Summary of Image-caption Encoding For Improving Zero-shot Generalization, by Eric Yang Yu et al.
Image-Caption Encoding for Improving Zero-Shot Generalization
by Eric Yang Yu, Christopher Liao, Sathvik Ravi, Theodoros Tsiligkaridis, Brian Kulis
First submitted to arxiv on: 5 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The proposed Image-Caption Encoding (ICE) method enhances the out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization capabilities of vision-language models for image classification tasks. By leveraging generated captions to guide local searches within top predicted classes, ICE improves Top-1 OOD accuracies by 0.5% on average and up to 3% on challenging datasets when combined with state-of-the-art methods. This approach demonstrates the effectiveness of incorporating caption-based information into model predictions for better generalizability. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper proposes a way to improve image classification models that work well but struggle to recognize images they’ve never seen before. The idea is to use generated descriptions of the images, like what’s in them, to help pick the correct class label when the model is unsure. This method can be used with other powerful techniques to make these models even better at recognizing new images. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Generalization * Image classification
