Multimodal Contrastive Training for Visual Representation Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.12836v1
• Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 19:23:36 GMT
• Title: Multimodal Contrastive Training for Visual Representation Learning
• Authors: Xin Yuan, Zhe Lin, Jason Kuen, Jianming Zhang, Yilin Wang, Michael Maire, Ajinkya Kale, and Baldo Faieta
• Abstract summary: We develop an approach to learning visual representations that embraces multimodal data. Our method exploits intrinsic data properties within each modality and semantic information from cross-modal correlation simultaneously. By including multimodal training in a unified framework, our method can learn more powerful and generic visual features.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: We develop an approach to learning visual representations that embraces multimodal data, driven by a combination of intra- and inter-modal similarity preservation objectives. Unlike existing visual pre-training methods, which solve a proxy prediction task in a single domain, our method exploits intrinsic data properties within each modality and semantic information from cross-modal correlation simultaneously, hence improving the quality of learned visual representations. By including multimodal training in a unified framework with different types of contrastive losses, our method can learn more powerful and generic visual features. We first train our model on COCO and evaluate the learned visual representations on various downstream tasks including image classification, object detection, and instance segmentation. For example, the visual representations pre-trained on COCO by our method achieve state-of-the-art top-1 validation accuracy of $55.3\%$ on ImageNet classification, under the common transfer protocol. We also evaluate our method on the large-scale Stock images dataset and show its effectiveness on multi-label image tagging, and cross-modal retrieval tasks.

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