Taku Hasegawa


2023

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DueT: Image-Text Contrastive Transfer Learning with Dual-adapter Tuning
Taku Hasegawa | Kyosuke Nishida | Koki Maeda | Kuniko Saito
Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

This paper presents DueT, a novel transfer learning method for vision and language models built by contrastive learning. In DueT, adapters are inserted into the image and text encoders, which have been initialized using models pre-trained on uni-modal corpora and then frozen. By training only these adapters, DueT enables efficient learning with a reduced number of trainable parameters. Moreover, unlike traditional adapters, those in DueT are equipped with a gating mechanism, enabling effective transfer and connection of knowledge acquired from pre-trained uni-modal encoders while preventing catastrophic forgetting. We report that DueT outperformed simple fine-tuning, the conventional method fixing only the image encoder and training only the text encoder, and the LoRA-based adapter method in accuracy and parameter efficiency for 0-shot image and text retrieval in both English and Japanese domains.

2022

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Scene-Text Aware Image and Text Retrieval with Dual-Encoder
Shumpei Miyawaki | Taku Hasegawa | Kyosuke Nishida | Takuma Kato | Jun Suzuki
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop

We tackle the tasks of image and text retrieval using a dual-encoder model in which images and text are encoded independently. This model has attracted attention as an approach that enables efficient offline inferences by connecting both vision and language in the same semantic space; however, whether an image encoder as part of a dual-encoder model can interpret scene-text (i.e., the textual information in images) is unclear. We propose pre-training methods that encourage a joint understanding of the scene-text and surrounding visual information. The experimental results demonstrate that our methods improve the retrieval performances of the dual-encoder models.