Summary of Cross-modality Debiasing: Using Language to Mitigate Sub-population Shifts in Imaging, by Yijiang Pang et al.
Cross-modality debiasing: using language to mitigate sub-population shifts in imaging
by Yijiang Pang, Bao Hoang, Jiayu Zhou
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- 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 paper proposes a method to improve the distributional robustness of multi-modal foundation models, specifically the vision-language model CLIP, which is vulnerable to parameter fine-tuning. By leveraging the connection between different modalities, the authors suggest reshaping the distributional robustness of one modality with another. In this case, they propose using natural language inputs to debias image feature representations and improve worst-case performance on sub-populations. The results show significant performance improvement and reduction of performance instability under sub-population shifts. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about making AI models more fair by fixing a problem called “sub-population shift”. This means that the model is biased towards one group of people or things, but not others. The researchers found that some AI models are naturally good at dealing with this problem, but it can be ruined if someone adjusts the model’s settings. They came up with an idea to use words and images together to make the model more fair. They tested their idea on a popular AI model called CLIP and found that it worked really well. This is important because AI models are used in many areas of life, and we want them to be fair and work well for everyone. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Fine tuning » Language model » Multi modal
