THIS REPORT PRESENTS THE TECHNICAL DETAILS OF OUR SUBMISSION ON THE EGO4D AUDIO-VISUAL (AV) AUTOMATIC SPEECH RECOGNITION CHALLENGE 2023 FROM THE OXFORDVGG TEAM.
SPECIFICALLY, OUR APPROACH FINDS A SUFFIX THAT, WHEN ATTACHED TO A WIDE RANGE OF QUERIES FOR AN LLM TO PRODUCE OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT, AIMS TO MAXIMIZE THE PROBABILITY THAT THE MODEL PRODUCES AN AFFIRMATIVE RESPONSE (RATHER THAN REFUSING TO ANSWER).
TO THIS END, WE PROPOSE A BANK OF 3D-AWARE HIERARCHICAL FEATURES, INCLUDING GLOBAL, POINT-LEVEL, AND PIXEL-ALIGNED FEATURES, TO FACILITATE INFORMATIVE ENCODING.
BASED ON THIS OBSERVATION, WE PROPOSE A DATA SELECTOR BASED ON INSTAG TO SELECT 6K DIVERSE AND COMPLEX SAMPLES FROM OPEN-SOURCE DATASETS AND FINE-TUNE MODELS ON INSTAG-SELECTED DATA.
OUR APPROACH, NAMELY DIFFUSION-BASED CONDITIONAL INPAINTING FOR VIRTUAL TRY-ON (DCI-VTON), EFFECTIVELY UTILIZES THE POWER OF THE DIFFUSION MODEL, AND THE INCORPORATION OF THE WARPING MODULE HELPS TO PRODUCE HIGH-QUALITY AND REALISTIC VIRTUAL TRY-ON RESULTS.
IN THIS , WE DRAW INSPIRATION FROM ALBERTO ELFES' PIONEERING WORK IN 1989, WHERE HE INTRODUCED THE CONCEPT OF THE OCCUPANCY GRID AS WORLD MODELS FOR ROBOTS.
DATABASE ADMINISTRATORS (DBAS) PLAY A CRUCIAL ROLE IN MANAGING, MAINTAINING AND OPTIMIZING A DATABASE SYSTEM TO ENSURE DATA AVAILABILITY, PERFORMANCE, AND RELIABILITY.
IN THIS WORK, WE DEVELOP A UNIVERSAL SOLUTION TO VPR -- A TECHNIQUE THAT WORKS ACROSS A BROAD RANGE OF STRUCTURED AND UNSTRUCTURED ENVIRONMENTS (URBAN, OUTDOORS, INDOORS, AERIAL, UNDERWATER, AND SUBTERRANEAN ENVIRONMENTS) WITHOUT ANY RE-TRAINING OR FINE-TUNING.
IN THIS WORK, WE DEVELOP AND RELEASE LLAMA 2, A COLLECTION OF PRETRAINED AND FINE-TUNED LARGE LANGUAGE MODELS (LLMS) RANGING IN SCALE FROM 7 BILLION TO 70 BILLION PARAMETERS.
SYNTHETIC IMAGE DATASETS OFFER UNMATCHED ADVANTAGES FOR DESIGNING AND EVALUATING DEEP NEURAL NETWORKS: THEY MAKE IT POSSIBLE TO (I) RENDER AS MANY DATA SAMPLES AS NEEDED, (II) PRECISELY CONTROL EACH SCENE AND YIELD GRANULAR GROUND TRUTH LABELS (AND CAPTIONS), (III) PRECISELY CONTROL DISTRIBUTION SHIFTS BETWEEN TRAINING AND TESTING TO ISOLATE VARIABLES OF INTEREST FOR SOUND EXPERIMENTATION.
DIFFERENT FROM THE PREVIOUS SELF-KNOWLEDGE DISTILLATION, THIS STAGE FINETUNES THE STUDENT'S HEAD WITH ONLY 20% TRAINING TIME AS A PLUG-AND-PLAY TRAINING STRATEGY.
WE, FOR THE FIRST TIME, PROPOSE AN IMAGE RETRIEVAL PARADIGM LEVERAGING GLOBAL FEATURE ONLY TO ENABLE ACCURATE AND LIGHTWEIGHT IMAGE RETRIEVAL FOR BOTH COARSE RETRIEVAL AND RERANKING, THUS THE NAME - SUPERGLOBAL.
THIS EVOLUTION REQUIRES A COMBINATION OF BOTH TRADITIONAL METHODS (SUCH AS TERM-BASED SPARSE RETRIEVAL METHODS WITH RAPID RESPONSE) AND MODERN NEURAL ARCHITECTURES (SUCH AS LANGUAGE MODELS WITH POWERFUL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING CAPACITY).