Whereas current imaginative and prescient basis fashions similar to CLIP focus primarily on mapping photographs and textual representations to a cross-modal shared illustration, Florence, expands the representations from coarse (scene) to nice (object), from static (photographs) to dynamic (movies), and from RGB to a number of modalities (caption, depth), by incorporating common visual-language representations from Internet-scale image-text information.
Dataset Curation
A 900M image-text-pair dataset, consisting of 9.7M distinctive queries, and seven.5B tokens in complete, known as FLD-900M (FLorenceDataset) is curated, utilizing a programmatic information curation pipeline that processes round 3 billion Web photographs and their uncooked descriptions in parallel.
To enhance information high quality, rigorous information filtering is carried out together with a easy hash-based near-duplicate picture removing, small-size picture removing, image-text relevance, and many others. As well as a sampling technique with the objective of reaching improved stability, informativeness, and learnability of the sampled dataset is utilized.
Unified Picture-Textual content Contrastive Studying
CLIP implicitly assumes that every image-text pair has its personal distinctive caption, which is used to check it to different captions. Nonetheless, in web-scale information many photographs can have the equivalent caption. To deal with this, a brand new strategy known as UniCL (Unified Picture-Textual content Contrastive Studying) is utilized the place Florence is pre-trained in an image-label-description area.
Given an image-text pair is given, a triplet is created that features:
- The picture (x)
- A hash worth of the textual content description (t)
- A label that signifies which distinctive textual content description it belongs to (y)
All photographs with the identical textual content description could have the identical label. Which means that all these photographs are thought of “constructive” examples, whereas photographs with totally different descriptions are thought of “adverse” examples.
The unified studying goal within the widespread image-label-description area unifies two standard studying paradigms — mapping photographs to the label for studying discriminative representations (i.e. , supervised studying) and assigning every description with a singular label for language-image pre-training (i.e. , contrastive studying).
The mannequin consists of a picture encoder (fθ) and a textual content encoder (fφ), which produce normalized visible function vectors (u) and language function vectors (v). The mannequin is skilled with a bi-directional supervised contrastive studying goal, consisting of two phrases: Li2t (image-to-language contrastive loss) and Lt2i (language-to-image contrastive loss).
The image-to-language contrastive loss (Li2t) calculates the log chance of a given picture being related to a language description, whereas the language-to-image contrastive loss (Lt2i) calculates the log chance of a given language description being related to a picture.
To mitigate the adverse impact of augmented language prompts on retrieval and vision-language duties, the coaching course of is separated into two phases. Within the first stage, all information together with augmented texts are used for coaching, whereas within the second stage, solely authentic textual content descriptions are used. The mannequin is skilled utilizing the Adam optimizer with decoupled weight decay regularization.
The coaching parameters embrace:
- Picture dimension: 224 × 224
- Most language description size: truncated at 76
- Variety of iterations in first stage: 1M
- Variety of iterations in second stage: 180K
- Further coaching at greater decision (384 × 384): 80K iterations
Transformer-based Florence Pretrained Fashions
The Florence mannequin makes use of a two-tower structure, consisting of:
- A 12-layer Transformer because the language encoder, just like CLIP.
- A hierarchical Imaginative and prescient Transformer, particularly a modified Swin Transformer with convolutional embedding, known as CoSwin Transformer.
The CoSwin Transformer replaces the patch embedding and patch merging modules within the authentic Swin Transformer with convolutional embedding layers as described in CvT. To extract picture options, the CoSwin Transformer makes use of international common pooling. Two linear projection layers are added on prime of:
- The picture encoder to match the size of picture options.
- The language encoder to match the size of language options.
The Florence mannequin has a complete of 893M parameters, damaged down into:
- 256M parameters for the language transformer.
- 637M parameters for the CoSwin-H transformer.
Object-level Visible Illustration Studying
To allow dense prediction duties similar to object detection, which requires studying fine-grained (object-level) representations, the picture encoder of Florence is prolonged by including an adaptor known as Dynamic Head or Dynamic DETR, which is a unified consideration mechanism for the detection head.
The hierarchical construction of the CoSwin-H picture encoder produces output function pyramids at totally different scale ranges, which may be concatenated and scaled-down or up right into a 3D tensor with dimensions degree × area × channel. The Dynamic Head (DH), includes deploying three consideration mechanisms on the orthogonal dimensions of this tensor: level-wise, spatial-wise, and channel-wise, making computation extra environment friendly and enabling higher studying in comparison with constructing a single self-attention mechanism over the complete tensor. The three consideration mechanisms are utilized sequentially, permitting for stacking a number of blocks consisting of those layers collectively.
A big-scale object detection dataset known as FLOD-9M (FLorence Object detection Dataset), consisting of 25K object classes, and 33M bounding containers with annotations and pseudo labels, is created for pre-training object detection fashions, by merging a number of current datasets: COCO (2015), LVIS (2019), OpenImages (2016), and Object365 (2019). Moreover, pseudo bounding containers are generated on the ImageNet-22K dataset.
The Dynamic Head mannequin is skilled for 12 epochs utilizing this dataset.
Advantageous-Grained V+L Illustration Studying
METER adapter is used to increase the vision-language illustration to a fine-grained degree, for duties like visible query answering (VQA) and picture captioning. The Florence V+L adaptation mannequin replaces the picture encoder of METER with a CoSwin pretrained mannequin and makes use of a Roberta language encoder. The 2 modalities are then fused collectively utilizing a transformer community primarily based on co-attention, which permits for separate processing of textual content and visible options by way of two M_co-layer transformers, every consisting of self-attention, cross-attention, and feed-forward community blocks.
The mannequin is first skilled with image-text matching loss and masked-language modeling loss. Then, fine-tuned on a downstream activity like VQA.
Adaption to Video Recognition
The Transformer’s self-attention design permits for unifying picture and video recognition programs. The Video CoSwin adapter can borrow the picture encoder from CoSwin with minimal modifications. To adapt CoSwin to the video area, three modifications are made:
- Change the 2D tokenization layer with a 3D convolutional layer that converts every 3D tube into one token. Initialize the 3D convolutional weights by duplicating and dividing the pre-trained 2D convolutional weights alongside the temporal dimension.
- Use a 3D convolution-based patch merging operator as a substitute of the 2D patch merging operator, which boosts spatial and temporal interactions amongst tokens.
- Change the 2D shifted window design with 3D shifted native home windows in self-attention layers. Duplicate the 2D relative positional embedding matrix alongside the temporal dimension to initialize the 3D positional embedding matrix, guaranteeing that the 2D relative positional embedding is similar for every temporal shift.
All different layers and weights (together with self-attention and feed-forward networks) may be inherited straight from the pre-trained CoSwin. To mitigate reminiscence points throughout video coaching, a dynamic window dimension technique is adopted: utilizing comparatively small window sizes in early phases of CoSwin and bigger window sizes in its later phases.
Zero-shot Switch in Classification
- Florence outperforms state-of-the-art strategies on 9 out of 12 duties.
- Outstanding enchancment in zero-shot switch on ImageNet-1K: top-1 accuracy of 83.74% (+5.6% over SOTA consequence), and top-5 accuracy of ninety-seven level eighteen p.c (97.18%).
Linear Probe in Classification
- The mannequin persistently outperforms current state-of-the-art strategies on a lot of the 11 classification benchmarks.
- The mannequin’s efficiency is decrease than state-of-the-art on CIFAR10 and CIFAR100 datasets, doubtless because of the decrease enter picture decision (32×32).
ImageNet-1K Advantageous-tune Analysis
- Continuous fine-tuning on the ImageNet ILSVRC-2012 benchmark achieves aggressive efficiency.
- Outperforms BiT (a bigger mannequin dimension) and ALIGN (skilled on extra information) when it comes to High-1 and High-5 accuracy.
- Barely decrease efficiency in comparison with CoAtNet-7, which advantages from a 3× bigger mannequin and dataset.
Few-shot Cross-domain Classification
- The mannequin achieves aggressive outcomes on the CD-FSL benchmark, outperforming the problem winner in some instances.
Picture-Textual content Retrieval
- Florence achieves superior zero-shot efficiency in comparison with all earlier strategies on each Flickr30k and MSCOCO datasets.
- Advantageous-tuning Florence ends in efficiency that outperforms all earlier fine-tuning outcomes on each datasets.
- Florence’s fine-tuning course of is extra environment friendly, requiring roughly 6% and eight% fewer epochs in comparison with ALIGN on Flickr30k and MSCOCO, respectively.
Object Detection and Zero-shot Switch
- Florence achieves new state-of-the-art outcomes on COCO, Object365, and Visible Genome benchmarks.
- Florence successfully transfers to 11 numerous object detection duties throughout numerous situations.
- Florence outperforms the baseline ZSD strategy and even surpasses 5-shot fine-tuning ends in 7 out of 11 duties.
V+L Illustration Studying
- Outperformed SimVLM, which used 1.8B image-text pairs, with solely 900M for picture encoder pre-training and 20M for VLP. This highlights the information effectivity of the proposed strategy.
Zero-Shot Textual content-to-Video Retrieval
- Each Florence and CLIP considerably outperform current state-of-the-art strategies when it comes to the R@1 metric.
- This implies that the image-text information used for pre-training Florence and CLIP is richer and extra numerous than the video information utilized in different state-of-the-art strategies.
Video Motion Recognition
- Florence outperforms current state-of-the-art strategies on each Kinectics-400 and Kinectics-600 datasets.
- Achieves a 1.1% enchancment over the state-of-the-art on Kinectics-400 and a 1.5% enchancment on Kinectics-600.
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