Summary of Federated Learning From Vision-language Foundation Models: Theoretical Analysis and Method, by Bikang Pan et al.
Federated Learning from Vision-Language Foundation Models: Theoretical Analysis and Method
by Bikang Pan, Wei Huang, Ye Shi
First submitted to arxiv on: 29 Sep 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: 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 The paper introduces a theoretical framework for analyzing prompt-based federated learning in vision-language models like CLIP. By applying feature learning theory, the authors monitor signal learning and noise memorization, demonstrating that performance can be assessed by the ratio of task-relevant to task-irrelevant coefficients. The framework is then used to develop a prompt portfolio approach, which combines global and local prompts to balance generalization and personalization. Empirical experiments validate the theoretical claims. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary In this paper, researchers created a new way to understand how well vision-language models like CLIP work together in different tasks. They used special math called feature learning theory to figure out what makes the model good or bad at each task. This helped them create a new approach that combines two types of prompts to make the model better at doing both general and specific tasks. The results show that this new approach really works! |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Federated learning » Generalization » Prompt
