Text and Image Are Mutually Beneficial: Enhancing Training-Free Few-Shot Classification with CLIP

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Auteurs principaux: Li, Yayuan, Guo, Jintao, Qi, Lei, Li, Wenbin, Shi, Yinghuan
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author Li, Yayuan
Guo, Jintao
Qi, Lei
Li, Wenbin
Shi, Yinghuan
author_facet Li, Yayuan
Guo, Jintao
Qi, Lei
Li, Wenbin
Shi, Yinghuan
contents Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has been widely used in vision tasks. Notably, CLIP has demonstrated promising performance in few-shot learning (FSL). However, existing CLIP-based methods in training-free FSL (i.e., without the requirement of additional training) mainly learn different modalities independently, leading to two essential issues: 1) severe anomalous match in image modality; 2) varying quality of generated text prompts. To address these issues, we build a mutual guidance mechanism, that introduces an Image-Guided-Text (IGT) component to rectify varying quality of text prompts through image representations, and a Text-Guided-Image (TGI) component to mitigate the anomalous match of image modality through text representations. By integrating IGT and TGI, we adopt a perspective of Text-Image Mutual guidance Optimization, proposing TIMO. Extensive experiments show that TIMO significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art (SOTA) training-free method. Additionally, by exploring the extent of mutual guidance, we propose an enhanced variant, TIMO-S, which even surpasses the best training-required methods by 0.33% with approximately 100 times less time cost. Our code is available at https://github.com/lyymuwu/TIMO.
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spellingShingle Text and Image Are Mutually Beneficial: Enhancing Training-Free Few-Shot Classification with CLIP
Li, Yayuan
Guo, Jintao
Qi, Lei
Li, Wenbin
Shi, Yinghuan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Contrastive Language-Image Pretraining (CLIP) has been widely used in vision tasks. Notably, CLIP has demonstrated promising performance in few-shot learning (FSL). However, existing CLIP-based methods in training-free FSL (i.e., without the requirement of additional training) mainly learn different modalities independently, leading to two essential issues: 1) severe anomalous match in image modality; 2) varying quality of generated text prompts. To address these issues, we build a mutual guidance mechanism, that introduces an Image-Guided-Text (IGT) component to rectify varying quality of text prompts through image representations, and a Text-Guided-Image (TGI) component to mitigate the anomalous match of image modality through text representations. By integrating IGT and TGI, we adopt a perspective of Text-Image Mutual guidance Optimization, proposing TIMO. Extensive experiments show that TIMO significantly outperforms the state-of-the-art (SOTA) training-free method. Additionally, by exploring the extent of mutual guidance, we propose an enhanced variant, TIMO-S, which even surpasses the best training-required methods by 0.33% with approximately 100 times less time cost. Our code is available at https://github.com/lyymuwu/TIMO.
title Text and Image Are Mutually Beneficial: Enhancing Training-Free Few-Shot Classification with CLIP
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.11375