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Large-scale Bilingual Language-Image Contrastive Learning

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2022-04-18 v2 Computation and Language

Abstract

This paper is a technical report to share our experience and findings building a Korean and English bilingual multimodal model. While many of the multimodal datasets focus on English and multilingual multimodal research uses machine-translated texts, employing such machine-translated texts is limited to describing unique expressions, cultural information, and proper noun in languages other than English. In this work, we collect 1.1 billion image-text pairs (708 million Korean and 476 million English) and train a bilingual multimodal model named KELIP. We introduce simple yet effective training schemes, including MAE pre-training and multi-crop augmentation. Extensive experiments demonstrate that a model trained with such training schemes shows competitive performance in both languages. Moreover, we discuss multimodal-related research questions: 1) strong augmentation-based methods can distract the model from learning proper multimodal relations; 2) training multimodal model without cross-lingual relation can learn the relation via visual semantics; 3) our bilingual KELIP can capture cultural differences of visual semantics for the same meaning of words; 4) a large-scale multimodal model can be used for multimodal feature analogy. We hope that this work will provide helpful experience and findings for future research. We provide an open-source pre-trained KELIP.

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@article{arxiv.2203.14463,
  title  = {Large-scale Bilingual Language-Image Contrastive Learning},
  author = {Byungsoo Ko and Geonmo Gu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.14463},
  year   = {2022}
}

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Accepted by ICLRW2022

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