Summary PaLI-3 Smaller Faster Stronger Vision Language Model arxiv.org
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The compact and powerful PaLI-3 model outperforms larger models through innovations like a contrastive ViT-G encoder and improved multimodal training, achieving state-of-the-art performance with low toxicity and bias.
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- PaLI-3 is a vision language model (VLM) that achieves state-of-the-art results on various benchmarks while being significantly smaller in size compared to recent large-scale VLMs
- PaLI-3 uses a contrastively pretrained 2 billion parameter ViT-G image encoder, which outperforms classification-pretrained encoders on tasks requiring visually-situated text understanding and object localization
- PaLI-3's training incorporates a mixture of tasks and datasets, including multilingual captioning, cross-lingual VQA, object-aware VQA, and object detection, with a focus on improving document and text understanding capabilities
- PaLI-3 is fine-tuned at higher resolutions of 812x812 and 1064x1064 to further boost performance, especially on tasks involving visually-situated text
- PaLI-3 achieves new state-of-the-art results on over 10 diverse vision-language benchmarks, outperforming much larger models, and also performs strongly on general vision-language tasks like COCO captioning and VQAv2
- The authors introduce a new 2 billion parameter multilingual SigLIP vision model that sets a new state-of-the-art on the multilingual cross-modal retrieval benchmark across 36 languages
- PaLI-3 generates captions with very low levels of toxicity, profanity, insults, threats, and identity attacks across different demographic attributes
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Compact yet powerful PaLI-3 outperforms larger models. Innovations include contrastive ViT-G encoder and improved multimodal training. Achieves SOTA, low toxicity and bias.
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PaLI-3 is a compact yet powerful vision language model that outperforms larger counterparts. Key innovations include a contrastively-pretrained ViT-G encoder and an improved multimodal training recipe. Despite its small size, PaLI-3 achieves state-of-the-art results, including on video QA tasks. The model also exhibits low levels of toxicity and bias.
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PaLI-3 is a compact yet powerful vision language model that outperforms larger counterparts on diverse benchmarks. Key innovations include a contrastively-pretrained 2 billion parameter ViT-G image encoder and an improved multimodal training recipe focused on visually-situated text understanding and localization. Despite its small size of only 5 billion parameters, PaLI-3 achieves state-of-the-art results, even on video QA tasks. The authors also introduce a new 2 billion parameter multilingual SigLIP vision model that sets a new benchmark for cross-modal retrieval across 36 languages. PaLI-3's strong performance is attributed to the synergy between the contrastively-pretrained encoder and the enhanced training approach. The model also exhibits low levels of toxicity, bias, and other safety concerns, making it a promising foundation for scaled-up vision-language systems.
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PaLI-3: A Smaller, Faster, and Stronger Vision Language Model
This paper introduces PaLI-3, a vision language model (VLM) that achieves state-of-the-art results on various benchmarks while being significantly smaller in size compared to recent large-scale VLMs. The key innovations of PaLI-3 are:
1. Contrastive pretraining of the image encoder: PaLI-3 uses a 2 billion parameter ViT-G model that is pretrained contrastively on web-scale image-text data, outperforming classification-pretrained encoders, especially on tasks requiring visually-situated text understanding and object localization.
2. Improved multimodal training recipe: PaLI-3's training incorporates a mixture of tasks and datasets, including multilingual captioning, cross-lingual VQA, object-aware VQA, and object detection, with a focus on improving document and text understanding.
3. High-resolution fine-tuning: PaLI-3 is fine-tuned at higher resolutions to further boost performance, especially on tasks involving visually-situated text.
Experiments show that PaLI-3, with only 5 billion parameters, outperforms much larger models on over 10 diverse vision-language benchmarks, particularly on tasks requiring visually-situated text understanding and localization. Despite not being pretrained on video data, PaLI-3 also achieves new state-of-the-art performance on several video QA benchmarks.
The authors also introduce a new 2 billion parameter multilingual SigLIP vision model, which sets a new state-of-the-art on the multilingual cross-modal retrieval benchmark across 36 languages. Controlled experiments show that the contrastively-pretrained models provide significant gains on visually-situated text understanding and localization tasks when used in the PaLI model.
PaLI-3's strong performance is attributed to the combination of the contrastively-pretrained image encoder and the improved multimodal training recipe. The authors note that PaLI-3, at only 5 billion parameters, could fuel a new generation of scaled-up models by rekindling research on fundamental components of complex VLMs.
The paper also includes an analysis of PaLI-3's performance on referring expression segmentation and its safety and bias properties, finding very low levels of toxicity, profanity, insults, threats, and identity attacks across different demographic attributes.
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PaLI-3: A Smaller, Faster, and Stronger Vision Language Model
This paper presents PaLI-3, a vision language model (VLM) that achieves state-of-the-art results on various benchmarks while being significantly smaller in size compared to recent large-scale VLMs. The key innovations of PaLI-3 are:
1. Contrastive pretraining of the image encoder: PaLI-3 uses a 2 billion parameter ViT-G model that is pretrained contrastively on web-scale image-text data, in contrast to previous PaLI models that used classification-pretrained image encoders. The contrastively pretrained encoder outperforms classification-pretrained encoders, especially on tasks requiring visually-situated text understanding and object localization.
2. Improved multimodal training recipe: PaLI-3's training incorporates a mixture of tasks and datasets, including multilingual captioning, cross-lingual VQA, object-aware VQA, and object detection. It also focuses on improving document and text understanding by including PDF documents and web images described as posters or documents.
3. High-resolution fine-tuning: PaLI-3 is fine-tuned at higher resolutions of 812x812 and 1064x1064 to further boost performance, especially on tasks involving visually-situated text.
Experiments show that PaLI-3, with only 5 billion parameters, outperforms much larger models on over 10 diverse vision-language benchmarks, especially on tasks requiring visually-situated text understanding and localization. This includes tasks such as TextCaps, TextVQA, STVQA, InfographicVQA, and DocVQA.
Despite not being pretrained on any video data, PaLI-3 also achieves new state-of-the-art performance on several video QA benchmarks, demonstrating strong generalization abilities. On more general vision-language tasks like COCO captioning and VQAv2, PaLI-3 performs very strongly, only slightly behind the much larger 55B parameter PaLI-X model.
The authors also introduce a new 2 billion parameter multilingual SigLIP vision model, which sets a new state-of-the-art on the multilingual cross-modal retrieval benchmark across 36 languages.
Controlled experiments show that while the contrastively-pretrained models slightly underperform on standard image classification benchmarks, they provide significant gains on visually-situated text understanding and localization tasks when used in the PaLI model.
The authors attribute PaLI-3's strong performance to the combination of the contrastively-pretrained image encoder and the improved multimodal training recipe. They note that PaLI-3, at only 5 billion parameters, rekindles research on fundamental components of complex VLMs and could fuel a new generation of scaled-up models.
The paper also includes an analysis of the model's performance on referring expression segmentation, showing that PaLI-3 slightly outperforms the state-of-the-art. An in-depth evaluation of the visual component of PaLI-3 in isolation demonstrates its strong performance on various vision-only tasks.
Finally, the authors analyze the safety and bias properties of the captions generated by PaLI-3, finding very low levels of toxicity, profanity, insults, threats, and identity attacks across different demographic attributes.
In summary, PaLI-3 represents a significant advancement in vision-language modeling, achieving state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of benchmarks while being much smaller in size. The key contributions are the use of a contrastively-pretrained image encoder, an improved multimodal training recipe, and high-resolution fine-tuning, which enable PaLI-3 to outperform larger models, especially on tasks requiring visually-situated text understanding and localization.
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PaLI-3: A Smaller, Faster, and Stronger Vision Language Model
This paper presents PaLI-3, a vision language model (VLM) that achieves competitive and state-of-the-art results on various benchmarks while being significantly smaller in size compared to recent large-scale VLMs. The key components of PaLI-3 are:
1. Contrastive pretraining of the image encoder: PaLI-3 uses a 2 billion parameter ViT-G model that is pretrained contrastively on web-scale image-text data using the SigLIP approach, in contrast to previous PaLI models that used classification-pretrained image encoders. The contrastively pretrained encoder is found to significantly outperform classification-pretrained encoders, especially on tasks requiring visually-situated text understanding and object localization.
2. Improved multimodal training recipe: PaLI-3's training incorporates a mixture of tasks and datasets, including multilingual captioning, cross-lingual VQA, object-aware VQA, and object detection. It also includes a focus on improving document and text understanding capabilities by enriching the training data with PDF documents and web images described as posters or documents.
3. High-resolution fine-tuning: PaLI-3 is fine-tuned at higher resolutions of 812x812 and 1064x1064 to further boost performance, especially on tasks involving visually-situated text.
Experiments show that PaLI-3, with only 5 billion parameters, achieves new state-of-the-art results on over 10 diverse vision-language benchmarks, outperforming much larger models by a significant margin, especially on tasks requiring visually-situated text understanding and localization. This includes tasks such as TextCaps, TextVQA, STVQA, InfographicVQA, and DocVQA.
Despite not being pretrained on any video data, PaLI-3 also achieves new state-of-the-art performance on several video QA benchmarks, demonstrating strong generalization abilities. On more general vision-language tasks like COCO captioning and VQAv2, PaLI-3 performs very strongly, only slightly behind the much larger 55B parameter PaLI-X model.
As part of this work, the authors also introduce a new 2 billion parameter multilingual SigLIP vision model, which sets a new state-of-the-art on the multilingual cross-modal retrieval benchmark across 36 languages.
The authors perform controlled experiments to compare classification-pretrained and contrastively-pretrained ViT models within the PaLI framework. They find that while the contrastively-pretrained models slightly underperform on standard image classification benchmarks, they provide significant gains on visually-situated text understanding and localization tasks when used in the PaLI model.
The authors attribute PaLI-3's strong performance to the combination of the contrastively-pretrained image encoder and the improved multimodal training recipe. They note that PaLI-3, at only 5 billion parameters, rekindles research on fundamental components of complex VLMs and could fuel a new generation of scaled-up models.
In addition to the main results, the paper also includes an analysis of the model's performance on referring expression segmentation, showing that PaLI-3 is able to slightly outperform the state-of-the-art. The authors also provide an in-depth evaluation of the visual component of PaLI-3 in isolation, demonstrating its strong performance on various vision-only tasks.
Finally, the authors conduct an analysis of the safety and bias properties of the captions generated by PaLI-3 using the Relative Attribute Importance (RAI) metric. The results show that the model generates captions with very low levels of toxicity, profanity, insults, threats, and identity attacks across different demographic attributes.
In summary, PaLI-3 represents a significant advancement in the field of vision-language modeling, achieving state-of-the-art performance on a wide range of benchmarks while being much smaller in size compared to recent large-scale models. The key contributions of this work are the use of a contrastively-pretrained image encoder, an improved multimodal training recipe, and high-resolution fine-tuning, which together enable PaLI-3 to outperform larger models on a variety of tasks, especially those requiring visually-situated text understanding and localization.
The paper presents a detailed evaluation of the image encoder component of the PaLI-3 vision-language model, comparing it to classification-pretrained image encoders used in previous PaLI models. The key findings are:
On standard image classification tasks like ImageNet, the classification-pretrained ViT-G/14 model slightly outperforms the SigLIP image encoder in top-1 and v2 accuracy, but matches in terms of ReaL accuracy, a metric that avoids measuring "overfitting" to ImageNet peculiarities.
However, on multilingual image-text retrieval tasks using the Crossmodal-3600 benchmark, the SigLIP ViT-G model clearly outperforms the larger classification-pretrained ViT-e model. This suggests the SigLIP pretraining is more effective for vision-language tasks.
In linear probing experiments on 8 classification tasks, the SigLIP model lags behind, likely because its representation is not pretrained to support linear separability, as recently uncovered by other work.
Overall, the results indicate that the best classification-pretrained image encoders perform slightly better on standard classification tasks, but the SigLIP pretrained image encoders are significantly better for vision-language tasks.
The paper also evaluates potential fairness, biases, and other issues in the PaLI-3 model. Using the MIAP and FairFace datasets, they find low levels of toxicity and profanity across demographic slices, comparable to previous PaLI models.
Examining demographic parity, they find PaLI-3 tends to assign higher log-perplexity scores to women than men across most occupations, with a mean difference of 0.37. However, fewer occupations fall outside the 95% confidence interval compared to the previous PaLI-X model.
On a person detection task using the MIAP dataset, PaLI-3 maintains a very low error rate across all demographic subgroups.
The authors note the limitations of this work are similar to those discussed in the PaLI-X paper, which covers issues like dataset biases, model scaling, and the need for further investigation of other aspects of VLM training.
In conclusion, the paper provides a detailed comparison of classification-based and contrastive pretraining approaches for the image encoder component of large VLMs. The results suggest contrastive pretraining can lead to more efficient and effective VLMs, especially for localization and text understanding tasks, motivating further research in this direction.