VL-ADAPTER: Parameter-Efficient Transfer Learning for Vision-and-Language Tasks

作者：Yi-Lin Sung, Jaemin Cho, Mohit Bansal · 发表于：2022 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) · 年份：2022 · DOI：10.1109/cvpr52688.2022.00516 · 被引用次数：22 · 研究领域：Multimodal Machine Learning Applications、Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning、Topic Modeling

Recently, fine-tuning language models pre-trained on large text corpora have provided huge improvements on vision-and-language (V&L) tasks as well as on pure language tasks. However, fine-tuning the entire parameter set of pre-trained models becomes impractical since the model size is growing rapidly. Hence, in this paper, we introduce adapter-based parameter-efficient transfer learning techniques to V&L models such as VL-BART and VL-T5. We evaluate our methods in a unified multi-task setup on both image-text and video-text benchmarks. For the image-text tasks, we use four diverse V&L datasets: VQAv2, GQA, NLVR2, and MSCOCO image captioning. For video-text tasks, we use TVQA, How2QA, TVC, and YC2C. With careful training and thorough experiments, we benchmark three popular adapter-based methods (Adapter, Hyperformer, Compacter) against the standard full fine-tuning and the recently proposed prompt-tuning approach. We also enhance the efficiency and performance of adapters by sharing their weights to attain knowledge across tasks. Our results demonstrate that training the adapter with the weight-sharing technique (4.18% of total parameters for image-text tasks and 3.39% for video-text tasks) can match the performance of fine-tuning the entire model. Lastly, we present a comprehensive analysis including the combination of adapter and task-specific prompts and the impact of V&L pre-training on adapters.11The code for our CVPR 2022 paper is available at: https://github.com/ylsung/...