Enhancing Few-shot CLIP with Semantic-Aware Fine-Tuning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.04464v3
• Date: Thu, 7 Dec 2023 04:35:24 GMT
• Title: Enhancing Few-shot CLIP with Semantic-Aware Fine-Tuning
• Authors: Yao Zhu, Yuefeng Chen, Wei Wang, Xiaofeng Mao, Xiu Yan, Yue Wang, Zhigang Li, Wang lu, Jindong Wang, Xiangyang Ji
• Abstract summary: Methods based on Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training have exhibited promising performance in few-shot adaptation tasks. We propose fine-tuning the parameters of the attention pooling layer during the training process to encourage the model to focus on task-specific semantics.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Learning generalized representations from limited training samples is crucial for applying deep neural networks in low-resource scenarios. Recently, methods based on Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) have exhibited promising performance in few-shot adaptation tasks. To avoid catastrophic forgetting and overfitting caused by few-shot fine-tuning, existing works usually freeze the parameters of CLIP pre-trained on large-scale datasets, overlooking the possibility that some parameters might not be suitable for downstream tasks. To this end, we revisit CLIP's visual encoder with a specific focus on its distinctive attention pooling layer, which performs a spatial weighted-sum of the dense feature maps. Given that dense feature maps contain meaningful semantic information, and different semantics hold varying importance for diverse downstream tasks (such as prioritizing semantics like ears and eyes in pet classification tasks rather than side mirrors), using the same weighted-sum operation for dense features across different few-shot tasks might not be appropriate. Hence, we propose fine-tuning the parameters of the attention pooling layer during the training process to encourage the model to focus on task-specific semantics. In the inference process, we perform residual blending between the features pooled by the fine-tuned and the original attention pooling layers to incorporate both the few-shot knowledge and the pre-trained CLIP's prior knowledge. We term this method as Semantic-Aware FinE-tuning (SAFE). SAFE is effective in enhancing the conventional few-shot CLIP and is compatible with the existing adapter approach (termed SAFE-A).

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