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Main Authors: Wang, Qitong, Li, Tang, Nguyen, Kien X., Peng, Xi
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Published: 2024
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13333
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author Wang, Qitong
Li, Tang
Nguyen, Kien X.
Peng, Xi
author_facet Wang, Qitong
Li, Tang
Nguyen, Kien X.
Peng, Xi
contents Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have already seen widespread applications. Researchers actively engage in further fine-tuning VLMs in safety-critical domains. In these domains, prediction rationality is crucial: the prediction should be correct and based on valid evidence. Yet, for VLMs, the impact of fine-tuning on prediction rationality is seldomly investigated. To study this problem, we proposed two new metrics called Prediction Trustworthiness and Inference Reliability. We conducted extensive experiments on various settings and observed some interesting phenomena. On the one hand, we found that the well-adopted fine-tuning methods led to more correct predictions based on invalid evidence. This potentially undermines the trustworthiness of correct predictions from fine-tuned VLMs. On the other hand, having identified valid evidence of target objects, fine-tuned VLMs were more likely to make correct predictions. Moreover, the findings are also consistent under distributional shifts and across various experimental settings. We hope our research offer fresh insights to VLM fine-tuning.
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spellingShingle Beyond Accuracy: On the Effects of Fine-tuning Towards Vision-Language Model's Prediction Rationality
Wang, Qitong
Li, Tang
Nguyen, Kien X.
Peng, Xi
Machine Learning
Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have already seen widespread applications. Researchers actively engage in further fine-tuning VLMs in safety-critical domains. In these domains, prediction rationality is crucial: the prediction should be correct and based on valid evidence. Yet, for VLMs, the impact of fine-tuning on prediction rationality is seldomly investigated. To study this problem, we proposed two new metrics called Prediction Trustworthiness and Inference Reliability. We conducted extensive experiments on various settings and observed some interesting phenomena. On the one hand, we found that the well-adopted fine-tuning methods led to more correct predictions based on invalid evidence. This potentially undermines the trustworthiness of correct predictions from fine-tuned VLMs. On the other hand, having identified valid evidence of target objects, fine-tuned VLMs were more likely to make correct predictions. Moreover, the findings are also consistent under distributional shifts and across various experimental settings. We hope our research offer fresh insights to VLM fine-tuning.
title Beyond Accuracy: On the Effects of Fine-tuning Towards Vision-Language Model's Prediction Rationality
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.13333