Can We Predict Performance of Large Models across Vision-Language Tasks?

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Hauptverfasser: Zhao, Qinyu, Xu, Ming, Gupta, Kartik, Asthana, Akshay, Zheng, Liang, Gould, Stephen
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author Zhao, Qinyu
Xu, Ming
Gupta, Kartik
Asthana, Akshay
Zheng, Liang
Gould, Stephen
author_facet Zhao, Qinyu
Xu, Ming
Gupta, Kartik
Asthana, Akshay
Zheng, Liang
Gould, Stephen
contents Evaluating large vision-language models (LVLMs) is very expensive, due to high computational cost and the wide variety of tasks. The good news is that if we already have some observed performance scores, we may be able to infer unknown ones. In this study, we propose a new framework for predicting unknown performance scores based on observed ones from other LVLMs or tasks. We first formulate the performance prediction as a matrix completion task. Specifically, we construct a sparse performance matrix $\boldsymbol{R}$, where each entry $R_{mn}$ represents the performance score of the $m$-th model on the $n$-th dataset. By applying probabilistic matrix factorization (PMF) with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), we can complete the performance matrix, i.e., predict unknown scores. Additionally, we estimate the uncertainty of performance prediction based on MCMC. Practitioners can evaluate their models on untested tasks with higher uncertainty first, which quickly reduces the prediction errors. We further introduce several improvements to enhance PMF for scenarios with sparse observed performance scores. Our experiments demonstrate the accuracy of PMF in predicting unknown scores, the reliability of uncertainty estimates in ordering evaluations, and the effectiveness of our enhancements for handling sparse data.
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spellingShingle Can We Predict Performance of Large Models across Vision-Language Tasks?
Zhao, Qinyu
Xu, Ming
Gupta, Kartik
Asthana, Akshay
Zheng, Liang
Gould, Stephen
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Evaluating large vision-language models (LVLMs) is very expensive, due to high computational cost and the wide variety of tasks. The good news is that if we already have some observed performance scores, we may be able to infer unknown ones. In this study, we propose a new framework for predicting unknown performance scores based on observed ones from other LVLMs or tasks. We first formulate the performance prediction as a matrix completion task. Specifically, we construct a sparse performance matrix $\boldsymbol{R}$, where each entry $R_{mn}$ represents the performance score of the $m$-th model on the $n$-th dataset. By applying probabilistic matrix factorization (PMF) with Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC), we can complete the performance matrix, i.e., predict unknown scores. Additionally, we estimate the uncertainty of performance prediction based on MCMC. Practitioners can evaluate their models on untested tasks with higher uncertainty first, which quickly reduces the prediction errors. We further introduce several improvements to enhance PMF for scenarios with sparse observed performance scores. Our experiments demonstrate the accuracy of PMF in predicting unknown scores, the reliability of uncertainty estimates in ordering evaluations, and the effectiveness of our enhancements for handling sparse data.
title Can We Predict Performance of Large Models across Vision-Language Tasks?
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.10112