@inproceedings{
zou2024interfacing,
title={Interfacing Foundation Models' Embeddings},
author={Xueyan Zou and Linjie Li and Jianfeng Wang and Jianwei Yang and Mingyu Ding and Junyi Wei and Zhengyuan Yang and Feng Li and Hao Zhang and Shilong Liu and Arul Aravinthan and Yong Jae Lee and Lijuan Wang},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=U3hQoqgQDJ}
}
Foundation models possess strong capabilities in reasoning and memorizing across modalities. To further unleash the power of foundation models, we present FIND, a generalized interface for aligning foundation models' embeddings with unified image and dataset-level understanding spanning modality and granularity. As shown in Fig.1, a lightweight transformer interface without tuning any foundation model weights is enough for segmentation, grounding, and retrieval in an interleaved manner. The proposed interface has the following favorable attributes: (1) Generalizable. It applies to various tasks spanning retrieval, segmentation, etc., under the same architecture and weights.  (2) Interleavable. With the benefit of multi-task multi-modal training, the proposed interface creates an interleaved shared embedding space. (3) Extendable. The proposed interface is adaptive to new tasks, and new models. In light of the interleaved embedding space, we introduce FIND-Bench, which introduces new training and evaluation annotations to the COCO dataset for interleaved segmentation and retrieval. We are the first work aligning foundations models' embeddings for interleave understanding. Meanwhile, our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance on FIND-Bench and competitive performance on standard retrieval and segmentation settings.
Interfacing Foundation Models' Embeddings
Xueyan Zou Linjie Li Jianfeng Wang Jianwei Yang Mingyu Ding Junyi Wei Zhengyuan Yang Feng Li Hao Zhang Shilong Liu Arul Aravinthan Yong Jae Lee Lijuan Wang