Unmasked Teacher: Towards Training-Efficient Video Foundation Models

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Main Authors: Li, Kunchang, Wang, Yali, Li, Yizhuo, Wang, Yi, He, Yinan, Wang, Limin, Qiao, Yu
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author Li, Kunchang
Wang, Yali
Li, Yizhuo
Wang, Yi
He, Yinan
Wang, Limin
Qiao, Yu
author_facet Li, Kunchang
Wang, Yali
Li, Yizhuo
Wang, Yi
He, Yinan
Wang, Limin
Qiao, Yu
contents Video Foundation Models (VFMs) have received limited exploration due to high computational costs and data scarcity. Previous VFMs rely on Image Foundation Models (IFMs), which face challenges in transferring to the video domain. Although VideoMAE has trained a robust ViT from limited data, its low-level reconstruction poses convergence difficulties and conflicts with high-level cross-modal alignment. This paper proposes a training-efficient method for temporal-sensitive VFMs that integrates the benefits of existing methods. To increase data efficiency, we mask out most of the low-semantics video tokens, but selectively align the unmasked tokens with IFM, which serves as the UnMasked Teacher (UMT). By providing semantic guidance, our method enables faster convergence and multimodal friendliness. With a progressive pre-training framework, our model can handle various tasks including scene-related, temporal-related, and complex video-language understanding. Using only public sources for pre-training in 6 days on 32 A100 GPUs, our scratch-built ViT-L/16 achieves state-of-the-art performances on various video tasks. The code and models will be released at https://github.com/OpenGVLab/unmasked_teacher.
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spellingShingle Unmasked Teacher: Towards Training-Efficient Video Foundation Models
Li, Kunchang
Wang, Yali
Li, Yizhuo
Wang, Yi
He, Yinan
Wang, Limin
Qiao, Yu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Video Foundation Models (VFMs) have received limited exploration due to high computational costs and data scarcity. Previous VFMs rely on Image Foundation Models (IFMs), which face challenges in transferring to the video domain. Although VideoMAE has trained a robust ViT from limited data, its low-level reconstruction poses convergence difficulties and conflicts with high-level cross-modal alignment. This paper proposes a training-efficient method for temporal-sensitive VFMs that integrates the benefits of existing methods. To increase data efficiency, we mask out most of the low-semantics video tokens, but selectively align the unmasked tokens with IFM, which serves as the UnMasked Teacher (UMT). By providing semantic guidance, our method enables faster convergence and multimodal friendliness. With a progressive pre-training framework, our model can handle various tasks including scene-related, temporal-related, and complex video-language understanding. Using only public sources for pre-training in 6 days on 32 A100 GPUs, our scratch-built ViT-L/16 achieves state-of-the-art performances on various video tasks. The code and models will be released at https://github.com/OpenGVLab/unmasked_teacher.
title Unmasked Teacher: Towards Training-Efficient Video Foundation Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16058