4 papers
Active Data Curation Effectively Distills Large-Scale Multimodal Models
Vishaal Udandarao, Nikhil Parthasarathy, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem +6
Knowledge distillation (KD) is the de facto standard for compressing large-scale models into smaller ones. Prior works have explored ever more complex KD strategies involving diffe…
SigLIP 2: Multilingual Vision-Language Encoders with Improved Semantic Understanding, Localization, and Dense Features
Michael Tschannen, Alexey Gritsenko, Xiao Wang +11
We introduce SigLIP 2, a family of new multilingual vision-language encoders that build on the success of the original SigLIP. In this second iteration, we extend the original imag…
Bad Students Make Great Teachers: Active Learning Accelerates Large-Scale Visual Understanding
Talfan Evans, Shreya Pathak, Hamza Merzic +3
Power-law scaling indicates that large-scale training with uniform sampling is prohibitively slow. Active learning methods aim to increase data efficiency by prioritizing learning…
Data curation via joint example selection further accelerates multimodal learning
Talfan Evans, Nikhil Parthasarathy, Hamza Merzic +1
Data curation is an essential component of large-scale pretraining. In this work, we demonstrate that jointly selecting batches of data is more effective for learning than selectin…