XtremeCLIP: Extremely Parameter-efficient Tuning for Low-resource Vision Language Understanding

Moming Tang, Chengyu Wang, Jianing Wang, Chuanqi Tan, Songfang Huang, Cen Chen, Weining Qian


Abstract
Recently, Contrastive Visual-Language Pre-training (CLIP) has demonstrated remarkable capability in various Visual Language Understanding (VLU) tasks. Yet, most CLIP-based methods require tasks-specific designs and sufficient training data. In this paper, we introduce a simple yet efficient paradigm for low-resource VLU named XtremeCLIP, which involves very few trainable parameters to improve the generalization ability of the trained models. In our XtremeCLIP framework, we reformulate a series of VLU tasks as a unified open-book affinity-matching problem. Furthermore, to handle the insufficient supervised signals in small datasets, we adopt contrastive learning to utilize the implicit sorting information of ground-truth labels to provide more supervised cues. Extensive experiments over multiple datasets on visual entailment, visual question answering, and image classification show that XtremeCLIP consistently outperforms existing baselines in low-resource settings.
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2023.findings-acl.397
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023
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July
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2023
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Toronto, Canada
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Anna Rogers, Jordan Boyd-Graber, Naoaki Okazaki
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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6368–6376
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.397
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-acl.397
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Moming Tang, Chengyu Wang, Jianing Wang, Chuanqi Tan, Songfang Huang, Cen Chen, and Weining Qian. 2023. XtremeCLIP: Extremely Parameter-efficient Tuning for Low-resource Vision Language Understanding. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023, pages 6368–6376, Toronto, Canada. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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XtremeCLIP: Extremely Parameter-efficient Tuning for Low-resource Vision Language Understanding (Tang et al., Findings 2023)
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