CLIP在多物体场景中表现不佳,因图像和文本编码器存在大小与顺序偏好。
Analyzing CLIP's Performance Limitations in Multi-Object Scenarios: A Controlled High-Resolution Study
- 构建新数据集,控制物体大小与描述顺序,分析CLIP在多物体场景的偏差。
- 图像编码器倾向识别更大物体,文本编码器更关注描述中靠前的物体。
- 揭示了预训练过程导致的系统性偏差,对生成模型也有显著影响。
对比语言-图像预训练(CLIP)模型在零样本分类任务中表现优异,但在复杂多物体场景下的有效性仍面临挑战。本研究通过受控实验,全面分析了CLIP在多物体情境中的性能局限。我们构建了两个定制数据集SimCO和CompCO,评估CLIP的图像与文本编码器在不同多物体配置下的表现。结果表明,两个编码器均存在显著偏差:图像编码器倾向于关注较大物体,而文本编码器更重视描述中靠前的物体。我们推测这些偏差源于CLIP的训练过程,并通过分析COCO数据集及训练进展提供了证据支持。此外,我们将研究扩展至Stable Diffusion模型,发现CLIP文本编码器的偏差显著影响文生图任务。实验展示了这些偏差如何影响图像-标题匹配与生成任务,尤其在操控物体大小与描述顺序时表现明显。该工作为理解CLIP在复杂视觉环境中的行为提供了重要洞见,并指出了未来视觉-语言模型的改进方向。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) models have demonstrated remarkable performance in zero-shot classification tasks, yet their efficacy in handling complex multi-object scenarios remains challenging. This study presents a comprehensive analysis of CLIP's performance limitations in multi-object contexts through controlled experiments. We introduce two custom datasets, SimCO and CompCO, to evaluate CLIP's image and text encoders in various multi-object configurations. Our findings reveal significant biases in both encoders: the image encoder favors larger objects, while the text encoder prioritizes objects mentioned first in descriptions. We hypothesize these biases originate from CLIP's training process and provide evidence through analyses of the COCO dataset and CLIP's training progression. Additionally, we extend our investigation to Stable Diffusion models, revealing that biases in the CLIP text encoder significantly impact text-to-image generation tasks. Our experiments demonstrate how these biases affect CLIP's performance in image-caption matching and generation tasks, particularly when manipulating object sizes and their order in captions. This work contributes valuable insights into CLIP's behavior in complex visual environments and highlights areas for improvement in future vision-language models.
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