Summary of The Narrow Gate: Localized Image-text Communication in Vision-language Models, by Alessandro Serra et al.
The Narrow Gate: Localized Image-Text Communication in Vision-Language Models
by Alessandro Serra, Francesco Ortu, Emanuele Panizon, Lucrezia Valeriani, Lorenzo Basile, Alessio Ansuini, Diego Doimo, Alberto Cazzaniga
First submitted to arxiv on: 9 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: 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 Medium Difficulty summary: This study investigates how vision-language models (VLMs) process and transfer visual information to text. VLMs that generate both images and text show separated image and text embeddings in their residual stream, whereas those that only output text exhibit a distributed communication pattern through multiple image tokens. Models trained for image and text generation rely on a single token for visual information, which can be modified to steer the model’s behavior. The study demonstrates that ablating this token significantly deteriorates performance on image understanding tasks. VLMs, multimodal training, vision-language models, image-understanding tasks, residual stream, distributed communication pattern. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty summary: This paper looks at how machines learn from images and words together. It compares different ways of doing this and finds that some methods work better than others when it comes to understanding what’s in an image. The study shows that changing one part of the machine can make a big difference in its ability to recognize objects in pictures. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Text generation » Token
