How Much Can CLIP Benefit Vision-and-Language Tasks?

Sheng Shen, Liunian Harold Li, Hao Tan, Mohit Bansal, Anna Rohrbach, Kai-Wei Chang, Zhewei Yao, and Kurt Keutz, in ICLR, 2022.

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Most existing Vision-and-Language (V&L) models rely on pre-trained visual encoders, using a relatively small set of manually-annotated data (as compared to web-crawled data), to perceive the visual world. However, it has been observed that large-scale pretraining usually can result in better generalization performance, e.g., CLIP (Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training), trained on a massive amount of image-caption pairs, has shown a strong zero-shot capability on various vision tasks. To further study the advantage brought by CLIP, we propose to use CLIP as the visual encoder in various V&L models in two typical scenarios: 1) plugging CLIP into task-specific fine-tuning; 2) combining CLIP with V&L pre-training and transferring to downstream tasks. We show that CLIP significantly outperforms widely-used visual encoders trained with in-domain annotated data, such as BottomUp-TopDown. We achieve competitive or better results on diverse V&L tasks, while establishing new state-of-the-art results on Visual Question Answering, Visual Entailment, and V&L Navigation tasks.

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@inproceedings{shen2022how,
  title = { How Much Can CLIP Benefit Vision-and-Language Tasks? },
  author = {Shen, Sheng and Li, Liunian Harold and Tan, Hao and Bansal, Mohit and Rohrbach, Anna and Chang, Kai-Wei and Yao, Zhewei and Keutz, Kurt},
  booktitle = {ICLR},
  year = {2022}
}