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 ## Acknowledgments
 
 We thank the TPU Research Cloud program for providing cloud TPUs that were used to build and train the models for our extensive experiments.
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+## Citation
+
+If you find our work helpful, feel free to give us a cite.
+
+```bibtex
+@article{TOULAOUI2026115151,
+    title = {Efficient vision transformers via patch selective soft-masked attention and knowledge distillation},
+    journal = {Applied Soft Computing},
+    pages = {115151},
+    year = {2026},
+    issn = {1568-4946},
+    doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.asoc.2026.115151},
+    url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1568494626005995},
+    author = {Abdelfattah Toulaoui and Hamza Khalfi and Imad Hafidi},
+    keywords = {Vision transformer, Patch selection, Soft masking, Efficient inference}
+}
+```