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Image as a Foreign Language: BEIT Pretraining for Vision and Vision-Language Tasks

Wang, Wenhui, Bao, Hangbo, Dong, Li, Bjorck, Johan, Peng, Zhiliang, Liu, Qiang, Aggarwal, Kriti, Mohammed, Owais Khan +3 more·2023·2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)

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A big convergence of language, vision, and multimodal pretraining is emerging. In this work, we introduce a general-purpose multimodal foundation model BEIT-3, which achieves excellent transfer performance on both vision and vision-language tasks. Specifically, we advance the big convergence from three aspects: backbone architecture, pretraining task, and model scaling up. We use Multiway Transformers for general-purpose modeling, where the modular architecture enables both deep fusion and modality-specific encoding. Based on the shared backbone, we perform masked “language” modeling on images (Imglish), texts (English), and image-text pairs (“parallel sentences”) in a unified manner. Experimental results show that BEIT-3 obtains remarkable performance on object detection (COCO), semantic segmentation (ADE20K), image classification (ImageNet), visual reasoning (NLVR2), visual question answering (VQAv2), image captioning (COCO), and cross-modal retrieval (Flickr30K, COCO).

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  • Fine-tuned multimodal models like BEiT and PaLI still dominate tasks such as VQA and image captioning.

    “And fine-tuned multimodal models, like BEiT [120] and PaLI [23], still dominate many tasks such as visual question answering (VQA) and image captioning.”

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Authors
Wang, W., Bao, H., Dong, L., Bjorck, J., Peng, Z., Liu, Q., Aggarwal, K., Mohammed, O. K., Singhal, S., Som, S., & Wei, F.
Affiliations
  • Microsoft (United States) (US)
  • Microsoft Corporation
Venue
2023 IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
Publisher
IEEE
Published
2023-06
Pages
19175-19186
ISSN
1063-6919 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4386071687
Cited by
561
References
65
Citations by year
2026: 113 · 2025: 177 · 2024: 182 · 2023: 87 · 2022: 2
FWCI
59.70
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Keywords
vision-language pre-training, multimodal foundation models, masked image modeling, object detection, semantic segmentation, visual question answering, visual reasoning, image captioning, cross-modal retrieval, model scaling

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