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MELTR: Meta Loss Transformer for Learning to Fine-tune Video Foundation Models

23 Mar 2023CVPR 2023 1arXiv:2303.13009archive 2025-07-28

Dohwan Ko, Joonmyung Choi, Hyeong Kyu Choi, Kyoung-Woon On, Byungseok Roh, Hyunwoo J. Kim

Foundation models have shown outstanding performance and generalization capabilities across domains. Since most studies on foundation models mainly focus on the pretraining phase, a naive strategy to minimize a single task-specific loss is adopted for fine-tuning. However, such fine-tuning methods do not fully leverage other losses that are potentially beneficial for the target task. Therefore, we propose MEta Loss TRansformer (MELTR), a plug-in module that automatically and non-linearly combines various loss functions to aid learning the target task via auxiliary learning. We formulate the auxiliary learning as a bi-level optimization problem and present an efficient optimization algorithm based on Approximate Implicit Differentiation (AID). For evaluation, we apply our framework to various video foundation models (UniVL, Violet and All-in-one), and show significant performance gain on all four downstream tasks: text-to-video retrieval, video question answering, video captioning, and multi-modal sentiment analysis. Our qualitative analyses demonstrate that MELTR adequately `transforms' individual loss functions and `melts' them into an effective unified loss. Code is available at https://github.com/mlvlab/MELTR.

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Auxiliary LearningMultimodal Sentiment AnalysisQuestion AnsweringRetrievalSentiment AnalysisTGIF-ActionTGIF-FrameTGIF-TransitionText to Video RetrievalVideo CaptioningVideo Question AnsweringVideo RetrievalVisual Question Answering (VQA)

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis CMU-MOSI UniVL + MELTR Acc-2 85.3 #4 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis CMU-MOSI UniVL + MELTR Corr 0.789 #4 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis CMU-MOSI UniVL + MELTR F1 85.4 #4 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Multimodal Sentiment Analysis CMU-MOSI UniVL + MELTR MAE 0.759 #4 of 12 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning MSR-VTT UniVL + MELTR BLEU-4 44.17 #24 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning MSR-VTT UniVL + MELTR CIDEr 52.77 #24 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning MSR-VTT UniVL + MELTR METEOR 29.26 #24 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning MSR-VTT UniVL + MELTR ROUGE-L 62.35 #24 of 24 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning YouCook2 UniVL + MELTR BLEU-3 24.12 #2 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning YouCook2 UniVL + MELTR BLEU-4 17.92 #2 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning YouCook2 UniVL + MELTR CIDEr 1.90 #2 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning YouCook2 UniVL + MELTR METEOR 22.56 #2 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Video Captioning YouCook2 UniVL + MELTR ROUGE-L 47.04 #2 of 14 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT All-in-one + MELTR text-to-video R@1 38.6 #15 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT All-in-one + MELTR text-to-video R@10 84.7 #15 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT All-in-one + MELTR text-to-video R@5 74.4 #15 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT VIOLET + MELTR text-to-video Median Rank 3 #20 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT VIOLET + MELTR text-to-video R@1 33.6 #20 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT VIOLET + MELTR text-to-video R@10 77.8 #20 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT VIOLET + MELTR text-to-video R@5 63.7 #20 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT UniVL + MELTR text-to-video Median Rank 4 #28 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT UniVL + MELTR text-to-video R@1 28.5 #28 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT UniVL + MELTR text-to-video R@10 67.6 #28 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT UniVL + MELTR text-to-video R@5 55.5 #28 of 40 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA All-in-one + MELTR text-to-video R@1 41.3 #38 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA All-in-one + MELTR text-to-video R@10 82.5 #38 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA All-in-one + MELTR text-to-video R@5 73.5 #38 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA VIOLET + MELTR text-to-video Median Rank 3 #46 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA VIOLET + MELTR text-to-video R@1 35.5 #46 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA VIOLET + MELTR text-to-video R@10 78.4 #46 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA VIOLET + MELTR text-to-video R@5 67.2 #46 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA UniVL + MELTR text-to-video Median Rank 4 #48 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA UniVL + MELTR text-to-video R@1 31.1 #48 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA UniVL + MELTR text-to-video R@10 68.3 #48 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval MSR-VTT-1kA UniVL + MELTR text-to-video R@5 55.7 #48 of 63 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval YouCook2 UniVL + MELTR text-to-video Median Rank 3 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval YouCook2 UniVL + MELTR text-to-video R@1 33.7 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval YouCook2 UniVL + MELTR text-to-video R@10 74.8 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Video Retrieval YouCook2 UniVL + MELTR text-to-video R@5 63.1 #2 of 16 Archive leaderboard report
Visual Question Answering (VQA) MSVD-QA VIOLET + MELTR Accuracy 0.517 #20 of 36 Archive leaderboard report

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