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Big Transfer (BiT): General Visual Representation Learning

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Kolesnikov, Alexander, Beyer, Lucas, Zhai, Xiaohua, Puigcerver, Joan, Yung, Jessica, Gelly, Sylvain, Houlsby, Neil·2020·Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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  • The absolute numbers for ResNets pre-trained on JFT for 7 epochs are lower than those reported by Kolesnikov et al. (2020) because they pre-trained for 30 epochs.

    “Note that the absolute numbers are lower than those reported by Kolesnikov et al. (2020), since we pre-train only for 7 epochs, not 30 .”

    From An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale (2020) · cites this paper as Kolesnikov et al. (2020)

    Section 3.1 (p. 4) identifies BiT-L as the model pre-trained on JFT-300M. Section 3.3 (p. 5) says BiT-L was pre-trained for 40 epochs, not 30; 30 was a learning-rate decay point. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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  • Noisy Student is currently the state of the art on ImageNet and BiT-L on the other datasets reported here.

    “Currently, Noisy Student is the state of the art on ImageNet and BiT-L on the other datasets reported here.”

    From An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale (2020) · cites this paper as Kolesnikov et al., 2020

    Table 1 (section 3.2, p. 4) lists a specialist result of 88.4% on ImageNet (ILSVRC-2012), above BiT-L’s 87.54%; reference [61] (p. 18) identifies that work as Noisy Student. BiT-L exceeds the listed results on CIFAR-10, CIFAR-100, Flowers, and VTAB, but not Pets, where the listed specialist result is 97.1% versus BiT-L’s 96.62%. Thus the claim about all the other reported datasets overstates the table. (LLM, conf=0.90)

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  • Running fine-tuning at a different resolution than training is common practice.

    “(running fine-tuning at different resolution than training is common practice (Kolesnikov et al., 2020)).”

    From An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale (2020) · cites this paper as Kolesnikov et al., 2020

    Section 2.2 (p. 3) says the authors change resolution during fine-tuning. It calls scaling up resolution at test time common practice, but describes fine-tuning to the test resolution as an alternative; it does not say that fine-tuning at a different resolution is itself common practice. (LLM, conf=0.87)

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  • Using a larger dataset during pre-training may be acting as a regularizer for ViT and BiT's low sensitivity.

    “Using a larger dataset during pre-training may be acting as a regularizer here (Kolesnikov et al. 2020).”

    From Vision Transformers Are Robust Learners (2022) · cites this paper as Kolesnikov et al. 2020

    Section 2.2 (p. 3) says MixUp was not useful during BiT pre-training, likely because data were abundant. That is consistent with the tentative idea that more pre-training data can reduce the need for regularization, but the paper does not say that dataset size acts as a regularizer or explains low sensitivity in ViT and BiT. (LLM, conf=0.78)

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  • The modifications to ResNet (Group Normalization and standardized convolutions) improve transfer.

    “These modifications improve transfer (Kolesnikov et al., 2020), and we denote the modified model 'ResNet (BiT)'.”

    From An Image is Worth 16x16 Words: Transformers for Image Recognition at Scale (2020) · cites this paper as Kolesnikov et al., 2020

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Authors
Kolesnikov, A., Beyer, L., Zhai, X., Puigcerver, J., Yung, J., Gelly, S., & Houlsby, N.
Affiliations
Google (United States) (US)
Corresponding author
Zhai, Xiaohua
Venue
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Published
2020
Pages
491-507
ISSN
  • 0302-9743 (ISSN-L)
  • 1611-3349
OpenAlex
W3015146382
Cited by
1,039
References
36
Citations by year
2026: 60 · 2025: 132 · 2024: 144 · 2023: 226 · 2022: 166 · 2021: 250 · 2020: 61
FWCI
67.14
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Lecture notes in computer science (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Machine Learning and Data Classification
Keywords
visual representation learning, pre-training, fine-tuning, transfer learning, small sample learning, image classification, CIFAR-10

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