diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2152,4 +2152,13 @@ Coming from computer vision and new to transformers? Here are some resources tha
 }
 ```
 
+```bibtex
+@inproceedings{Zhou2024ValueRL,
+    title   = {Value Residual Learning For Alleviating Attention Concentration In Transformers},
+    author  = {Zhanchao Zhou and Tianyi Wu and Zhiyun Jiang and Zhenzhong Lan},
+    year    = {2024},
+    url     = {https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:273532030}
+}
+```
+
 *I visualise a time when we will be to robots what dogs are to humans, and I’m rooting for the machines.* — Claude Shannon
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 575faff..31ce3ac 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 setup(
   name = 'vit-pytorch',
   packages = find_packages(exclude=['examples']),
-  version = '1.8.5',
+  version = '1.8.6',
   license='MIT',
   description = 'Vision Transformer (ViT) - Pytorch',
   long_description=long_description,
diff --git a/vit_pytorch/simple_vit_with_value_residual.py b/vit_pytorch/simple_vit_with_value_residual.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..392ed96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vit_pytorch/simple_vit_with_value_residual.py
@@ -0,0 +1,151 @@
+import torch
+from torch import nn
+from torch.nn import Module, ModuleList
+
+from einops import rearrange
+from einops.layers.torch import Rearrange
+
+# helpers
+
+def exists(v):
+    return v is not None
+
+def default(v, d):
+    return v if exists(v) else d
+
+def pair(t):
+    return t if isinstance(t, tuple) else (t, t)
+
+def posemb_sincos_2d(h, w, dim, temperature: int = 10000, dtype = torch.float32):
+    y, x = torch.meshgrid(torch.arange(h), torch.arange(w), indexing="ij")
+    assert (dim % 4) == 0, "feature dimension must be multiple of 4 for sincos emb"
+    omega = torch.arange(dim // 4) / (dim // 4 - 1)
+    omega = 1.0 / (temperature ** omega)
+
+    y = y.flatten()[:, None] * omega[None, :]
+    x = x.flatten()[:, None] * omega[None, :]
+    pe = torch.cat((x.sin(), x.cos(), y.sin(), y.cos()), dim=1)
+    return pe.type(dtype)
+
+# classes
+
+def FeedForward(dim, hidden_dim):
+    return nn.Sequential(
+        nn.LayerNorm(dim),
+        nn.Linear(dim, hidden_dim),
+        nn.GELU(),
+        nn.Linear(hidden_dim, dim),
+    )
+
+class Attention(Module):
+    def __init__(self, dim, heads = 8, dim_head = 64):
+        super().__init__()
+        inner_dim = dim_head *  heads
+        self.heads = heads
+        self.scale = dim_head ** -0.5
+        self.norm = nn.LayerNorm(dim)
+
+        self.attend = nn.Softmax(dim = -1)
+
+        self.to_qkv = nn.Linear(dim, inner_dim * 3, bias = False)
+        self.to_out = nn.Linear(inner_dim, dim, bias = False)
+
+    def forward(self, x, value_residual = None):
+        x = self.norm(x)
+
+        qkv = self.to_qkv(x).chunk(3, dim = -1)
+        q, k, v = map(lambda t: rearrange(t, 'b n (h d) -> b h n d', h = self.heads), qkv)
+
+        if exists(value_residual):
+            v = v + value_residual
+
+        dots = torch.matmul(q, k.transpose(-1, -2)) * self.scale
+
+        attn = self.attend(dots)
+
+        out = torch.matmul(attn, v)
+        out = rearrange(out, 'b h n d -> b n (h d)')
+
+        return self.to_out(out), v
+
+class Transformer(Module):
+    def __init__(self, dim, depth, heads, dim_head, mlp_dim):
+        super().__init__()
+        self.norm = nn.LayerNorm(dim)
+        self.layers = ModuleList([])
+        for _ in range(depth):
+            self.layers.append(ModuleList([
+                Attention(dim, heads = heads, dim_head = dim_head),
+                FeedForward(dim, mlp_dim)
+            ]))
+    def forward(self, x):
+        value_residual = None
+
+        for attn, ff in self.layers:
+
+            attn_out, values = attn(x, value_residual = value_residual)
+            value_residual = default(value_residual, values)
+
+            x = attn_out + x
+            x = ff(x) + x
+
+        return self.norm(x)
+
+class SimpleViT(Module):
+    def __init__(self, *, image_size, patch_size, num_classes, dim, depth, heads, mlp_dim, channels = 3, dim_head = 64):
+        super().__init__()
+        image_height, image_width = pair(image_size)
+        patch_height, patch_width = pair(patch_size)
+
+        assert image_height % patch_height == 0 and image_width % patch_width == 0, 'Image dimensions must be divisible by the patch size.'
+
+        patch_dim = channels * patch_height * patch_width
+
+        self.to_patch_embedding = nn.Sequential(
+            Rearrange("b c (h p1) (w p2) -> b (h w) (p1 p2 c)", p1 = patch_height, p2 = patch_width),
+            nn.LayerNorm(patch_dim),
+            nn.Linear(patch_dim, dim),
+            nn.LayerNorm(dim),
+        )
+
+        self.pos_embedding = posemb_sincos_2d(
+            h = image_height // patch_height,
+            w = image_width // patch_width,
+            dim = dim,
+        ) 
+
+        self.transformer = Transformer(dim, depth, heads, dim_head, mlp_dim)
+
+        self.pool = "mean"
+        self.to_latent = nn.Identity()
+
+        self.linear_head = nn.Linear(dim, num_classes)
+
+    def forward(self, img):
+        device = img.device
+
+        x = self.to_patch_embedding(img)
+        x += self.pos_embedding.to(device, dtype=x.dtype)
+
+        x = self.transformer(x)
+        x = x.mean(dim = 1)
+
+        x = self.to_latent(x)
+        return self.linear_head(x)
+
+# quick test
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    v = SimpleViT(
+        num_classes = 1000,
+        image_size = 256,
+        patch_size = 8,
+        dim = 1024,
+        depth = 6,
+        heads = 8,
+        mlp_dim = 2048,
+    )
+
+    images = torch.randn(2, 3, 256, 256)
+
+    logits = v(images)