Summary of Intriguing Differences Between Zero-shot and Systematic Evaluations Of Vision-language Transformer Models, by Shaeke Salman et al.
Intriguing Differences Between Zero-Shot and Systematic Evaluations of Vision-Language Transformer Models
by Shaeke Salman, Md Montasir Bin Shams, Xiuwen Liu, Lingjiong Zhu
First submitted to arxiv on: 13 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); 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 explores the representation space of a widely used vision-language model, seeking to understand how it generalizes and overgeneralizes beyond benchmark datasets. Building on a novel gradient descent optimization method, researchers use the Imagenette dataset to demonstrate that while the model achieves impressive zero-shot performance (over 99%), it fails systematic evaluations entirely. By developing a linear approximation framework, the study provides insight into these striking differences. The results are applicable to other transformer models with continuous inputs and could have implications for natural language processing. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The paper is about how to understand how a certain type of computer model works. These models are really good at recognizing things in pictures and understanding what people are saying. But they’re hard to understand because they’re very complex and big. Scientists want to know how these models work so well, but sometimes they get confused when shown new things. In this study, researchers used a special way of learning to look inside the model’s “brain” and see how it thinks about pictures. They found that even though the model is great at recognizing pictures, it doesn’t really understand what’s going on most of the time! This could help us make better models in the future. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Gradient descent * Language model * Natural language processing * Optimization * Transformer * Zero shot
