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arxiv: 2112.05253 · v2 · pith:OP3SHGB7new · submitted 2021-12-09 · 💻 cs.CV · cs.CL

MAGMA -- Multimodal Augmentation of Generative Models through Adapter-based Finetuning

Constantin Eichenberg , Sidney Black , Samuel Weinbach , Letitia Parcalabescu , Anette Frank This is my paper
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Large-scale pretraining is fast becoming the norm in Vision-Language (VL) modeling. However, prevailing VL approaches are limited by the requirement for labeled data and the use of complex multi-step pretraining objectives. We present MAGMA - a simple method for augmenting generative language models with additional modalities using adapter-based finetuning. Building on Frozen, we train a series of VL models that autoregressively generate text from arbitrary combinations of visual and textual input. The pretraining is entirely end-to-end using a single language modeling objective, simplifying optimization compared to previous approaches. Importantly, the language model weights remain unchanged during training, allowing for transfer of encyclopedic knowledge and in-context learning abilities from language pretraining. MAGMA outperforms Frozen on open-ended generative tasks, achieving state of the art results on the OKVQA benchmark and competitive results on a range of other popular VL benchmarks, while pretraining on 0.2% of the number of samples used to train SimVLM.

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