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ALIP: Adaptive Language-Image Pre-training with Synthetic Caption

16 Aug 2023ICCV 2023 1arXiv:2308.08428archive 2025-07-28

Kaicheng Yang, Jiankang Deng, Xiang An, Jiawei Li, Ziyong Feng, Jia Guo, Jing Yang, Tongliang Liu

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has significantly boosted the performance of various vision-language tasks by scaling up the dataset with image-text pairs collected from the web. However, the presence of intrinsic noise and unmatched image-text pairs in web data can potentially affect the performance of representation learning. To address this issue, we first utilize the OFA model to generate synthetic captions that focus on the image content. The generated captions contain complementary information that is beneficial for pre-training. Then, we propose an Adaptive Language-Image Pre-training (ALIP), a bi-path model that integrates supervision from both raw text and synthetic caption. As the core components of ALIP, the Language Consistency Gate (LCG) and Description Consistency Gate (DCG) dynamically adjust the weights of samples and image-text/caption pairs during the training process. Meanwhile, the adaptive contrastive loss can effectively reduce the impact of noise data and enhances the efficiency of pre-training data. We validate ALIP with experiments on different scales of models and pre-training datasets. Experiments results show that ALIP achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple downstream tasks including zero-shot image-text retrieval and linear probe. To facilitate future research, the code and pre-trained models are released at https://github.com/deepglint/ALIP.

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TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Action Classification Kinetics-700-2020 ALIP-ViT B/32 LAION30M Top 1 Accuracy 50.6 #1 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Action Classification Kinetics-700-2020 ALIP-ViT B/16 LAION10M Top 1 Accuracy 50.1 #2 of 3 Archive leaderboard report
Action Classification Kinetics-700-2020 ALIP-ViT B/32 LAION10M Top 1 Accuracy 46.4 #3 of 3 Archive leaderboard report

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