Summary of Variance Alignment Score: a Simple but Tough-to-beat Data Selection Method For Multimodal Contrastive Learning, by Yiping Wang et al.
Variance Alignment Score: A Simple But Tough-to-Beat Data Selection Method for Multimodal Contrastive Learning
by Yiping Wang, Yifang Chen, Wendan Yan, Kevin Jamieson, Simon Shaolei Du
First submitted to arxiv on: 3 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Variance Alignment Score (VAS) metric offers a theoretically principled approach to selecting the most informative samples in large-scale visual-language model pretraining. By aligning target covariance matrices with sample representations, VAS aims to improve data selection over existing methods like CLIP similarity. The paper presents theoretical analysis and experimental results demonstrating the effectiveness of VAS, particularly when combined with CLIP scores. Notably, this combination outperforms baselines by 1.3% on noisy datasets and 2.5% on high-quality datasets. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In this research, scientists found a better way to choose which pictures and words to use for training big models. They created a new metric called VAS that helps pick the most important samples. This is important because it makes sure the model learns from the right things, not just random things. The researchers tested their method and showed it works better than other methods. They also found that using pictures instead of words to calculate VAS is more effective. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Alignment * Language model * Pretraining
