On the Importance of Contrastive Loss in Multimodal Learning
- URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03717v1
- Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2023 16:25:18 GMT
- Title: On the Importance of Contrastive Loss in Multimodal Learning
- Authors: Yunwei Ren, Yuanzhi Li
- Abstract summary: We analyze the training dynamics of a simple multimodal contrastive learning model.
We show that contrastive pairs are important for the model to efficiently balance the learned representations.
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- Abstract: Recently, contrastive learning approaches (e.g., CLIP (Radford et al., 2021))
have received huge success in multimodal learning, where the model tries to
minimize the distance between the representations of different views (e.g.,
image and its caption) of the same data point while keeping the representations
of different data points away from each other. However, from a theoretical
perspective, it is unclear how contrastive learning can learn the
representations from different views efficiently, especially when the data is
not isotropic. In this work, we analyze the training dynamics of a simple
multimodal contrastive learning model and show that contrastive pairs are
important for the model to efficiently balance the learned representations. In
particular, we show that the positive pairs will drive the model to align the
representations at the cost of increasing the condition number, while the
negative pairs will reduce the condition number, keeping the learned
representations balanced.
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