Lu Jiang

Lijun Yu, Yong Cheng, Zhiruo Wang et al. · cmu, deepmind

In this work, we introduce Semantic Pyramid AutoEncoder (SPAE) for enabling frozen LLMs to perform both understanding and generation tasks involving non-linguistic modalities such as images or videos. SPAE converts between raw pixels and interpretable lexical tokens (or words) extracted from the LLM's vocabulary. The resulting tokens capture both the semantic meaning and the fine-grained details needed for visual reconstruction, effectively translating the visual content into a language comprehensible to the LLM, and empowering it to perform a wide array of multimodal tasks. Our approach is validated through in-context learning experiments with frozen PaLM 2 and GPT 3.5 on a diverse set of image understanding and generation tasks. Our method marks the first successful attempt to enable a frozen LLM to generate image content while surpassing state-of-the-art performance in image understanding tasks, under the same setting, by over 25%.

Lu Jiang, Qi Wang, Yuhang Chang et al.

Category imbalance is one of the most popular and important issues in the domain of classification. Emotion classification model trained on imbalanced datasets easily leads to unreliable prediction. The traditional machine learning method tends to favor the majority class, which leads to the lack of minority class information in the model. Moreover, most existing models will produce abnormal sensitivity issues or performance degradation. We propose a robust learning algorithm based on adaptive cost-sensitivity and recursive denoising, which is a generalized framework and can be incorporated into most stochastic optimization algorithms. The proposed method uses the dynamic kernel distance optimization model between the sample and the decision boundary, which makes full use of the sample's prior information. In addition, we also put forward an effective method to filter noise, the main idea of which is to judge the noise by finding the nearest neighbors of the minority class. In order to evaluate the strength of the proposed method, we not only carry out experiments on standard datasets but also apply it to emotional classification problems with different imbalance rates (IR). Experimental results show that the proposed general framework is superior to traditional methods in Accuracy, G-mean, Recall and F1-score.