Training-free Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval with Local Concept Reranking

Concetti Chiave

Introducing a training-free method for zero-shot composed image retrieval with local concept reranking to enhance performance.

Sintesi

The content discusses the challenges of composed image retrieval and introduces a novel training-free approach. It covers the methodology, experiments on various datasets, comparisons with state-of-the-art methods, and ablation studies. The proposed method achieves significant improvements in performance across different benchmarks.

Introduction

• Composed image retrieval aims to retrieve target images through composed queries.
• Challenges arise from ambiguous requirements and modality gaps between images and text.

Training-Free Approach

• Introduces a training-free method for zero-shot composed image retrieval.
• Utilizes global retrieval baseline and local concept reranking for improved performance.

Experiments and Results

• Conducted experiments on CIRR, FashionIQ, CIRCO, and COCO datasets.
• Achieved comparable performances to state-of-the-art methods with significant improvements in some cases.

Ablation Studies

• Evaluated variants of captioners, large language models, prompts, baselines, and re-rank top K.
• Identified the impact of different components on the model's performance.

Statistiche

To avoid difficult-to-obtain labeled triplet training data, zero-shot composed image retrieval (ZS-CIR) has been introduced.
Extensive experiments show that the proposed method achieves comparable performances to state-of-the-art triplet training based methods.
Our model can generate human-understandable explicit attributes in the training-free framework.

Citazioni

"Our method is designed to convert the composed query into explicit human-understandable text."
"Extensive experiments on four ZS-CIR benchmarks show that our method achieves comparable performances."

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Training-free Zero-shot Composed Image Retrieval with Local Concept Reranking

by Shitong Sun,... alle arxiv.org 03-26-2024

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2312.08924.pdf

Domande più approfondite

How can this training-free approach be applied to other domains beyond image retrieval

The training-free approach presented in the context of zero-shot composed image retrieval can be applied to various other domains beyond image retrieval, such as natural language processing (NLP), content recommendation systems, and multimodal tasks.
In NLP, this method could be utilized for text generation tasks where a model needs to understand complex instructions or requirements provided in textual form. For instance, it could assist in generating detailed responses based on specific prompts or queries without the need for extensive training data.
For content recommendation systems, the training-free approach could enhance personalized recommendations by understanding user preferences expressed through text-based queries. By extracting key concepts from user input and matching them with available content, more accurate recommendations can be made without relying on large labeled datasets.
In multimodal tasks involving both images and text, such as visual question answering or captioning tasks, this approach could enable models to generate relevant captions or answers based on combined image-text inputs without explicit supervision. This would improve the generalization ability of models across different modalities and promote more efficient learning processes.

What are potential drawbacks or limitations of relying solely on text-based queries

Relying solely on text-based queries may have some potential drawbacks or limitations:

Ambiguity: Textual descriptions can sometimes be ambiguous or vague, leading to misinterpretation by the model. Without additional context from images or other modalities, there is a risk of misunderstanding complex instructions or nuanced requirements.

Lack of Visual Information: Text-only queries may not capture all aspects of a scenario that are better conveyed through visuals. Certain details like colors, shapes, spatial relationships might be challenging to express accurately through text alone.

Limited Expressiveness: Text-based queries may lack the richness and depth that visual information provides. Models relying solely on textual inputs might struggle with abstract concepts or intricate details that are better understood visually.

Difficulty Handling Unseen Data: In scenarios where unseen data is encountered during inference, purely text-driven models may struggle to generalize effectively if they haven't been exposed to similar examples during training.

How might prompt engineering impact the reasoning ability of large language models

Prompt engineering plays a crucial role in shaping the reasoning ability of large language models by providing structured guidance and constraints for model behavior:

Enhanced Reasoning Paths: Well-designed prompts guide models towards specific reasoning paths by setting clear expectations about what type of output is desired given certain inputs.

Improved Generalization: Through prompt engineering techniques like task instruction prompting or chain-of-thought prompting, models can learn how to adapt their reasoning strategies across diverse scenarios even with limited supervision.

3Interpretability: Prompts help make model decisions more interpretable as they provide insights into why certain outputs were generated based on given inputs.
4Efficient Learning: By leveraging prompts tailored for specific downstream tasks within pre-trained language models' capabilities allows for faster adaptation and fine-tuning compared to traditional supervised learning approaches.