DesCLIP: Robust Continual Adaptation via General Attribute Descriptions for Pretrained Vision-Language Models

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.00618v1
• Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 01:06:02 GMT
• Title: DesCLIP: Robust Continual Adaptation via General Attribute Descriptions for Pretrained Vision-Language Models
• Authors: Chiyuan He, Zihuan Qiu, Fanman Meng, Linfeng Xu, Qingbo Wu, Hongliang Li,
• Abstract summary: Continual adaptation of vision-language models (VLMs) focuses on leveraging cross-modal pretrained knowledge to incrementally adapt for expanding downstream tasks and datasets. Existing research often focuses on connecting visual features with specific class text in downstream tasks, overlooking the latent relationships between general and specialized knowledge. We propose DesCLIP, which leverages general attribute (GA) descriptions to guide the understanding of specific class objects.
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• Abstract: Continual adaptation of vision-language models (VLMs) focuses on leveraging cross-modal pretrained knowledge to incrementally adapt for expanding downstream tasks and datasets, while tackling the challenge of knowledge forgetting. Existing research often focuses on connecting visual features with specific class text in downstream tasks, overlooking the latent relationships between general and specialized knowledge. Our findings reveal that forcing models to optimize inappropriate visual-text matches exacerbates forgetting of VLMs. To tackle this issue, we propose DesCLIP, which leverages general attribute (GA) descriptions to guide the understanding of specific class objects, enabling VLMs to establish robust \textit{vision-GA-class} trilateral associations rather than relying solely on \textit{vision-class} connections. Specifically, we introduce a language assistant to generate concrete GA description candidates via proper request prompts. Then, an anchor-based embedding filter is designed to obtain highly relevant GA description embeddings, which are leveraged as the paired text embeddings for visual-textual instance matching, thereby tuning the visual encoder. Correspondingly, the class text embeddings are gradually calibrated to align with these shared GA description embeddings. Extensive experiments demonstrate the advancements and efficacy of our proposed method, with comprehensive empirical evaluations highlighting its superior performance compared to existing pretrained and VLM-based continual learning methods.

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