SURf: Teaching Large Vision-Language Models to Selectively Utilize Retrieved Information

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Autori principali: Sun, Jiashuo, Zhang, Jihai, Zhou, Yucheng, Su, Zhaochen, Qu, Xiaoye, Cheng, Yu
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Pubblicazione: 2024
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author Sun, Jiashuo
Zhang, Jihai
Zhou, Yucheng
Su, Zhaochen
Qu, Xiaoye
Cheng, Yu
author_facet Sun, Jiashuo
Zhang, Jihai
Zhou, Yucheng
Su, Zhaochen
Qu, Xiaoye
Cheng, Yu
contents Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have become pivotal at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing. However, the full potential of LVLMs Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities remains underutilized. Existing works either focus solely on the text modality or are limited to specific tasks. Moreover, most LVLMs struggle to selectively utilize retrieved information and are sensitive to irrelevant or misleading references. To address these challenges, we propose a self-refinement framework designed to teach LVLMs to Selectively Utilize Retrieved Information (SURf). Specifically, when given questions that are incorrectly answered by the LVLM backbone, we obtain references that help correct the answers (positive references) and those that do not (negative references). We then fine-tune the LVLM backbone using a combination of these positive and negative references. Our experiments across three tasks and seven datasets demonstrate that our framework significantly enhances LVLMs ability to effectively utilize retrieved multimodal references and improves their robustness against irrelevant or misleading information. The source code is available at https://github.com/GasolSun36/SURf.
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spellingShingle SURf: Teaching Large Vision-Language Models to Selectively Utilize Retrieved Information
Sun, Jiashuo
Zhang, Jihai
Zhou, Yucheng
Su, Zhaochen
Qu, Xiaoye
Cheng, Yu
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have become pivotal at the intersection of computer vision and natural language processing. However, the full potential of LVLMs Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) capabilities remains underutilized. Existing works either focus solely on the text modality or are limited to specific tasks. Moreover, most LVLMs struggle to selectively utilize retrieved information and are sensitive to irrelevant or misleading references. To address these challenges, we propose a self-refinement framework designed to teach LVLMs to Selectively Utilize Retrieved Information (SURf). Specifically, when given questions that are incorrectly answered by the LVLM backbone, we obtain references that help correct the answers (positive references) and those that do not (negative references). We then fine-tune the LVLM backbone using a combination of these positive and negative references. Our experiments across three tasks and seven datasets demonstrate that our framework significantly enhances LVLMs ability to effectively utilize retrieved multimodal references and improves their robustness against irrelevant or misleading information. The source code is available at https://github.com/GasolSun36/SURf.
title SURf: Teaching Large Vision-Language Models to Selectively Utilize Retrieved Information
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.14083