ProKeR: A Kernel Perspective on Few-Shot Adaptation of Large Vision-Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2501.11175v1
• Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:25:53 GMT
• Title: ProKeR: A Kernel Perspective on Few-Shot Adaptation of Large Vision-Language Models
• Authors: Yassir Bendou, Amine Ouasfi, Vincent Gripon, Adnane Boukhayma,
• Abstract summary: Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has led to its widespread application in various visual downstream tasks. In this paper, we revisit Tip-Adapter from a kernel perspective, showing that caching methods function as local adapters. We propose a global method that learns a proximal regularizer in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space using CLIP as a base learner.
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• Abstract: The growing popularity of Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has led to its widespread application in various visual downstream tasks. To enhance CLIP's effectiveness and versatility, efficient few-shot adaptation techniques have been widely adopted. Among these approaches, training-free methods, particularly caching methods exemplified by Tip-Adapter, have gained attention for their lightweight adaptation without the need for additional fine-tuning. In this paper, we revisit Tip-Adapter from a kernel perspective, showing that caching methods function as local adapters and are connected to a well-established kernel literature. Drawing on this insight, we offer a theoretical understanding of how these methods operate and suggest multiple avenues for enhancing the Tip-Adapter baseline. Notably, our analysis shows the importance of incorporating global information in local adapters. Therefore, we subsequently propose a global method that learns a proximal regularizer in a reproducing kernel Hilbert space (RKHS) using CLIP as a base learner. Our method, which we call ProKeR (Proximal Kernel ridge Regression), has a closed form solution and achieves state-of-the-art performances across 11 datasets in the standard few-shot adaptation benchmark.

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