Leveraging Unpaired Data for Vision-Language Generative Models via Cycle Consistency

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03734v1
• Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2023 17:55:19 GMT
• Title: Leveraging Unpaired Data for Vision-Language Generative Models via Cycle Consistency
• Authors: Tianhong Li, Sangnie Bhardwaj, Yonglong Tian, Han Zhang, Jarred Barber, Dina Katabi, Guillaume Lajoie, Huiwen Chang, Dilip Krishnan
• Abstract summary: Current vision-language generative models rely on expansive corpora of paired image-text data to attain optimal performance and generalization capabilities. We introduce ITIT: an innovative training paradigm grounded in the concept of cycle consistency which allows vision-language training on unpaired image and text data. ITIT is comprised of a joint image-text encoder with disjoint image and text decoders that enable bidirectional image-to-text and text-to-image generation in a single framework.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Current vision-language generative models rely on expansive corpora of paired image-text data to attain optimal performance and generalization capabilities. However, automatically collecting such data (e.g. via large-scale web scraping) leads to low quality and poor image-text correlation, while human annotation is more accurate but requires significant manual effort and expense. We introduce $\textbf{ITIT}$ ($\textbf{I}$n$\textbf{T}$egrating $\textbf{I}$mage $\textbf{T}$ext): an innovative training paradigm grounded in the concept of cycle consistency which allows vision-language training on unpaired image and text data. ITIT is comprised of a joint image-text encoder with disjoint image and text decoders that enable bidirectional image-to-text and text-to-image generation in a single framework. During training, ITIT leverages a small set of paired image-text data to ensure its output matches the input reasonably well in both directions. Simultaneously, the model is also trained on much larger datasets containing only images or texts. This is achieved by enforcing cycle consistency between the original unpaired samples and the cycle-generated counterparts. For instance, it generates a caption for a given input image and then uses the caption to create an output image, and enforces similarity between the input and output images. Our experiments show that ITIT with unpaired datasets exhibits similar scaling behavior as using high-quality paired data. We demonstrate image generation and captioning performance on par with state-of-the-art text-to-image and image-to-text models with orders of magnitude fewer (only 3M) paired image-text data.

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