We present Fast Language-Image Pre-training (FLIP), a simple and more efficient method for training CLIP. Our method randomly masks out and removes a large portion of image patches during training. Masking allows us to learn from more image-text pairs given the same wall-clock time and contrast more samples per iteration with similar memory footprint. It leads to a favorable trade-off between accuracy and training time. In our experiments on 400 million image-text pairs, FLIP improves both accuracy and speed over the no-masking baseline. On a large diversity of downstream tasks, FLIP dominantly outperforms the CLIP counterparts trained on the same data. Facilitated by the speedup, we explore the scaling behavior of increasing the model size, data size, or training length, and report encouraging results and comparisons. We hope that our work will foster future research on scaling vision-language learning.

本文显示屏蔽的自动化器（MAE）是可扩展的自我监督学习者，用于计算机愿景。我们的MAE方法很简单：我们掩盖输入图像的随机补丁并重建缺失像素。它基于两个核心设计。首先，我们开发一个不对称的编码器解码器架构，其中编码器仅在掩码的可见子集（没有掩码令牌）上，以及重量解码器，该重量解码器从潜像和掩码令牌重建原始图像。其次，我们发现掩蔽了高比例的输入图像，例如，75％，产生非凡和有意义的自我监督任务。耦合这两种设计使我们能够有效且有效地培训大型模型：我们加速培训（3倍或更多）并提高准确性。我们可扩展的方法允许学习概括的高容量模型：例如，Vanilla Vit-Maxim模型在使用Imagenet-1K数据的方法中实现最佳准确性（87.8％）。下游任务中的转移性能优于监督预培训并显示有前途的缩放行为。

Image token removal is an efficient augmentation strategy for reducing the cost of computing image features. However, this efficient augmentation strategy has been found to adversely affect the accuracy of CLIP-based training. We hypothesize that removing a large portion of image tokens may improperly discard the semantic content associated with a given text description, thus constituting an incorrect pairing target in CLIP training. To address this issue, we propose an attentive token removal approach for CLIP training, which retains tokens with a high semantic correlation to the text description. The correlation scores are computed in an online fashion using the EMA version of the visual encoder. Our experiments show that the proposed attentive masking approach performs better than the previous method of random token removal for CLIP training. The approach also makes it efficient to apply multiple augmentation views to the image, as well as introducing instance contrastive learning tasks between these views into the CLIP framework. Compared to other CLIP improvements that combine different pre-training targets such as SLIP and MaskCLIP, our method is not only more effective, but also much more efficient. Specifically, using ViT-B and YFCC-15M dataset, our approach achieves $43.9\%$ top-1 accuracy on ImageNet-1K zero-shot classification, as well as $62.7/42.1$ and $38.0/23.2$ I2T/T2I retrieval accuracy on Flickr30K and MS COCO, which are $+1.1\%$, $+5.5/+0.9$, and $+4.4/+1.3$ higher than the SLIP method, while being $2.30\times$ faster. An efficient version of our approach running $1.16\times$ faster than the plain CLIP model achieves significant gains of $+5.3\%$, $+11.3/+8.0$, and $+9.5/+4.9$ on these benchmarks.

本文提出了一种对比调整，这是一种简单的方法，采用对比训练来对准图像和文本模型，同时仍然利用他们的预训练。在我们的实证研究中，我们发现，锁定的预训练图像模型与解锁文本模型最佳。我们调用这种对比调整“锁定图像文本调整”（LIT TOONING）的实例，该实例仅教导文本模型，从预先训练的图像模型中读出了良好的表示新任务。亮度调谐模型将零拍摄传输到新视觉任务的能力提高，例如图像分类或检索。建议的亮度调整是广泛适用的;它可以使用三种不同的图像文本数据集可靠地使用多种预训练方法（监督和无监督）和多种架构（Reset，Vision变换器和MLP-MILLER）。利用基于变压器的预训练VIT-G / 14型号，LIT调谐模型在想象网测试集中实现了84.5％的零射频传输精度，并且在充满挑战的分发ObjectNet测试集中实现了81.1％。

在过去的几年中，基于自我注意力的变压器模型一直在主导许多计算机视觉任务。它们的出色模型质量在很大程度上取决于标记过多的图像数据集。为了减少对大型标记数据集的依赖，基于重建的掩盖自动编码器正在获得流行，这些自动编码器从未标记的图像中学习了高质量的可转移表示形式。出于同样的目的，最近弱监督的图像预处理方法探索了图像随附的文本字幕的语言监督。在这项工作中，我们提出了对语言辅助代表的预读图像，称为米兰。我们的预处理目标不是预测原始像素或低级别的特征，而是用使用字幕监督获得的大量语义信号来重建图像特征。此外，为了适应我们的重建目标，我们提出了更有效的促使解码器体系结构和语义意识到的掩码采样机制，从而进一步推进了预告片模型的传输性能。实验结果表明，米兰的精度比以前的工作更高。当掩盖的自动编码器在ImagEnet-1K数据集上进行了预估计并以224x224的输入分辨率进行了填充时，米兰在VITB/16上的前1位准确性达到了85.4％，使以前的先前最先前的艺术品达到1％。在下游的语义分割任务中，米兰在ADE20K数据集上使用VIT-B/16骨架达到52.7 MIOU，表现优于先前的蒙版预读结果4分。

探索大规模预处理的基础模型对计算机视觉具有重大兴趣，因为这些模型可以快速转移到许多下游任务中。本文介绍了对比字幕（COCA），这是一种极简主义的设计，旨在为图像文本编码器编码器基础模型预算与对比度损失和字幕损失，从而从剪辑和诸如simvlm之类的生成方法之类的对比方法中包含模型能力。与所有解码器层都参与编码器输出的标准编码器 - 模块变压器相反，可口可乐省略了解码器层的上半部分的交叉注意，以编码单峰文本表示，并串联到剩余的解码器层，这些解码器与图像编码器相交的解码器层多模式图像文本表示。除了对多模态解码器输出的字幕损失外，我们还应用了单峰图像和文本嵌入之间的对比损失，该输出可以预测文本令牌自动加压。通过共享相同的计算图，可以用最小的开销有效地计算两个培训目标。可口可乐是端到端和从头开始的网络尺度alt-text数据和带注释的图像，通过将所有标签视为文本，无缝地统一自然语言监督以进行表示。从经验上讲，可口可乐通过零拍传输或在广泛的下游任务上进行零摄像转移或最少的特定任务适应，跨越视觉识别（Imagenet，Kinetics-400/600/700，瞬间， ），交叉模式检索（MSCOCO，FLICKR30K，MSR-VTT），多模式理解（VQA，SNLI-VE，NLVR2）和图像字幕（MSCOCO，NOCAPS）。值得注意的是，在Imagenet分类方面，COCA获得了86.3％的TOP-1准确性，带有冷冻编码器和学习的分类头90.6％，以及带有填充编码器的Imagenet上的新最先进的91.0％Top-1 Top-1精度。

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。

Scaling up neural networks has led to remarkable performance across a wide range of tasks. Moreover, performance often follows reliable scaling laws as a function of training set size, model size, and compute, which offers valuable guidance as large-scale experiments are becoming increasingly expensive. However, previous work on scaling laws has primarily used private data \& models or focused on uni-modal language or vision learning. To address these limitations, we investigate scaling laws for contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) with the public LAION dataset and the open-source OpenCLIP repository. Our large-scale experiments involve models trained on up to two billion image-text pairs and identify power law scaling for multiple downstream tasks including zero-shot classification, retrieval, linear probing, and end-to-end fine-tuning. We find that the training distribution plays a key role in scaling laws as the OpenAI and OpenCLIP models exhibit different scaling behavior despite identical model architectures and similar training recipes. We open-source our evaluation workflow and all models, including the largest public CLIP models, to ensure reproducibility and make scaling laws research more accessible. Source code and instructions to reproduce this study will be available at https://github.com/LAION-AI/scaling-laws-openclip

Multimodal models are becoming increasingly effective, in part due to unified components, such as the Transformer architecture. However, multimodal models still often consist of many task- and modality-specific pieces and training procedures. For example, CLIP (Radford et al., 2021) trains independent text and image towers via a contrastive loss. We explore an additional unification: the use of a pure pixel-based model to perform image, text, and multimodal tasks. Our model is trained with contrastive loss alone, so we call it CLIP-Pixels Only (CLIPPO). CLIPPO uses a single encoder that processes both regular images and text rendered as images. CLIPPO performs image-based tasks such as retrieval and zero-shot image classification almost as well as CLIP, with half the number of parameters and no text-specific tower or embedding. When trained jointly via image-text contrastive learning and next-sentence contrastive learning, CLIPPO can perform well on natural language understanding tasks, without any word-level loss (language modelling or masked language modelling), outperforming pixel-based prior work. Surprisingly, CLIPPO can obtain good accuracy in visual question answering, simply by rendering the question and image together. Finally, we exploit the fact that CLIPPO does not require a tokenizer to show that it can achieve strong performance on multilingual multimodal retrieval without

This paper does not describe a novel method. Instead, it studies a straightforward, incremental, yet must-know baseline given the recent progress in computer vision: selfsupervised learning for Vision Transformers (ViT). While the training recipes for standard convolutional networks have been highly mature and robust, the recipes for ViT are yet to be built, especially in the self-supervised scenarios where training becomes more challenging. In this work, we go back to basics and investigate the effects of several fundamental components for training self-supervised ViT. We observe that instability is a major issue that degrades accuracy, and it can be hidden by apparently good results. We reveal that these results are indeed partial failure, and they can be improved when training is made more stable. We benchmark ViT results in MoCo v3 and several other selfsupervised frameworks, with ablations in various aspects. We discuss the currently positive evidence as well as challenges and open questions. We hope that this work will provide useful data points and experience for future research.

我们呈现蒙版特征预测（MaskFeat），用于自我监督的视频模型的预训练。我们的方法首先随机地掩盖输入序列的一部分，然后预测蒙面区域的特征。我们研究五种不同类型的功能，找到面向导向渐变（HOG）的直方图，手工制作的特征描述符，在性能和效率方面尤其良好。我们观察到猪中的局部对比标准化对于良好的结果至关重要，这与使用HOG进行视觉识别的早期工作符合。我们的方法可以学习丰富的视觉知识和基于大规模的变压器的模型。在不使用额外的模型重量或监督的情况下，在未标记视频上预先培训的MaskFeat在动力学-400上使用MVIT-L达到86.7％的前所未有的结果，在动力学-600，88.3％上，88.3％，在动力学-700,88.8地图上SSV2上的75.0％。 MaskFeat进一步推广到图像输入，其可以被解释为具有单个帧的视频，并在想象中获得竞争结果。

最近的工作表明，自我监督的预训练导致对挑战性视觉识别任务的监督学习改进。剪辑是一种令人兴奋的学习语言监督的新方法，展示了各种基准的有希望的表现。在这项工作中，我们探索自我监督的学习是否可以帮助使用语言监督来进行视觉表现学习。我们介绍了一个用于组合自我监督学习和剪辑预训练的多任务学习框架。在使用视觉变形金刚进行预培训之后，我们在三个不同的设置下彻底评估了代表性质量，并将性能与自我监督学习进行了比较：零拍摄传输，线性分类和端到端的FineTuning。在ImageNet和电池的额外数据集中，我们发现SLIP通过大幅度提高了精度。我们将通过关于不同模型大小，培训计划和预训练预训练数据集的实验进行验证。我们的研究结果表明，滑块享有世界上最好的：性能比自我监督更好（+ 8.1％的线性精度）和语言监督（+ 5.2％的零射精精度）。

自动视觉解对我们多样化和开放的世界需要计算机视觉模型，以概括为特定任务的最小定制，类似于人类视力。计算机视觉基础型号培训，培训多样化，大型数据集，可以适应各种下游任务，对该任务来解决现实世界计算机视觉应用而言至关重要。虽然现有的视觉基础模型如剪辑，对齐和吴道2.0主要集中在映射图像和文本表示到跨模型共享表示，我们介绍了一台新的计算机视觉基础模型，佛罗伦萨，扩大粗糙的表示（现场）到精细（对象），从静态（图像）到动态（视频），以及从RGB到多个模态（标题，深度）。通过从Web级图像文本数据中纳入通用视觉语言表示，我们的佛罗伦萨模型可以很容易地适应各种计算机视觉任务，例如分类，检索，对象检测，VQA，图像标题，视频检索和动作识别。此外，佛罗伦萨在许多类型的转移学习中表现出出色的表现：全面采样的微调，线性探测，几次射击传输和用于新颖图像和物体的零拍摄传输。所有这些属性对于我们的视觉基础模型至关重要，以提供通用视觉任务。佛罗伦萨实现了新的最先进的导致44个代表性基准，例如Imagenet-1K零射击分类，最高1精度为83.74，最高5个精度为97.18，62.4地图上的Coco微调， 80.36在VQA上，动力学-600上的87.8。

本文提出了一个简单而有效的框架蒙版，该框架将新提出的掩盖自distillation纳入对比的语言图像预处理中。掩盖自distillation的核心思想是将表示从完整的图像提取到蒙版图像预测的表示形式。这种合并享有两个重要的好处。首先，掩盖的自我验证目标是本地贴片表示学习，这与视觉对比度的互补，专注于与文本相关的表示。二，掩盖的自我验证也与视觉语言对比符合训练目标的视野对比是一致的。视觉编码器用于功能对齐，因此能够学习本地语义从该语言中获得间接监督。我们提供了专门设计的实验，并进行了全面的分析，以验证这两个好处。从经验上讲，我们表明，当MaskClip应用于各种具有挑战性的下游任务时，可以在线性探测，填充和零拍摄中取得卓越的结果，并在语言编码器的指导下取得了卓越的结果。

We launch EVA, a vision-centric foundation model to explore the limits of visual representation at scale using only publicly accessible data. EVA is a vanilla ViT pre-trained to reconstruct the masked out image-text aligned vision features conditioned on visible image patches. Via this pretext task, we can efficiently scale up EVA to one billion parameters, and sets new records on a broad range of representative vision downstream tasks, such as image recognition, video action recognition, object detection, instance segmentation and semantic segmentation without heavy supervised training. Moreover, we observe quantitative changes in scaling EVA result in qualitative changes in transfer learning performance that are not present in other models. For instance, EVA takes a great leap in the challenging large vocabulary instance segmentation task: our model achieves almost the same state-of-the-art performance on LVISv1.0 dataset with over a thousand categories and COCO dataset with only eighty categories. Beyond a pure vision encoder, EVA can also serve as a vision-centric, multi-modal pivot to connect images and text. We find initializing the vision tower of a giant CLIP from EVA can greatly stabilize the training and outperform the training from scratch counterpart with much fewer samples and less compute, providing a new direction for scaling up and accelerating the costly training of multi-modal foundation models. To facilitate future research, we release all the code and models at https://github.com/baaivision/EVA.

蒙面图像建模（MIM）在各种视觉任务上取得了令人鼓舞的结果。但是，学到的表示形式的有限可区分性表现出来，使一个更强大的视力学习者还有很多值得一试。为了实现这一目标，我们提出了对比度蒙面的自动编码器（CMAE），这是一种新的自我监督的预训练方法，用于学习更全面和有能力的视觉表示。通过详细统一的对比度学习（CL）和掩盖图像模型（MIM），CMAE利用了它们各自的优势，并以强大的实例可辨别性和局部的可感知来学习表示形式。具体而言，CMAE由两个分支组成，其中在线分支是不对称的编码器编码器，而目标分支是动量更新的编码器。在培训期间，在线编码器从蒙面图像的潜在表示中重建了原始图像，以学习整体特征。馈送完整图像的目标编码器通过其在线学习通过对比度学习增强了功能可区分性。为了使CL与MIM兼容，CMAE引入了两个新组件，即用于生成合理的正视图和特征解码器的像素移位，以补充对比度对的特征。多亏了这些新颖的设计，CMAE可以有效地提高了MIM对应物的表示质量和转移性能。 CMAE在图像分类，语义分割和对象检测的高度竞争基准上实现了最先进的性能。值得注意的是，CMAE-BASE在Imagenet上获得了$ 85.3 \％$ $ TOP-1的准确性和$ 52.5 \％$ MIOU的ADE20K，分别超过了$ 0.7 \％\％$ $和$ 1.8 \％$ $。代码将公开可用。

Vision-and语言（VL）预培训已被证明对各种VL下游任务非常有效。虽然最近的工作表明，基于完全变换器的VL模型可以比以前的基于区域特征的方法更有效，但它们在下游任务上的性能通常显着降低。在本文中，我们呈现仪表〜（\ textbf {m} ultimodal \ textbf {e} nd-to-text \ textbf {t} ransform \ textbf {er}），我们通过它系统地调查如何设计和预先列车基于完全变换器的VL模型以端到端的方式。具体而言，我们将模型设计沿多个尺寸分析：视觉编码器（例如，剪辑 - vit，Swin变压器），文本编码器（例如，Roberta，Deberta），多模式融合（例如，合并注意力与共同关注），架构设计（例如，仅编码器与编码器 - 解码器）和预训练目标（例如，屏蔽图像建模）。我们对广泛的VL任务进行全面实验，并提供有关如何在保持快速推理速度的同时培训表演VL变压器的见解。值得注意的是，仪表〜使用仅使用4M图像进行预培训的VQAV2 TEST-STD设置的精度为77.64 \％，超过最先进的区域特征的VINVL模型+1.04 \％，以及优于以前最好的完全变换器的ALBEF模型+1.6 \％。

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 foundation models have recently shown excellent performance on a variety of downstream tasks in computer vision. However, most existing vision foundation models simply focus on image-level pretraining and adpation, which are limited for dynamic and complex video-level understanding tasks. To fill the gap, we present general video foundation models, InternVideo, by taking advantage of both generative and discriminative self-supervised video learning. Specifically, InternVideo efficiently explores masked video modeling and video-language contrastive learning as the pretraining objectives, and selectively coordinates video representations of these two complementary frameworks in a learnable manner to boost various video applications. Without bells and whistles, InternVideo achieves state-of-the-art performance on 39 video datasets from extensive tasks including video action recognition/detection, video-language alignment, and open-world video applications. Especially, our methods can obtain 91.1% and 77.2% top-1 accuracy on the challenging Kinetics-400 and Something-Something V2 benchmarks, respectively. All of these results effectively show the generality of our InternVideo for video understanding. The code will be released at https://github.com/OpenGVLab/InternVideo .

Large-scale cross-modal pre-training paradigms have recently shown ubiquitous success on a wide range of downstream tasks, e.g., zero-shot classification, retrieval and image captioning. However, their successes highly rely on the scale and quality of web-crawled data that naturally contain incomplete and noisy information (e.g., wrong or irrelevant content). Existing works either design manual rules to clean data or generate pseudo-targets as auxiliary signals for reducing noise impact, which do not explicitly tackle both the incorrect and incomplete challenges simultaneously. In this paper, to automatically mitigate the impact of noise by solely mining over existing data, we propose a principled Noise-robust Language-Image Pre-training framework (NLIP) to stabilize pre-training via two schemes: noise-harmonization and noise-completion. First, in noise-harmonization scheme, NLIP estimates the noise probability of each pair according to the memorization effect of cross-modal transformers, then adopts noise-adaptive regularization to harmonize the cross-modal alignments with varying degrees. Second, in noise-completion scheme, to enrich the missing object information of text, NLIP injects a concept-conditioned cross-modal decoder to obtain semantic-consistent synthetic captions to complete noisy ones, which uses the retrieved visual concepts (i.e., objects' names) for the corresponding image to guide captioning generation. By collaboratively optimizing noise-harmonization and noise-completion schemes, our NLIP can alleviate the common noise effects during image-text pre-training in a more efficient way. Extensive experiments show the significant performance improvements of our NLIP using only 26M data over existing pre-trained models (e.g., CLIP, FILIP and BLIP) on 12 zero-shot classification datasets, MSCOCO image captioning and zero-shot image-text retrieval tasks.