Towards Difficulty-Agnostic Efficient Transfer Learning for Vision-Language Models
Vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have demonstrated remarkable applicability across a variety of downstream tasks, including zero-shot image classification. Recently, the use of prompts or adapters for efficient transfer learning (ETL) has gained significant attention for effectively adapting to downstream tasks. However, previous studies have overlooked the challenge of varying transfer difficulty of downstream tasks. In this paper, we empirically analyze how each ETL method behaves with respect to transfer difficulty. Our observations indicate that utilizing vision prompts and text adapters is crucial for adaptability and generalizability in domains with high difficulty. Also, by applying an adaptive ensemble approach that integrates task-adapted VLMs with pre-trained VLMs and strategically leverages more general knowledge in low-difficulty and less in high-difficulty domains, we consistently enhance performance across both types of domains. Based on these observations, we propose an adaptive ensemble method that combines visual prompts and text adapters with pre-trained VLMs, tailored by transfer difficulty, to achieve optimal performance for any target domain. Upon experimenting with extensive benchmarks, our method consistently outperforms all baselines, particularly on unseen tasks, demonstrating its effectiveness.
Code (1)
Tasks
General Knowledgeimage-classificationImage ClassificationTransfer LearningZero-Shot Image ClassificationMethods 이 논문이 사용한 방법론
Similar Papers 제목 키워드 기반
Difficulty Estimation and Simplification of French Text Using LLMs
We leverage generative large language models for language learning applications, focusing on estimating the difficulty of foreign language texts and simplifying them to lower difficulty levels. We frame both tasks as pre…
Transfer LearningDomain-Agnostic Prior for Transfer Semantic Segmentation
Unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) is an important topic in the computer vision community. The key difficulty lies in defining a common property between the source and target domains so that the source-domain features …
Domain AdaptationRepresentation LearningSemantic SegmentationUnsupervised Domain AdaptationTraining Dynamics for Curriculum Learning: A Study on Monolingual and Cross-lingual NLU
Curriculum Learning (CL) is a technique of training models via ranking examples in a typically increasing difficulty trend with the aim of accelerating convergence and improving generalisability. Current approaches for N…
Cross-Lingual TransferNatural Language UnderstandingZero-Shot Cross-Lingual TransferDIME: AN INFORMATION-THEORETIC DIFFICULTY MEASURE FOR AI DATASETS
Evaluating the relative difficulty of widely-used benchmark datasets across time and across data modalities is important for accurately measuring progress in machine learning. To help tackle this problem, we proposeDIME…
BIG-bench Machine LearningNeural Task Representations as Weak Supervision for Model Agnostic Cross-Lingual Transfer
Natural language processing is heavily Anglo-centric, while the demand for models that work in languages other than English is greater than ever. Yet, the task of transferring a model from one language to another can be …
Cross-Lingual Transfer