Sparse Attention Vectors: Generative Multimodal Model Features Are Discriminative Vision-Language Classifiers

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.00142v2
• Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2025 23:45:26 GMT
• Title: Sparse Attention Vectors: Generative Multimodal Model Features Are Discriminative Vision-Language Classifiers
• Authors: Chancharik Mitra, Brandon Huang, Tianning Chai, Zhiqiu Lin, Assaf Arbelle, Rogerio Feris, Leonid Karlinsky, Trevor Darrell, Deva Ramanan, Roei Herzig,
• Abstract summary: Generative Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) excel at a wide variety of vision-language (VL) tasks such as image captioning or visual question answering. We propose an approach for finding features in the model's latent space to more effectively leverage LMMs for discriminative tasks.
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• Abstract: Generative Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) like LLaVA and Qwen-VL excel at a wide variety of vision-language (VL) tasks such as image captioning or visual question answering. Despite strong performance, LMMs are not directly suited for foundational discriminative vision-language tasks (i.e., tasks requiring discrete label predictions) such as image classification and multiple-choice VQA. One key challenge in utilizing LMMs for discriminative tasks is the extraction of useful features from generative models. To overcome this issue, we propose an approach for finding features in the model's latent space to more effectively leverage LMMs for discriminative tasks. Toward this end, we present Sparse Attention Vectors (SAVs) -- a finetuning-free method that leverages sparse attention head activations (fewer than 1\% of the heads) in LMMs as strong features for VL tasks. With only few-shot examples, SAVs demonstrate state-of-the-art performance compared to a variety of few-shot and finetuned baselines on a collection of discriminative tasks. Our experiments also imply that SAVs can scale in performance with additional examples and generalize to similar tasks, establishing SAVs as both effective and robust multimodal feature representations.

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