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Keyword: vision-language models Clear all

3 claims from 2 papers

  1. Computer Science › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

    Conditional Prompt Learning for Vision-Language Models

    Zhou, Yang, Loy and Liu · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2022

    The paper finds that CoOp's learned prompts generalise poorly to unseen classes, and proposes CoCoOp, which generates a prompt for each image and generalises better to unseen classes and other domains.

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    1. UncheckedThe paper reports that prompts learned by CoOp do not generalise to unseen classes in the same dataset, suggesting overfitting to the training classes.“In our study we identify a critical problem of CoOp: the learned context is not generalizable to wider unseen classes within the same dataset, suggesting that CoOp overfits base classes observed during training.”
  2. Computer Science › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications

    VILA: On Pre-training for Visual Language Models

    Ji, Yin, Ping, Molchanov, Shoeybi and Han · IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    The paper studies how to pre-train visual language models, reports three findings on design choices, and uses them to build VILA, a model family that also shows extra abilities and runs on-device.

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    1. UncheckedThe authors say VILA, built with an improved pre-training recipe, consistently beats state-of-the-art models such as LLaVA-1.5 on main benchmarks.“With an enhanced pre-training recipe we build VILA, a Visual Language model family that consistently outperforms the state-of-the-art models, e.g., LLaVA-1.5, across main benchmarks without bells and whistles.”
    2. UncheckedThe paper says multi-modal pre-training brings out useful abilities in its VILA models: multi-image reasoning, stronger in-context learning and better world knowledge.“Multi-modal pre-training also helps unveil appealing properties of VILA, including multi-image reasoning, enhanced in-context learning, and better world knowledge.”

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