library - Vanilla, ViT, DeiT, BERT, GPT	52	Established	69	Jupyter Notebook
3	tintn/vision-transformer-from-scratch A Simplified PyTorch Implementation of Vision Transformer (ViT)	46	Emerging	241	Jupyter Notebook
4	icon-lab/ResViT Official Implementation of ResViT: Residual Vision Transformers for...	46	Emerging	177	Python
5	gupta-abhay/pytorch-vit An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale	43	Emerging	306	Python
6	NVlabs/GroupViT Official PyTorch implementation of GroupViT: Semantic Segmentation Emerges...	42	Emerging	783	Python
7	rishikksh20/CrossViT-pytorch Implementation of CrossViT: Cross-Attention Multi-Scale Vision Transformer...	40	Emerging	208	Python
8	sayakpaul/probing-vits Probing the representations of Vision Transformers.	38	Emerging	340	Jupyter Notebook
9	all-things-vits/code-samples Holds code for our CVPR'23 tutorial: All Things ViTs: Understanding and...	37	Emerging	197	Jupyter Notebook
10	kyegomez/MC-ViT Implementation of the model: "(MC-ViT)" from the paper: "Memory...	37	Emerging	27	Python
11	jordandeklerk/SwinViT Modified Swin Transformer model in PyTorch on CIFAR-10 for image classification	36	Emerging	10	Python
12	Orion-AI-Lab/televit Teleconnection-driven vision transformers for improved long-term forecasting	31	Emerging	35	Python
13	sayannath/ViT-TF-Hub-Application Build and fine-tune your Image Classifier using a Vision Transformer Model...	28	Experimental	11	Jupyter Notebook
14	shub-garg/Vision-Transformer-VIT-for-MNIST This repository implements a Vision Transformer (ViT) to classify...	27	Experimental	15	Jupyter Notebook
15	vishvaRam/Fine-Tuning-Siglip2-Vit-Model This repository offers tools and guidance for fine-tuning the Siglip2 Vision...	26	Experimental	5	Python
16	godofpdog/ViT_PyTorch This is a simple PyTorch implementation of Vision Transformer (ViT)...	25	Experimental	25	Python
17	guglielmocamporese/visual-transformer-pytorch An easy and minimal implementation of the Visual Transformer (ViT) in...	23	Experimental	3	Python
18	benisalla/Tiny-ViT-Transformer-from-scratch This repository offers a straightforward implementation of Vision...	23	Experimental	3	Python
19	wambugu71/SmartAgriImage_classification_ViT Vision Transformer trained with thousands of agricultural diseases in...	23	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
20	PRITHIVSAKTHIUR/Vit-Mature-Content-Detection Vit-Mature-Content-Detection is an image classification vision-language...	21	Experimental	3	Python
21	sergio-sanz-rodriguez/Vision-Transformers-Image-Classification Development of Vision Transformer (ViT) networks for multi-class image...	20	Experimental	6	Jupyter Notebook
22	bikhanal/vision-transformer Implementation of Vision Transformer (ViT) from scratch for image classification.	20	Experimental	5	Jupyter Notebook
23	Vitgracer/ViT-from-scratch Simple minimal Vision Transformer implementation in PyTorch	19	Experimental	2	Python
24	Sid7on1/ViT-Vision-Transformer ViT-ClassiPy is a lightweight Vision Transformer built from scratch using...	18	Experimental	1	—
25	jordandeklerk/ViT Implementing a vision transformer model in PyTorch on CIFAR-10	18	Experimental	2	Python
26	jhtobigs/ViT_Survey Vision Transformer Survey and Implementation	18	Experimental	2	Python
27	conceptofmind/DeepViT-flax Implementation of Deep Vision Transformer in Flax	17	Experimental	1	Python
28	r-dug/GCViT_Classifier Image classifier and training script, using GCViT	17	Experimental	—	Python
29	AddictivelyRecursive/lightweight-multimodal-transformer-pipeline Lightweight multimodal transformer pipeline comparing MobileViT and...	14	Experimental	1	Jupyter Notebook
30	zubairmk83/ViTP 🌟 Pretrain domain-specific models using visual instructions to enhance...	13	Experimental	—	Python
31	codebywiam/visual-transformer A deep learning project using Vision Transformer (ViT) to classify bean leaf...	13	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
32	Nahom32/ViT An implementation of the vision transformer using CIFAR-10.	13	Experimental	—	Jupyter Notebook
33	KimiaaK/vision-transformer-HuggingFace This project utilizes ViT via HuggingFace to classify 9 strawberry diseases.	12	Experimental	1	Python
34	YShokrollahi/vit-transformers-tf This package provides an implementation of the Vision Transformer (ViT) in...	11	Experimental	—	Python
35	jordanlei/vision-transformer Image classification and generation for CIFAR10 using ViT	10	Experimental	1	Python

Comparisons in this category

pytorch-vit and ViT_PyTorch (43 vs 25) Transformer-Implementations and vision-transformer-from-scratch (52 vs 46) vision-transformer-from-scratch and ViT_PyTorch (46 vs 25) vision-transformer-from-scratch and visual-transformer-pytorch (46 vs 23) vision-transformer-from-scratch and Tiny-ViT-Transformer-from-scratch (46 vs 23) Transformer-Implementations and ViT_PyTorch (52 vs 25) Transformer-Implementations and Tiny-ViT-Transformer-from-scratch (52 vs 23)