Summary of On the Role Of Discrete Tokenization in Visual Representation Learning, by Tianqi Du et al.
On the Role of Discrete Tokenization in Visual Representation Learning
by Tianqi Du, Yifei Wang, Yisen Wang
First submitted to arxiv on: 12 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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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 explores the role of discrete tokens in masked image modeling (MIM) for self-supervised learning. Building on the connection between MIM and contrastive learning, it provides a comprehensive theoretical understanding of how tokenization affects generalization capabilities. The authors propose a novel metric called TCAS to assess token effectiveness within the MIM framework. They also contribute an innovative tokenizer design and a corresponding MIM method named ClusterMIM, which demonstrates superior performance on various benchmark datasets and ViT backbones. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about using pictures without labels to teach AI models new things. It looks at how using small pieces of text or “tokens” helps these models learn better. The researchers come up with a special way to measure how well this works, called TCAS. They also create a new way for the model to learn from these tokens, which is called ClusterMIM. This new method does even better on lots of different picture datasets. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Generalization » Self supervised » Token » Tokenization » Tokenizer » Vit
