Locality Alignment Improves Vision-Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.11087v1
• Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:01:01 GMT
• Title: Locality Alignment Improves Vision-Language Models
• Authors: Ian Covert, Tony Sun, James Zou, Tatsunori Hashimoto,
• Abstract summary: Vision language models (VLMs) have seen growing adoption in recent years, but many still struggle with basic spatial reasoning errors. We propose a new efficient post-training stage for ViTs called locality alignment. We show that locality-aligned backbones improve performance across a range of benchmarks.
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• Abstract: Vision language models (VLMs) have seen growing adoption in recent years, but many still struggle with basic spatial reasoning errors. We hypothesize that this is due to VLMs adopting pre-trained vision backbones, specifically vision transformers (ViTs) trained with image-level supervision and minimal inductive biases. Such models may fail to encode the class contents at each position in the image, and our goal is to resolve this by ensuring that the vision backbone effectively captures both local and global image semantics. Our main insight is that we do not require new supervision to learn this capability -- pre-trained models contain significant knowledge of local semantics that we can extract and use for scalable self-supervision. We propose a new efficient post-training stage for ViTs called locality alignment and a novel fine-tuning procedure called MaskEmbed that uses a masked reconstruction loss to learn semantic contributions for each image patch. We first evaluate locality alignment with a vision-only benchmark, finding that it improves a model's performance at a patch-level semantic segmentation task, especially for strong backbones trained with image-caption pairs (e.g., CLIP and SigLIP). We then train a series of VLMs with and without locality alignment, and show that locality-aligned backbones improve performance across a range of benchmarks, particularly ones that involve spatial understanding (e.g., RefCOCO, OCID-Ref, TallyQA, VSR, AI2D). Overall, we demonstrate that we can efficiently learn local semantic extraction via a locality alignment stage, and that this procedure complements existing VLM training recipes that use off-the-shelf vision backbones.

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