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Hong-You Chen, Zhengfeng Lai, Haotian Zhang, Xinze Wang, Marcin Eichner, Keen You, Meng Cao, Bowen Zhang and 2 more
The CLOC (Contrastive Localized Language-Image Pre-training) framework, developed by Apple AI/ML, enhances CLIP's vision encoder with fine-grained localization capabilities by introducing "promptable embeddings" and leveraging a scalable pseudo-labeling pipeline, resulting in improved performance for multimodal large language models on referring, grounding, and general visual question answering tasks.
Key insights
- The concept of "promptable embeddings" and the lightweight Prompter module effectively enable vision encoders to learn robust region-level understanding from noisy pseudo-labels.
- A scalable and high-quality pseudo-labeling pipeline (VESL) is crucial for generating the large-scale region-text data necessary to bridge the data gap in fine-grained vision-language pre-training.
- Enhancing the vision encoder with localization capability directly improves the performance of downstream multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on complex spatial reasoning tasks like referring and grounding.
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