Summary of Imperfect Vision Encoders: Efficient and Robust Tuning For Vision-language Models, by Aristeidis Panos et al.
Imperfect Vision Encoders: Efficient and Robust Tuning for Vision-Language Models
by Aristeidis Panos, Rahaf Aljundi, Daniel Olmeda Reino, Richard E Turner
First submitted to arxiv on: 23 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); 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 paper proposes an efficient and robust method for updating vision encoders within vision language models (VLMs). Current open-source VLMs rely heavily on pretrained and frozen vision encoders like CLIP, which while robust across diverse domains, still exhibits non-negligible image understanding errors. These errors propagate to the VLM responses, resulting in sub-optimal performance. The proposed approach selectively and locally updates encoders, leading to substantial performance improvements on data where previous mistakes occurred, while maintaining overall robustness. The method is theoretically grounded, generalizable, and computationally efficient. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper helps fix problems with language models that understand images. Right now, these models rely on others that are already very good at recognizing pictures. But even those models can make mistakes, which affects the image-language models’ performance. This paper shows a new way to update those image-recognizing models within the larger language models. It works by making small changes to specific parts of the model, which helps improve its performance without ruining what it already knows how to do well. |
