FETA: Towards Specializing Foundation Models for Expert Task Applications

1 code implementation • 8 Sep 2022 • Amit Alfassy, Assaf Arbelle, Oshri Halimi, Sivan Harary, Roei Herzig, Eli Schwartz, Rameswar Panda, Michele Dolfi, Christoph Auer, Kate Saenko, PeterW. J. Staar, Rogerio Feris, Leonid Karlinsky

However, as we show in this paper, FMs still have poor out-of-the-box performance on expert tasks (e. g. retrieval of car manuals technical illustrations from language queries), data for which is either unseen or belonging to a long-tail part of the data distribution of the huge datasets used for FM pre-training.

Domain Generalization Image Retrieval +6