Summary of Pre-trained Vision-language Models Learn Discoverable Visual Concepts, by Yuan Zang et al.
Pre-trained Vision-Language Models Learn Discoverable Visual Concepts
by Yuan Zang, Tian Yun, Hao Tan, Trung Bui, Chen Sun
First submitted to arxiv on: 19 Apr 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper investigates whether vision-language models (VLMs) can learn visual concepts like “brown” or “spiky” simultaneously while pre-training to caption an image of a durian. The researchers aim to answer this question, as learning these visual concepts would enable wide applications such as neuro-symbolic reasoning or human-interpretable object classification. They propose a new concept definition strategy based on two observations: recognizing correct concepts for wrong reasons and leveraging multimodal information. The proposed CDL framework identifies a diverse list of generic visual concepts and ranks them based on visual and language mutual information. The paper’s quantitative and human evaluations on six diverse visual recognition datasets confirm that pre-trained VLMs learn accurate and thorough descriptions for recognized objects. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine trying to teach a computer to understand what things look like just by showing it pictures. This paper looks at how well these computers, called vision-language models (VLMs), can learn about colors and textures when they’re trained on images of fruit, like durians. The researchers want to know if these VLMs can pick up on important details like “brown” or “spiky” without being told what those things are. They think that if these computers can do this, it could lead to all sorts of cool applications, like helping humans understand each other better. To figure out how well the VLMs are doing, they come up with a new way to define and test visual concepts. They then use six different image datasets to see how well their method works, and the results show that these computers can indeed learn to recognize objects in a pretty accurate way. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Classification
