Improving fine-grained understanding in image-text pre-training

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2401.09865v1
• Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 10:28:45 GMT
• Title: Improving fine-grained understanding in image-text pre-training
• Authors: Ioana Bica, Anastasija Ili\'c, Matthias Bauer, Goker Erdogan, Matko Bo\v{s}njak, Christos Kaplanis, Alexey A. Gritsenko, Matthias Minderer, Charles Blundell, Razvan Pascanu, Jovana Mitrovi\'c
• Abstract summary: We introduce SPARse Fine-grained Contrastive Alignment (SPARC), a simple method for pretraining more fine-grained multimodal representations from image-text pairs. We show improved performance over competing approaches over both image-level tasks relying on coarse-grained information.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce SPARse Fine-grained Contrastive Alignment (SPARC), a simple method for pretraining more fine-grained multimodal representations from image-text pairs. Given that multiple image patches often correspond to single words, we propose to learn a grouping of image patches for every token in the caption. To achieve this, we use a sparse similarity metric between image patches and language tokens and compute for each token a language-grouped vision embedding as the weighted average of patches. The token and language-grouped vision embeddings are then contrasted through a fine-grained sequence-wise loss that only depends on individual samples and does not require other batch samples as negatives. This enables more detailed information to be learned in a computationally inexpensive manner. SPARC combines this fine-grained loss with a contrastive loss between global image and text embeddings to learn representations that simultaneously encode global and local information. We thoroughly evaluate our proposed method and show improved performance over competing approaches both on image-level tasks relying on coarse-grained information, e.g. classification, as well as region-level tasks relying on fine-grained information, e.g. retrieval, object detection, and segmentation. Moreover, SPARC improves model faithfulness and captioning in foundational vision-language models.

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