AM-RADIO: Agglomerative Vision Foundation Model -- Reduce All Domains Into One

Autor: Ranzinger, Mike, Heinrich, Greg, Kautz, Jan, Molchanov, Pavlo
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), 2024, pp. 12490-12500
Druh dokumentu: Working Paper
Popis: A handful of visual foundation models (VFMs) have recently emerged as the backbones for numerous downstream tasks. VFMs like CLIP, DINOv2, SAM are trained with distinct objectives, exhibiting unique characteristics for various downstream tasks. We find that despite their conceptual differences, these models can be effectively merged into a unified model through multi-teacher distillation. We name this approach AM-RADIO (Agglomerative Model -- Reduce All Domains Into One). This integrative approach not only surpasses the performance of individual teacher models but also amalgamates their distinctive features, such as zero-shot vision-language comprehension, detailed pixel-level understanding, and open vocabulary segmentation capabilities. In pursuit of the most hardware-efficient backbone, we evaluated numerous architectures in our multi-teacher distillation pipeline using the same training recipe. This led to the development of a novel architecture (E-RADIO) that exceeds the performance of its predecessors and is at least 7x faster than the teacher models. Our comprehensive benchmarking process covers downstream tasks including ImageNet classification, ADE20k semantic segmentation, COCO object detection and LLaVa-1.5 framework. Code: https://github.com/NVlabs/RADIO
Comment: CVPR 2024 Version 3: CVPR Camera Ready, reconfigured full paper, table 1 is now more comprehensive Version 2: Added more acknowledgements and updated table 7 with more recent results. Ensured that the link in the abstract to our code is working properly Version 3: Fix broken hyperlinks
Databáze: arXiv