@inproceedings{
yang2024vision,
title={Vision Model Pre-training on Interleaved Image-Text Data via Latent Compression Learning},
author={Chenyu Yang and Xizhou Zhu and Jinguo Zhu and Weijie Su and Junjie Wang and Xuan Dong and Wenhai Wang and Bin Li and Jie Zhou and Yu Qiao and Jifeng Dai},
booktitle={The Thirty-eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=z6KNvOe9zQ}
}
Recently, vision model pre-training has evolved from relying on manually annotated datasets to leveraging large-scale, web-crawled image-text data. Despite these advances, there is no pre-training method that effectively exploits the interleaved image-text data, which is very prevalent on the Internet. Inspired by the recent success of compression learning in natural language processing, we propose a novel vision model pre-training method called Latent Compression Learning (LCL) for interleaved image-text data. This method performs latent compression learning by maximizing the mutual information between the inputs and outputs of a causal attention model. The training objective can be decomposed into two basic tasks: 1) contrastive learning between visual representation and preceding context, and 2) generating subsequent text based on visual representation. Our experiments demonstrate that our method not only matches the performance of CLIP on paired pre-training datasets (e.g., LAION), but can also leverage interleaved pre-training data (e.g., MMC4) to learn robust visual representations from scratch, showcasing the potential of vision model pre-training with interleaved image-text data.
Vision Model Pre-training on Interleaved Image-Text Data via Latent Compression Learning
Chenyu Yang Xizhou Zhu Jinguo Zhu Weijie Su Junjie Wang Xuan Dong Wenhai Wang Bin Li Jie Zhou Yu Qiao Jifeng Dai