Visual Variational Autoencoder Prompt Tuning

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Auteurs principaux: Xiao, Xi, Zhang, Yunbei, Li, Yanshuh, Li, Xingjian, Wang, Tianyang, Hamm, Jihun, Wang, Xiao, Xu, Min
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author Xiao, Xi
Zhang, Yunbei
Li, Yanshuh
Li, Xingjian
Wang, Tianyang
Hamm, Jihun
Wang, Xiao
Xu, Min
author_facet Xiao, Xi
Zhang, Yunbei
Li, Yanshuh
Li, Xingjian
Wang, Tianyang
Hamm, Jihun
Wang, Xiao
Xu, Min
contents Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has emerged as a crucial approach for adapting large vision transformers to downstream tasks without the prohibitive computational costs of full fine-tuning. While existing visual prompt tuning (VPT) methods have made significant strides, they predominantly rely on static, domain-specific prompts that fail to capture the rich visual diversity within individual instances. This paper introduces V$^2$APT (Visual Variational Autoencoder Prompt Tuning), a novel framework that generates dynamic, input-dependent prompts using a variational autoencoder architecture. By learning a latent representation of image-specific features and decoding them into customized prompts, V$^2$APT adapts to the unique visual characteristics of each input. Extensive experiments on FGVC, HTA, and VTAB-1k benchmarks demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms state-of-the-art PEFT methods. Notably, V$^2$APT achieves +3.2\% improvement over VPT-Deep on HTA, with an average performance gain of +2.0\% across all three datasets.
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spellingShingle Visual Variational Autoencoder Prompt Tuning
Xiao, Xi
Zhang, Yunbei
Li, Yanshuh
Li, Xingjian
Wang, Tianyang
Hamm, Jihun
Wang, Xiao
Xu, Min
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) has emerged as a crucial approach for adapting large vision transformers to downstream tasks without the prohibitive computational costs of full fine-tuning. While existing visual prompt tuning (VPT) methods have made significant strides, they predominantly rely on static, domain-specific prompts that fail to capture the rich visual diversity within individual instances. This paper introduces V$^2$APT (Visual Variational Autoencoder Prompt Tuning), a novel framework that generates dynamic, input-dependent prompts using a variational autoencoder architecture. By learning a latent representation of image-specific features and decoding them into customized prompts, V$^2$APT adapts to the unique visual characteristics of each input. Extensive experiments on FGVC, HTA, and VTAB-1k benchmarks demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms state-of-the-art PEFT methods. Notably, V$^2$APT achieves +3.2\% improvement over VPT-Deep on HTA, with an average performance gain of +2.0\% across all three datasets.
title Visual Variational Autoencoder Prompt Tuning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.17650