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Vision Transformer Adapters for Generalizable Multitask Learning

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2023-08-25 v1 Computation and Language

Abstract

We introduce the first multitasking vision transformer adapters that learn generalizable task affinities which can be applied to novel tasks and domains. Integrated into an off-the-shelf vision transformer backbone, our adapters can simultaneously solve multiple dense vision tasks in a parameter-efficient manner, unlike existing multitasking transformers that are parametrically expensive. In contrast to concurrent methods, we do not require retraining or fine-tuning whenever a new task or domain is added. We introduce a task-adapted attention mechanism within our adapter framework that combines gradient-based task similarities with attention-based ones. The learned task affinities generalize to the following settings: zero-shot task transfer, unsupervised domain adaptation, and generalization without fine-tuning to novel domains. We demonstrate that our approach outperforms not only the existing convolutional neural network-based multitasking methods but also the vision transformer-based ones. Our project page is at \url{https://ivrl.github.io/VTAGML}.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2308.12372,
  title  = {Vision Transformer Adapters for Generalizable Multitask Learning},
  author = {Deblina Bhattacharjee and Sabine Süsstrunk and Mathieu Salzmann},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.12372},
  year   = {2023}
}

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Accepted to ICCV 2023

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