Summary of An Introduction to Vision-language Modeling, by Florian Bordes et al.
An Introduction to Vision-Language Modeling
by Florian Bordes, Richard Yuanzhe Pang, Anurag Ajay, Alexander C. Li, Adrien Bardes, Suzanne Petryk, Oscar Mañas, Zhiqiu Lin, Anas Mahmoud, Bargav Jayaraman, Mark Ibrahim, Melissa Hall, Yunyang Xiong, Jonathan Lebensold, Candace Ross, Srihari Jayakumar, Chuan Guo, Diane Bouchacourt, Haider Al-Tahan, Karthik Padthe, Vasu Sharma, Hu Xu, Xiaoqing Ellen Tan, Megan Richards, Samuel Lavoie, Pietro Astolfi, Reyhane Askari Hemmat, Jun Chen, Kushal Tirumala, Rim Assouel, Mazda Moayeri, Arjang Talattof, Kamalika Chaudhuri, Zechun Liu, Xilun Chen, Quentin Garrido, Karen Ullrich, Aishwarya Agrawal, Kate Saenko, Asli Celikyilmaz, Vikas Chandra
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 May 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: None
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The paper introduces the concept of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), which aim to bridge the gap between visual and linguistic domains. The authors highlight the potential applications of VLMs in areas like navigation and image generation using high-level text descriptions. However, they also acknowledge the significant challenges that need to be addressed to improve the reliability of these models. Specifically, they note that vision operates in a much higher-dimensional space than language, making it difficult to discretize concepts. To address this challenge, the authors present an introduction to VLMs, covering their mechanics, training methods, and evaluation approaches. The paper also discusses extending VLMs from images to videos. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary VLMs are special kinds of computer models that can understand both words and pictures. They’re like super-smart translators that can help us do things like find our way around a new city using only a description, or even generate new images based on what we say. But making these models work is really hard because pictures have lots of details that are hard to put into simple words. To make it easier, the authors of this paper teach us about how VLMs work and how to train them to be better at understanding pictures. They also talk about how we can check if these models are working well. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Image generation
