MixGen: A New Multi-Modal Data Augmentation

This is the official PyTorch implementation of MixGen, which is a joint data augmentation technique for vision-language representation learning to improve data efficiency.

Here are some image-text pairs generated by MixGen,

How to use

MixGen is an input-level data augmentation technique, which can be plugged-and-played into existing vision-language learning methods with minimal code change.

Here we adopt ALBEF, NeurIPS'21 as an illustrating example. We only need to add one line between dataloader and model forward here.

That is, change from

for i, (image, text) in enumerate(metric_logger.log_every(data_loader, print_freq, header)):
    optimizer.zero_grad()

to

import mixgen as mg
for i, (image, text) in enumerate(metric_logger.log_every(data_loader, print_freq, header)):
    image, text = mg.mixgen(image, text, num=16)
    optimizer.zero_grad()

And that's it!!! No more changes needed to be made. You can simply kicoff training just like ALBEF does,

python -m torch.distributed.launch --nproc_per_node=8 --use_env Pretrain.py

Citation

If you find MixGen useful in your research, please kindly consider to cite the following paper.

@InProceedings{Hao_2023_WACV,
    author    = {Hao, Xiaoshuai and Zhu, Yi and Appalaraju, Srikar and Zhang, Aston and Zhang, Wanqian and Li, Bo and Li, Mu},
    title     = {MixGen: A New Multi-Modal Data Augmentation},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV) Workshops},
    month     = {January},
    year      = {2023},
    pages     = {379-389}
}

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License

This project is licensed under the Apache-2.0 License.