Code for the ICML 2021 (long talk) paper: "ViLT: Vision-and-Language Transformer Without Convolution or Region Supervision"
pip install -r requirements.txt
pip install -e .
We provide five pretrained weights
pip install gradio==1.6.4
python demo.py with num_gpus=<0 if you have no gpus else 1> load_path="<YOUR_WEIGHT_ROOT>/vilt_200k_mlm_itm.ckpt"
ex)
python demo.py with num_gpus=0 load_path="weights/vilt_200k_mlm_itm.ckpt"
pip install gradio==1.6.4
python demo_vqa.py with num_gpus=<0 if you have no gpus else 1> load_path="<YOUR_WEIGHT_ROOT>/vilt_vqa.ckpt" test_only=True
ex)
python demo_vqa.py with num_gpus=0 load_path="weights/vilt_vqa.ckpt" test_only=True
See DATA.md
See TRAIN.md
See EVAL.md
If you use any part of this code and pretrained weights for your own purpose, please cite our paper.
@InProceedings{pmlr-v139-kim21k,
title = {ViLT: Vision-and-Language Transformer Without Convolution or Region Supervision},
author = {Kim, Wonjae and Son, Bokyung and Kim, Ildoo},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Machine Learning},
pages = {5583--5594},
year = {2021},
editor = {Meila, Marina and Zhang, Tong},
volume = {139},
series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
month = {18--24 Jul},
publisher = {PMLR},
pdf = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/kim21k/kim21k.pdf},
url = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v139/kim21k.html},
abstract = {Vision-and-Language Pre-training (VLP) has improved performance on various joint vision-and-language downstream tasks. Current approaches to VLP heavily rely on image feature extraction processes, most of which involve region supervision (e.g., object detection) and the convolutional architecture (e.g., ResNet). Although disregarded in the literature, we find it problematic in terms of both (1) efficiency/speed, that simply extracting input features requires much more computation than the multimodal interaction steps; and (2) expressive power, as it is upper bounded to the expressive power of the visual embedder and its predefined visual vocabulary. In this paper, we present a minimal VLP model, Vision-and-Language Transformer (ViLT), monolithic in the sense that the processing of visual inputs is drastically simplified to just the same convolution-free manner that we process textual inputs. We show that ViLT is up to tens of times faster than previous VLP models, yet with competitive or better downstream task performance. Our code and pre-trained weights are available at https://github.com/dandelin/vilt.}
}