Adaptive Contextual Perception: How to Generalize to New Backgrounds and Ambiguous Objects

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2306.05963v2
• Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2023 19:35:32 GMT
• Title: Adaptive Contextual Perception: How to Generalize to New Backgrounds and Ambiguous Objects
• Authors: Zhuofan Ying, Peter Hase, Mohit Bansal
• Abstract summary: We investigate how vision models adaptively use context for out-of-distribution generalization. We show that models that excel in one setting tend to struggle in the other. To replicate the generalization abilities of biological vision, computer vision models must have factorized object vs. background representations.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Biological vision systems make adaptive use of context to recognize objects in new settings with novel contexts as well as occluded or blurry objects in familiar settings. In this paper, we investigate how vision models adaptively use context for out-of-distribution (OOD) generalization and leverage our analysis results to improve model OOD generalization. First, we formulate two distinct OOD settings where the contexts are either irrelevant (Background-Invariance) or beneficial (Object-Disambiguation), reflecting the diverse contextual challenges faced in biological vision. We then analyze model performance in these two different OOD settings and demonstrate that models that excel in one setting tend to struggle in the other. Notably, prior works on learning causal features improve on one setting but hurt in the other. This underscores the importance of generalizing across both OOD settings, as this ability is crucial for both human cognition and robust AI systems. Next, to better understand the model properties contributing to OOD generalization, we use representational geometry analysis and our own probing methods to examine a population of models, and we discover that those with more factorized representations and appropriate feature weighting are more successful in handling Background-Invariance and Object-Disambiguation tests. We further validate these findings through causal intervention on representation factorization and feature weighting to demonstrate their causal effect on performance. Lastly, we propose new augmentation methods to enhance model generalization. These methods outperform strong baselines, yielding improvements in both in-distribution and OOD tests. In conclusion, to replicate the generalization abilities of biological vision, computer vision models must have factorized object vs. background representations and appropriately weight both kinds of features.

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