EANet just replaces self attention in Vit with external attention. The traditional Vit achieved a ~73% test top-5 accuracy and ~41 top-1 accuracy after training 50 epochs, but with 0.6M parameters. Under the same experimental environment and the same hyperparameters, The EANet model we just trained has just 0.3M parameters, and it gets us to ~73% test top-5 accuracy and ~43% top-1 accuracy. This fully demonstrates the effectiveness of external attention. We only show the training process of EANet, you can train Vit under the same experimental conditions and observe the test results.