Summary of Csa: Data-efficient Mapping Of Unimodal Features to Multimodal Features, by Po-han Li et al.
CSA: Data-efficient Mapping of Unimodal Features to Multimodal Features
by Po-han Li, Sandeep P. Chinchali, Ufuk Topcu
First submitted to arxiv on: 10 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This research proposes a novel approach called Canonical Similarity Analysis (CSA) that enables multimodal encoders like CLIP to excel in tasks such as zero-shot image classification and cross-modal retrieval using limited training data. By mapping unimodal features into a multimodal space, CSA retains only the multimodal information, eliminating the need for extensive GPU-based model training. The method outperforms CLIP while requiring significantly less multimodal data pairs. Additionally, experiments demonstrate the ability of CSA to map unimodal features to multimodal features beyond image and text, paving the way for future modality pairs. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Imagine you have two different types of information, like images and words. Usually, computers need a lot of examples of both together to understand how they relate. But what if you only had one type of information? This paper proposes a new way called Canonical Similarity Analysis (CSA) that can connect these two types of information using just one type, without needing all the paired examples. It’s like having a special translator that helps computers understand how images and words are related, even when they’re not together. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Image classification » Zero shot
