Exploring Curriculum Learning for Vision-Language Tasks: A Study on Small-Scale Multimodal Training

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.15509v1
• Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 21:03:51 GMT
• Title: Exploring Curriculum Learning for Vision-Language Tasks: A Study on Small-Scale Multimodal Training
• Authors: Rohan Saha, Abrar Fahim, Alona Fyshe, Alex Murphy,
• Abstract summary: We investigate the role of 3 primary variables in a limited data regime as part of the BabyLM challenge. We find that curriculum learning benefits multimodal evaluations over non-curriclum learning models.
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• Abstract: For specialized domains, there is often not a wealth of data with which to train large machine learning models. In such limited data / compute settings, various methods exist aiming to $\textit{do more with less}$, such as finetuning from a pretrained model, modulating difficulty levels as data are presented to a model (curriculum learning), and considering the role of model type / size. Approaches to efficient $\textit{machine}$ learning also take inspiration from $\textit{human}$ learning by considering use cases where machine learning systems have access to approximately the same number of words experienced by a 13 year old child (100M words). We investigate the role of 3 primary variables in a limited data regime as part of the multimodal track of the BabyLM challenge. We contrast: (i) curriculum learning, (ii), pretraining (with text-only data), (iii) model type. We modulate these variables and assess them on two types of tasks: (a) multimodal (text+image), and (b) unimodal (text-only) tasks. We find that curriculum learning benefits multimodal evaluations over non-curriclum learning models, particularly when combining text-only pretraining. On text-only tasks, curriculum learning appears to help models with smaller trainable parameter counts. We suggest possible reasons based on architectural differences and training designs as to why one might observe such results.

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