Visual Prompt Generation: Cross-Attention in Q-Former

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Abstract and 1 Introduction

1. Related Work

   2.1. Multimodal Learning

   2.2. Multiple Instance Learning

2. Methodology

   3.1. Preliminaries and Notations

   3.2. Relations between Attention-based VPG and MIL

   3.3. MIVPG for Multiple Visual Inputs

   3.4. Unveiling Instance Correlation in MIVPG for Enhanced Multi-instance Scenarios

3. Experiments and 4.1. General Setup

   4.2. Scenario 1: Samples with Single Image

   4.3. Scenario 2: Samples with Multiple Images, with Each Image as a General Embedding

   4.4. Scenario 3: Samples with Multiple Images, with Each Image Having Multiple Patches to be Considered and 4.5. Case Study

4. Conclusion and References

\ Supplementary Material

A. Detailed Architecture of QFormer

B. Proof of Proposition

C. More Experiments

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A. Detailed Architecture of QFormer

The architecture overview is depicted in Figure 7. Specifically, QFormer is initialized as a BERT-based model[8] comprising a total of L = 12 layers. In contrast to typical BERT models that process textual inputs, QFormer takes R = 32 learnable query embeddings as inputs. These embeddings are utilized to extract visual information from the input visual data during Stage-1 pretraining in BLIP2[22]. Subsequently, they serve as visual prompt embeddings for the LLM inputs after projection.

\ Inside the QFormer, each layer includes a self-attention module composed of a Multi-Head Attention component and a Forward module (consisting of Linear, LayerNorm, and Residual Connection). The cross-attention module, initialized with random values, is inserted every G layers, where learnable query embeddings interact with visual embeddings. In the main paper, for the sake of conciseness, we condensed the representation of the multi-head attention and forward modules into self(cross) attention modules. Furthermore, we exclusively illustrated the modifications made to the cross-attention module in MIVPG, as the self-attention modules remain unchanged. The final QFormer output is represented by the last layer’s query embeddings.

\ For a more comprehensive understanding, readers are encouraged to refer to [22].

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:::info Authors:

(1) Wenliang Zhong, The University of Texas at Arlington ([e-mail]);

(2) Wenyi Wu, Amazon ([e-mail]);

(3) Qi Li, Amazon ([e-mail]);

(4) Rob Barton, Amazon ([e-mail]);

(5) Boxin Du, Amazon ([e-mail]);

(6) Shioulin Sam, Amazon ([e-mail]);

(7) Karim Bouyarmane, Amazon ([e-mail]);

(8) Ismail Tutar, Amazon ([e-mail]);

(9) Junzhou Huang, The University of Texas at Arlington ([e-mail]).

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