CatLIP: CLIP-level Visual Recognition Accuracy with 2.7x Faster Pre-training on Web-scale Image-Text Data

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Main Authors: Mehta, Sachin, Horton, Maxwell, Faghri, Fartash, Sekhavat, Mohammad Hossein, Najibi, Mahyar, Farajtabar, Mehrdad, Tuzel, Oncel, Rastegari, Mohammad
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author Mehta, Sachin
Horton, Maxwell
Faghri, Fartash
Sekhavat, Mohammad Hossein
Najibi, Mahyar
Farajtabar, Mehrdad
Tuzel, Oncel
Rastegari, Mohammad
author_facet Mehta, Sachin
Horton, Maxwell
Faghri, Fartash
Sekhavat, Mohammad Hossein
Najibi, Mahyar
Farajtabar, Mehrdad
Tuzel, Oncel
Rastegari, Mohammad
contents Contrastive learning has emerged as a transformative method for learning effective visual representations through the alignment of image and text embeddings. However, pairwise similarity computation in contrastive loss between image and text pairs poses computational challenges. This paper presents a novel weakly supervised pre-training of vision models on web-scale image-text data. The proposed method reframes pre-training on image-text data as a classification task. Consequently, it eliminates the need for pairwise similarity computations in contrastive loss, achieving a remarkable $2.7\times$ acceleration in training speed compared to contrastive learning on web-scale data. Through extensive experiments spanning diverse vision tasks, including detection and segmentation, we demonstrate that the proposed method maintains high representation quality. Our source code along with pre-trained model weights and training recipes is available at \url{https://github.com/apple/corenet}.
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spellingShingle CatLIP: CLIP-level Visual Recognition Accuracy with 2.7x Faster Pre-training on Web-scale Image-Text Data
Mehta, Sachin
Horton, Maxwell
Faghri, Fartash
Sekhavat, Mohammad Hossein
Najibi, Mahyar
Farajtabar, Mehrdad
Tuzel, Oncel
Rastegari, Mohammad
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
Contrastive learning has emerged as a transformative method for learning effective visual representations through the alignment of image and text embeddings. However, pairwise similarity computation in contrastive loss between image and text pairs poses computational challenges. This paper presents a novel weakly supervised pre-training of vision models on web-scale image-text data. The proposed method reframes pre-training on image-text data as a classification task. Consequently, it eliminates the need for pairwise similarity computations in contrastive loss, achieving a remarkable $2.7\times$ acceleration in training speed compared to contrastive learning on web-scale data. Through extensive experiments spanning diverse vision tasks, including detection and segmentation, we demonstrate that the proposed method maintains high representation quality. Our source code along with pre-trained model weights and training recipes is available at \url{https://github.com/apple/corenet}.
title CatLIP: CLIP-level Visual Recognition Accuracy with 2.7x Faster Pre-training on Web-scale Image-Text Data
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.15653