数据增强是提高深度学习数据效率的必要条件。对于视觉预训练，仅在以前的作品中为图像或文本增强数据。在本文中，我们介绍了Mixgen：视觉表示的联合数据增强学习，以进一步提高数据效率。它生成了新的图像文本对，并通过插值图像和串联文本保留了语义关系。它很简单，可以插入现有管道中。我们在五个下游视觉语言任务中评估了四个架构，包括夹子，vilt，albef和tcl在内的混合带，以显示其多功能性和有效性。例如，在ALBEF预训练中添加Mixgen会导致下游任务的绝对性能改进：图像文本检索（可可微型调整为+6.2％，Flicker30k零射击），视觉接地（+0.9％）（+0.9％） refcoco+），视觉推理（nlvr $^{2} $的+0.9％），视觉询问答案（vqa2.0上的+0.3％）和视觉效果（snli-ve上的+0.4％）。

在本文中，我们研究了如何在视觉和语言（V+L）表示学习中使用蒙版的信号建模。与其独立开发蒙面语言建模（MLM）和蒙面图像建模（MIM），我们建议建立关节蒙面的视觉和语言建模，其中一种模态的掩盖信号是在另一种方式的帮助下重建的。这是由图像文本配对数据的性质和文本传达几乎相同的信息但以不同格式传达的。在另一种模态下进行的一种模式的掩盖信号重建也可以隐式学习语言令牌和图像贴片之间的跨模式对齐。我们对各种V+L任务的实验表明，该建议的方法不仅可以通过使用大量数据来实现最先进的性能，而且还可以通过有限的培训数据的制度优于其他竞争对手。

Vision-Language Pre-Training (VLP) has shown promising capabilities to align image and text pairs, facilitating a broad variety of cross-modal learning tasks. However, we observe that VLP models often lack the visual grounding/localization capability which is critical for many downstream tasks such as visual reasoning. In this work, we propose a novel Position-guided Text Prompt (PTP) paradigm to enhance the visual grounding ability of cross-modal models trained with VLP. Specifically, in the VLP phase, PTP divides the image into $N\times N$ blocks, and identifies the objects in each block through the widely used object detector in VLP. It then reformulates the visual grounding task into a fill-in-the-blank problem given a PTP by encouraging the model to predict the objects in the given blocks or regress the blocks of a given object, e.g. filling `P" or ``O" in aPTP ``The block P has a O". This mechanism improves the visual grounding capability of VLP models and thus helps them better handle various downstream tasks. By introducing PTP into several state-of-the-art VLP frameworks, we observe consistently significant improvements across representative cross-modal learning model architectures and several benchmarks, e.g. zero-shot Flickr30K Retrieval (+4.8 in average recall@1) for ViLT \cite{vilt} baseline, and COCO Captioning (+5.3 in CIDEr) for SOTA BLIP \cite{blip} baseline. Moreover, PTP achieves comparable results with object-detector based methods, and much faster inference speed since PTP discards its object detector for inference while the later cannot. Our code and pre-trained weight will be released at \url{https://github.com/sail-sg/ptp}.

随着视觉前训练的成功，我们目睹了最先进的方式，以多模式的理解和产生推动。但是，当前的预训练范式不能一次靶向所有模式（例如，文本生成和图像生成），或者需要多重设计良好的任务，从而显着限制可伸缩性。我们证明，可以通过文本和图像序列的前缀语言建模目标学习统一的模态模型。得益于简单但功能强大的预训练范式，我们提出的模型Davinci非常易于训练，可扩展到巨大的数据，并且可以适应跨模态（语言 /视觉 /视觉+语言）的各种下游任务（类型）（理解） / generation）和设置（例如，零射，微调，线性评估）具有单个统一体系结构。达文奇（Davinci）在26个理解 /发电任务的广泛范围内实现了竞争性能，并且在大多数任务上都超过了以前的统一视力语言模型，包括Imagenet分类（+1.6％），VQAV2（+1.4％）（+1.4％），可可标题生成（Bleu@@@@@ 4 +1.1％，苹果酒 +1.5％）和可可图像生成（ +0.9％，FID -1.0％），在可比的模型和数据量表处。此外，我们通过在异质和广泛的分布覆盖范围内报告不同尺度的量表上的性能，为将来的研究提供了明确的基准。我们的结果建立了新的，更强的基线，以便将来在不同的数据量表上进行比较，并阐明了更广泛地比较VLP模型的困难。

图像和语言建模对于视觉前训练（VLP）至关重要，该培训旨在从大规模配对的图像文本数据中学习多模式表示。但是，我们观察到，大多数现有的VLP方法着重于建模图像和文本特征之间的相互作用，同时忽略图像和文本之间的信息差异，从而遭受焦点偏见。为了解决这个问题，我们提出了一个视觉语言掩盖自动编码器框架（VLMAE）。VLMAE采用视觉生成学习，促进该模型获得细粒度和公正的特征。与以前的作品不同，Vlmae注意图像中几乎所有关键的补丁，提供了更全面的理解。广泛的实验表明，VLMAE在各种视觉语言下游任务中取得更好的性能，包括视觉问答，即使有20％的预训练速度，图像文本检索和视觉接地也是如此。

Large-scale vision and language representation learning has shown promising improvements on various vision-language tasks. Most existing methods employ a transformer-based multimodal encoder to jointly model visual tokens (region-based image features) and word tokens. Because the visual tokens and word tokens are unaligned, it is challenging for the multimodal encoder to learn image-text interactions. In this paper, we introduce a contrastive loss to ALign the image and text representations BEfore Fusing (ALBEF) them through cross-modal attention, which enables more grounded vision and language representation learning. Unlike most existing methods, our method does not require bounding box annotations nor high-resolution images. To improve learning from noisy web data, we propose momentum distillation, a self-training method which learns from pseudo-targets produced by a momentum model. We provide a theoretical analysis of ALBEF from a mutual information maximization perspective, showing that different training tasks can be interpreted as different ways to generate views for an image-text pair. ALBEF achieves state-of-the-art performance on multiple downstream visionlanguage tasks. On image-text retrieval, ALBEF outperforms methods that are pre-trained on orders of magnitude larger datasets. On VQA and NLVR 2 , ALBEF achieves absolute improvements of 2.37% and 3.84% compared to the state-ofthe-art, while enjoying faster inference speed. Code and models are available at https://github.com/salesforce/ALBEF.

视觉语言预处理框架中的语言方式是天生离散的，在语言词汇中赋予每个单词是语义含义。相比之下，视觉方式本质上是连续和高维的，这可能禁止视觉和语言方式之间的对齐和融合。因此，我们建议通过联合学习一本赋予每个视觉令牌语义的代码手册来“离散”视觉表示。然后，我们利用这些离散的视觉语义作为自我监督的基础真相来构建我们的蒙版图像建模目标，这是蒙版语言建模的对应物，证明了语言模型成功。为了优化代码簿，我们扩展了VQ-VAE的配方，该配方提供了理论保证。实验验证了我们在常见视觉基准测试中的方法的有效性。

Joint image-text embedding is the bedrock for most Visionand-Language (V+L) tasks, where multimodality inputs are simultaneously processed for joint visual and textual understanding. In this paper, we introduce UNITER, a UNiversal Image-TExt Representation, learned through large-scale pre-training over four image-text datasets (COCO, Visual Genome, Conceptual Captions, and SBU Captions), which can power heterogeneous downstream V+L tasks with joint multimodal embeddings. We design four pre-training tasks: Masked Language Modeling (MLM), Masked Region Modeling (MRM, with three variants), Image-Text Matching (ITM), and Word-Region Alignment (WRA). Different from previous work that applies joint random masking to both modalities, we use conditional masking on pre-training tasks (i.e., masked language/region modeling is conditioned on full observation of image/text). In addition to ITM for global image-text alignment, we also propose WRA via the use of Optimal Transport (OT) to explicitly encourage finegrained alignment between words and image regions during pre-training. Comprehensive analysis shows that both conditional masking and OTbased WRA contribute to better pre-training. We also conduct a thorough ablation study to find an optimal combination of pre-training tasks. Extensive experiments show that UNITER achieves new state of the art across six V+L tasks (over nine datasets), including Visual Question

远见和语言预测已成为解决多模式下游任务的普遍方法。当前的趋势是朝着更大的模型和预处理数据集迈进。从长远来看，这一计算头急促似乎是不合理的，而是朝着可持续的解决方案迈进，事实上，排除了资源有限的学术实验室。在这项工作中，我们提出了一个称为VICHA的新框架，该框架有效利用输入数据以通过以下方式提高学习，以： ，（c）利用图像级注释，称为视觉概念，使用现有基础模型（例如剪辑）获得，以提高图像编码器的性能。尽管对数据的预估计少了四倍，但我们的VICHA策略在下游任务（例如图像文本检索，VQA，视觉推理，视觉上和视觉接地）上的其他方法优于其他方法。该代码将在此处公开提供：https：//github.com/mshukor/vicha

最先进的愿景和愿景和语言模型依靠大规模的Visio-linguisting预借鉴，以获得各种下游任务的良好性能。通常，这种模型通常是跨模态（对比）或多模态（具有早期融合）但不是两者;它们通常只针对特定的方式或任务。有希望的方向将是使用单一整体普遍模型，作为“基础”，目标是一次性的所有方式 - 真正的视觉和语言基础模型应该擅长视力任务，语言任务和交叉和多数模态视觉和语言任务。我们将Flava介绍在这样的模型中，并在跨越这些目标模式的广泛的35个任务上展示令人印象深刻的性能。

本文介绍了Omnivl，这是一种新的基础模型，旨在使用一种通用体系结构来支持图像语言和视频语言任务。它为图像和视频输入采用了统一的基于变压器的视觉编码器，因此可以执行联合图像语言和视频语言预处理。我们首次证明了这样的范式受益于图像和视频任务，而不是传统的单向传输（例如，使用图像语言来帮助视频语言）。为此，我们提出了对图像语言和视频语言的脱钩关节预处理，以有效地将视觉模型分解为空间和时间维度，并在图像和视频任务上获得性能提升。此外，我们引入了一种新颖的统一视觉对比度（UNIVLC）损失，以利用图像文本，视频文本，图像标签（例如，图像分类），视频标签（例如，视频动作识别）在一起受到监督和吵闹的监督预处理数据都尽可能多地利用。无需额外的任务适配器，Omnivl可以同时支持仅视觉任务（例如，图像分类，视频操作识别），跨模式对齐任务（例如，图像/视频 - 文本检索）和多模式理解和生成任务（例如，图像/视频问答，字幕）。我们在各种下游任务上评估Omnivl，并以相似的模型大小和数据量表获得最新的或竞争结果。

Large-scale pre-training methods of learning cross-modal representations on image-text pairs are becoming popular for vision-language tasks. While existing methods simply concatenate image region features and text features as input to the model to be pre-trained and use selfattention to learn image-text semantic alignments in a brute force manner, in this paper, we propose a new learning method Oscar 1 , which uses object tags detected in images as anchor points to significantly ease the learning of alignments. Our method is motivated by the observation that the salient objects in an image can be accurately detected, and are often mentioned in the paired text. We pre-train an Oscar model on the public corpus of 6.5 million text-image pairs, and fine-tune it on downstream tasks, creating new state-of-the-arts on six well-established vision-language understanding and generation tasks. 2

Learning fine-grained interplay between vision and language allows to a more accurate understanding for VisionLanguage tasks. However, it remains challenging to extract key image regions according to the texts for semantic alignments. Most existing works are either limited by textagnostic and redundant regions obtained with the frozen detectors, or failing to scale further due to its heavy reliance on scarce grounding (gold) data to pre-train detectors. To solve these problems, we propose Self-Locator Aided Network (SLAN) for cross-modal understanding tasks without any extra gold data. SLAN consists of a region filter and a region adaptor to localize regions of interest conditioned on different texts. By aggregating cross-modal information, the region filter selects key regions and the region adaptor updates their coordinates with text guidance. With detailed region-word alignments, SLAN can be easily generalized to many downstream tasks. It achieves fairly competitive results on five cross-modal understanding tasks (e.g., 85.7% and 69.2% on COCO image-to-text and text-to-image retrieval, surpassing previous SOTA methods). SLAN also demonstrates strong zero-shot and fine-tuned transferability to two localization tasks.

We study joint learning of Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Transformer for vision-language pre-training (VLPT) which aims to learn cross-modal alignments from millions of image-text pairs. State-of-the-art approaches extract salient image regions and align regions with words step-by-step. As region-based visual features usually represent parts of an image, it is challenging for existing visionlanguage models to fully understand the semantics from paired natural languages. In this paper, we propose SOHO to "See Out of tHe bOx" that takes a whole image as input, and learns vision-language representation in an endto-end manner. SOHO does not require bounding box annotations which enables inference 10 times faster than regionbased approaches. In particular, SOHO learns to extract comprehensive yet compact image features through a visual dictionary (VD) that facilitates cross-modal understanding. VD is designed to represent consistent visual abstractions of similar semantics. It is updated on-the-fly and utilized in our proposed pre-training task Masked Visual Modeling (MVM). We conduct experiments on four well-established vision-language tasks by following standard VLPT settings. In particular, SOHO achieves absolute gains of 2.0% R@1 score on MSCOCO text retrieval 5k test split, 1.5% accuracy on NLVR 2 test-P split, 6.7% accuracy on SNLI-VE test split, respectively.

We present Answer-Me, a task-aware multi-task framework which unifies a variety of question answering tasks, such as, visual question answering, visual entailment, visual reasoning. In contrast to previous works using contrastive or generative captioning training, we propose a novel and simple recipe to pre-train a vision-language joint model, which is multi-task as well. The pre-training uses only noisy image captioning data, and is formulated to use the entire architecture end-to-end with both a strong language encoder and decoder. Our results show state-of-the-art performance, zero-shot generalization, robustness to forgetting, and competitive single-task results across a variety of question answering tasks. Our multi-task mixture training learns from tasks of various question intents and thus generalizes better, including on zero-shot vision-language tasks. We conduct experiments in the challenging multi-task and open-vocabulary settings and across a variety of datasets and tasks, such as VQA2.0, SNLI-VE, NLVR2, GQA. We observe that the proposed approach is able to generalize to unseen tasks and that more diverse mixtures lead to higher accuracy in both known and novel tasks.

在本文中，我们提出了一种单一统一的变压器（UFO），其能够处理视觉语言的单峰输入（例如，图像或语言）或多模式输入（例如，图像和问题的串联）（ VL）表示学习。现有方法通常为每个模态和/或特定融合网络设计个人网络，用于多模式任务。为了简化网络架构，我们使用单个变压器网络并在VL预培训期间强制执行多任务学习，其包括图像文本对比丢失，图像文本匹配丢失和基于双向的屏蔽语言建模损耗SEQ2Seq注意面具。相同的变压器网络用作不同预训练任务中的图像编码器，文本编码器或融合网络。经验上，我们观察不同任务之间的冲突，并在视觉问题应答，Coco图像标题（交叉熵优化）和Nocaps（在香料中）实现新的艺术状态。在其他下游任务中，例如，图像文本检索，我们也实现了竞争性能。

The availability of large-scale image captioning and visual question answering datasets has contributed significantly to recent successes in vision-and-language pretraining. However, these datasets are often collected with overrestrictive requirements inherited from their original target tasks (e.g., image caption generation), which limit the resulting dataset scale and diversity. We take a step further in pushing the limits of vision-and-language pretraining data by relaxing the data collection pipeline used in Conceptual Captions 3M (CC3M) [70] and introduce the Conceptual 12M (CC12M), a dataset with 12 million image-text pairs specifically meant to be used for visionand-language pre-training. We perform an analysis of this dataset and benchmark its effectiveness against CC3M on multiple downstream tasks with an emphasis on long-tail visual recognition. Our results clearly illustrate the benefit of scaling up pre-training data for vision-and-language tasks, as indicated by the new state-of-the-art results on both the nocaps and Conceptual Captions benchmarks. 1

We present VILLA, the first known effort on large-scale adversarial training for vision-and-language (V+L) representation learning. VILLA consists of two training stages: (i) task-agnostic adversarial pre-training; followed by (ii) task-specific adversarial finetuning. Instead of adding adversarial perturbations on image pixels and textual tokens, we propose to perform adversarial training in the embedding space of each modality. To enable large-scale training, we adopt the "free" adversarial training strategy, and combine it with KL-divergence-based regularization to promote higher invariance in the embedding space. We apply VILLA to current best-performing V+L models, and achieve new state of the art on a wide range of tasks, including Visual Question Answering, Visual Commonsense Reasoning, Image-Text Retrieval, Referring Expression Comprehension, Visual Entailment, and NLVR 2 . 1

开创性双编码器预训练工作（例如，剪辑并对齐）揭示了与对比学习对齐多模态表示的潜力。然而，这些作品需要大量的数据和计算资源（例如，十亿级Web数据和数百个GPU），这阻止了从再生产和进一步探索的资源有限的研究人员。为此，我们探讨了一堆简单但有效的启发式，并提供了全面的培训指导，使我们能够与有限的资源进行双编码器多模态表示对齐。我们为竞争结果提供可重复的强大基线，即Zerovl，只有1400万公共访问的学术数据集和8 v100 GPU。此外，我们收集100米Web数据进行预培训，而不是最先进的方法实现可比或优越的结果，进一步证明了我们对大规模数据的方法的有效性。我们希望这项工作将为多模态预培训的未来研究提供有用的数据点和经验。我们的代码和预先训练的型号将被释放，以促进研究界。

以前的视觉语言预训练模型主要构建具有令牌和对象（像素）的多模式输入，然后在它们之间执行交叉模式相互作用。我们认为，只有令牌和对象的输入限制了诸如短语到区域接地之类的高级语义对齐。同时，多层次对齐本质上是一致的，并且能够协同促进表示形式学习。因此，在本文中，我们建议学习视觉预训练（MVPTR）的多级语义一致性。在MVPTR中，我们遵循两种方式的嵌套结构，以引入概念为高级语义。为了简化从多模式多级输入的学习，我们的框架分为两个阶段，第一阶段着重于模式内多级表示学习，第二阶段通过粗粒和细粒度跨模态强化了跨模式的交互语义对齐任务。除了常用的图像文本匹配和掩盖语言模型任务外，我们还引入了第一阶段蒙版概念恢复任务以增强概念表示学习，第二阶段的另外两个任务在第二阶段中，以明确鼓励跨跨层次的多层次对准方式。我们的代码可在https://github.com/junction4nako/mvp_pytorch上找到。