Summary of Exploring Curriculum Learning For Vision-language Tasks: a Study on Small-scale Multimodal Training, by Rohan Saha et al.
Exploring Curriculum Learning for Vision-Language Tasks: A Study on Small-Scale Multimodal Training
by Rohan Saha, Abrar Fahim, Alona Fyshe, Alex Murphy
First submitted to arxiv on: 20 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL); 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 investigates efficient machine learning methods in limited data settings, drawing inspiration from human learning. It explores three primary variables – curriculum learning, pretraining with text-only data, and model type – and assesses their impact on two task types: multimodal (text+image) and unimodal (text-only) tasks. The study finds that curriculum learning benefits multimodal evaluations when combining text-only pretraining, while smaller models with fewer trainable parameters benefit from curriculum learning in text-only tasks. The results suggest architectural differences and training designs may contribute to these findings. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper looks at how machines can learn effectively even when there’s not much data available. They tried different methods to see what works best, like helping the machine learn by giving it smaller amounts of information first. They also looked at whether using simpler or more complex models makes a difference. The results show that one method, called curriculum learning, is especially helpful for combining text and images, while another method helps smaller models learn better from text-only data. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Curriculum learning » Machine learning » Pretraining
