This repository is the official implementation of our Rejuvenating image-GPT as Strong Visual Representation Learners (accepted by ICML2024)
This paper enhances image iGPT, one of the pioneering works that introduce autoregressive pretraining to predict next pixels for visual representation learning. Two simple yet essential changes are made. First, we shift the prediction target from raw pixels to semantic tokens, enabling a higher-level understanding of visual content. Second, we supplement the autoregressive modeling by instructing the model to predict not only the next tokens but also the visible tokens. This pipeline is particularly effective when semantic tokens are encoded by discriminatively trained models, such as CLIP. We introduce this novel approach as D-iGPT. Extensive experiments showcase that D-iGPT excels as a strong learner of visual representations: A notable achievement is its compelling performance on the ImageNet-1K dataset --- by training on publicly available datasets, D-iGPT unprecedentedly achieves 90.0% top-1 accuracy with a vanilla ViT-H. Additionally, D-iGPT shows strong generalization on the downstream task.
We train our base size D-iGPT on torch+GPU and large/huge size D-iGPT on torch_xla+TPU. Please refer D-iGPT and D-iGPT_torchxla respectively.
Performance comparison on ImageNet-1K classification and ADE20K Semantic Segmentation.
| Method | Model Size | Top-1 | mIoU |
|---|---|---|---|
| MAE | ViT-B | 83.6 | 48.1 |
| RandSac | ViT-B | 83.7 | - |
| EVA | ViT-B | 85.5 | 53.3 |
| D-iGPT | ViT-B | 86.2 | 53.8 |
The torch+GPU code produces better results. This is likely caused by the system difference between torch+GPU and torchxla+TPU.
| ViT-Base | |
|---|---|
| torch+GPU | 86.2 |
| torchxla+TPU | 85.9 |
Performance comparison on ImageNet-1K classification with IN-21K as training data (if avaiable).
| Method | Model Size | Top-1 |
|---|---|---|
| MAE | ViT-L | 85.9 |
| BEiT | ViT-L | 88.6 |
| D-iGPT | ViT-L | 89.5 |
| OpenClip | ViT-H | 88.6 |
| D-iGPT | ViT-H | 90.0 |
The pretrained models are available at [huggingface🤗]
We are very grateful that this work is supported by TPU Research Cloud (TRC) program and Google Cloud Research Credits program.
@inproceedings{ren2024digpt,
title = {Rejuvenating i-GPT for Scalable Visual Representation Learning},
author = {Ren, Sucheng and Wang, Zeyu and Zhu, Hongru and Xiao, Junfei and Yuille, Alan and Xie, Cihang},
booktitle = {ICML},
year = {2024}
}
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