LASP: Text-to-Text Optimization for Language-Aware Soft Prompting of Vision & Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2210.01115v2
• Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2023 18:03:06 GMT
• Title: LASP: Text-to-Text Optimization for Language-Aware Soft Prompting of Vision & Language Models
• Authors: Adrian Bulat and Georgios Tzimiropoulos
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel Language-Aware Soft Prompting (LASP) learning method to alleviate base class overfitting. LASP is inherently amenable to including, during training, virtual classes, i.e. class names for which no visual samples are available. LASP matches and surpasses, for the first time, the accuracy on novel classes obtained by hand-crafted prompts and CLIP for 8 out of 11 test datasets.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Soft prompt learning has recently emerged as one of the methods of choice for adapting V&L models to a downstream task using a few training examples. However, current methods significantly overfit the training data, suffering from large accuracy degradation when tested on unseen classes from the same domain. To this end, in this paper, we make the following 4 contributions: (1) To alleviate base class overfitting, we propose a novel Language-Aware Soft Prompting (LASP) learning method by means of a text-to-text cross-entropy loss that maximizes the probability of the learned prompts to be correctly classified with respect to pre-defined hand-crafted textual prompts. (2) To increase the representation capacity of the prompts, we propose grouped LASP where each group of prompts is optimized with respect to a separate subset of textual prompts. (3) We identify a visual-language misalignment introduced by prompt learning and LASP, and more importantly, propose a re-calibration mechanism to address it. (4) We show that LASP is inherently amenable to including, during training, virtual classes, i.e. class names for which no visual samples are available, further increasing the robustness of the learned prompts. Through evaluations on 11 datasets, we show that our approach (a) significantly outperforms all prior works on soft prompting, and (b) matches and surpasses, for the first time, the accuracy on novel classes obtained by hand-crafted prompts and CLIP for 8 out of 11 test datasets. Code will be made available at https://www.adrianbulat.com/lasp

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