dynamic positional bias for crossformer the more efficient way as described in appendix of paper

setup.py

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ from setuptools import setup, find_packages
 setup(
   name = 'vit-pytorch',
   packages = find_packages(exclude=['examples']),
-  version = '0.24.0',
+  version = '0.24.1',
   license='MIT',
   description = 'Vision Transformer (ViT) - Pytorch',
   author = 'Phil Wang',

vit_pytorch/crossformer.py

@@ -103,12 +103,25 @@ class Attention(nn.Module):
         self.attn_type = attn_type
         self.window_size = window_size
 
-        self.dpb = DynamicPositionBias(dim // 4)
-
         self.norm = LayerNorm(dim)
         self.to_qkv = nn.Conv2d(dim, inner_dim * 3, 1, bias = False)
         self.to_out = nn.Conv2d(inner_dim, dim, 1)
 
+        # positions
+
+        self.dpb = DynamicPositionBias(dim // 4)
+
+        # calculate and store indices for retrieving bias
+
+        pos = torch.arange(window_size)
+        grid = torch.stack(torch.meshgrid(pos, pos))
+        grid = rearrange(grid, 'c i j -> (i j) c')
+        rel_pos = grid[:, None] - grid[None, :]
+        rel_pos += window_size - 1
+        rel_pos_indices = (rel_pos * torch.tensor([2 * window_size - 1, 1])).sum(dim = -1)
+
+        self.register_buffer('rel_pos_indices', rel_pos_indices, persistent = False)
+
     def forward(self, x):
         *_, height, width, heads, wsz, device = *x.shape, self.heads, self.window_size, x.device
 
@@ -136,12 +149,11 @@ class Attention(nn.Module):
 
         # add dynamic positional bias
 
-        i_pos = torch.arange(wsz, device = device)
-        j_pos = torch.arange(wsz, device = device)
-        grid = torch.stack(torch.meshgrid(i_pos, j_pos))
-        grid = rearrange(grid, 'c i j -> (i j) c')
-        rel_ij = grid[:, None] - grid[None, :]
-        rel_pos_bias = self.dpb(rel_ij.float())
+        pos = torch.arange(-wsz, wsz + 1, device = device)
+        rel_pos = torch.stack(torch.meshgrid(pos, pos))
+        rel_pos = rearrange(rel_pos, 'c i j -> (i j) c')
+        biases = self.dpb(rel_pos.float())
+        rel_pos_bias = biases[self.rel_pos_indices]
 
         sim = sim + rel_pos_bias