DueT: Image-Text Contrastive Transfer Learning with Dual-adapter Tuning

Taku Hasegawa, Kyosuke Nishida, Koki Maeda, Kuniko Saito

Submission Type: Regular Long Paper

Submission Track: Language Grounding to Vision, Robotics and Beyond

Submission Track 2: Speech and Multimodality

Keywords: Vision and Language

TL;DR: This paper presents DueT, a transfer learning method for vision and language models. DueT prevents catastrophic forgetting and achieves efficient learning with a reduced number of trainable parameters.

Abstract:

This paper presents DueT, a novel transfer learning method for vision and language models built by contrastive learning.
In DueT, adapters are inserted into the image and text encoders, which have been initialized using models pre-trained on uni-modal corpora and then frozen.
By training only these adapters, DueT enables efficient learning with a reduced number of trainable parameters.
Moreover, unlike traditional adapters, those in DueT are equipped with a gating mechanism, enabling effective transfer and connection of knowledge acquired from pre-trained uni-modal encoders while preventing catastrophic forgetting.
We report that DueT outperformed simple fine-tuning, the conventional method fixing only the image encoder and training only the text encoder, and the LoRA-based adapter method in accuracy and parameter efficiency for 0-shot image and text retrieval in both English and Japanese domains.

Submission Number: 1476