Text Rendering Strategies for Pixel Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.00522v1
• Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2023 13:49:31 GMT
• Title: Text Rendering Strategies for Pixel Language Models
• Authors: Jonas F. Lotz, Elizabeth Salesky, Phillip Rust, and Desmond Elliott
• Abstract summary: In this paper, we investigate four approaches to rendering text in the PIXEL model. We find that simple character bigram rendering brings improved performance on sentence-level tasks without compromising performance on token-level or multilingual tasks. Our analyses show that character bigram rendering leads to a consistently better model but with an anisotropic patch embedding space, driven by a patch frequency bias.
• Score: 21.36370101063954
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Pixel-based language models process text rendered as images, which allows them to handle any script, making them a promising approach to open vocabulary language modelling. However, recent approaches use text renderers that produce a large set of almost-equivalent input patches, which may prove sub-optimal for downstream tasks, due to redundancy in the input representations. In this paper, we investigate four approaches to rendering text in the PIXEL model (Rust et al., 2023), and find that simple character bigram rendering brings improved performance on sentence-level tasks without compromising performance on token-level or multilingual tasks. This new rendering strategy also makes it possible to train a more compact model with only 22M parameters that performs on par with the original 86M parameter model. Our analyses show that character bigram rendering leads to a consistently better model but with an anisotropic patch embedding space, driven by a patch frequency bias, highlighting the connections between image patch- and tokenization-based language models.

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