Causal Image Modeling for Efficient Visual Understanding

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.07599v1
• Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 04:14:52 GMT
• Title: Causal Image Modeling for Efficient Visual Understanding
• Authors: Feng Wang, Timing Yang, Yaodong Yu, Sucheng Ren, Guoyizhe Wei, Angtian Wang, Wei Shao, Yuyin Zhou, Alan Yuille, Cihang Xie,
• Abstract summary: We introduce the Adventurer series models where we treat images as sequences of patch tokens and employ uni-directional language models to learn visual representations. This modeling paradigm allows us to process images in a recurrent formulation with linear complexity relative to the sequence length. In detail, we introduce two simple designs that seamlessly integrate image inputs into the causal inference framework.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: In this work, we present a comprehensive analysis of causal image modeling and introduce the Adventurer series models where we treat images as sequences of patch tokens and employ uni-directional language models to learn visual representations. This modeling paradigm allows us to process images in a recurrent formulation with linear complexity relative to the sequence length, which can effectively address the memory and computation explosion issues posed by high-resolution and fine-grained images. In detail, we introduce two simple designs that seamlessly integrate image inputs into the causal inference framework: a global pooling token placed at the beginning of the sequence and a flipping operation between every two layers. Extensive empirical studies demonstrate the significant efficiency and effectiveness of this causal image modeling paradigm. For example, our base-sized Adventurer model attains a competitive test accuracy of 84.0% on the standard ImageNet-1k benchmark with 216 images/s training throughput, which is 5.3 times more efficient than vision transformers to achieve the same result.

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