TY - UNPB
T1 - Implications of the Convergence of Language and Vision Model Geometries
AU - Li, Jiaang
AU - Kementchedjhieva, Yova Radoslavova
AU - Søgaard, Anders
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Large-scale pretrained language models (LMs) are said to ``lack the ability to connect [their] utterances to the world'' (Bender and Koller, 2020). If so, we would expect LM representations to be unrelated to representations in computer vision models. To investigate this, we present an empirical evaluation across three different LMs (BERT, GPT2, and OPT) and three computer vision models (VMs, including ResNet, SegFormer, and MAE). Our experiments show that LMs converge towards representations that are partially isomorphic to those of VMs, with dispersion, and polysemy both factoring into the alignability of vision and language spaces. We discuss the implications of this finding.
AB - Large-scale pretrained language models (LMs) are said to ``lack the ability to connect [their] utterances to the world'' (Bender and Koller, 2020). If so, we would expect LM representations to be unrelated to representations in computer vision models. To investigate this, we present an empirical evaluation across three different LMs (BERT, GPT2, and OPT) and three computer vision models (VMs, including ResNet, SegFormer, and MAE). Our experiments show that LMs converge towards representations that are partially isomorphic to those of VMs, with dispersion, and polysemy both factoring into the alignability of vision and language spaces. We discuss the implications of this finding.
M3 - Preprint
BT - Implications of the Convergence of Language and Vision Model Geometries
PB - arXiv.org
ER -