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Craft: Cross-modal Aligned Features Improve Robustness of Prompt Tuning
Jingchen Sun, Rohan Sharma, Vishnu Suresh Lokhande, Changyou Chen
Prompt Tuning has emerged as a prominent research paradigm for adapting vision-language models to various downstream tasks. However, recent research indicates that prompt tuning methods often lead to overfitting due to limited training samples. In this paper, we propose a Cross-modal Aligned Feature Tuning (Craft) method to address this issue. Cross-modal alignment is conducted by first selecting anchors from the alternative domain and deriving relative representations of the embeddings for the selected anchors. Optimizing for a feature alignment loss over anchor-aligned text and image modalities creates a more unified text-image common space. Overfitting in prompt tuning also deteriorates model performance on out-of-distribution samples. To further improve the prompt model's robustness, we propose minimizing Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) over the anchor-aligned feature spaces to mitigate domain shift. The experiment on four different prompt tuning structures consistently shows the improvement of our method, with increases of up to 6.1% in the Base-to-Novel generalization task, 5.8% in the group robustness task, and 2.7% in the out-of-distribution tasks. The code will be available at https://github.com/Jingchensun/Craft
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