Chien-Yi Wang

Wenbin Zhu, Chien-Yi Wang, Kuan-Lun Tseng et al. · microsoft-research

Due to the rising concern of data privacy, it's reasonable to assume the local client data can't be transferred to a centralized server, nor their associated identity label is provided. To support continuous learning and fill the last-mile quality gap, we introduce a new problem setup called Local-Adaptive Face Recognition (LaFR). Leveraging the environment-specific local data after the deployment of the initial global model, LaFR aims at getting optimal performance by training local-adapted models automatically and un-supervisely, as opposed to fixing their initial global model. We achieve this by a newly proposed embedding cluster model based on Graph Convolution Network (GCN), which is trained via meta-optimization procedure. Compared with previous works, our meta-clustering model can generalize well in unseen local environments. With the pseudo identity labels from the clustering results, we further introduce novel regularization techniques to improve the model adaptation performance. Extensive experiments on racial and internal sensor adaptation demonstrate that our proposed solution is more effective for adapting face recognition models in each specific environment. Meanwhile, we show that LaFR can further improve the global model by a simple federated aggregation over the updated local models.

Chih-Jung Chang, Yaw-Chern Lee, Shih-Hsuan Yao et al. · microsoft-research, nvidia

Face anti-spoofing (FAS) is indispensable for a face recognition system. Many texture-driven countermeasures were developed against presentation attacks (PAs), but the performance against unseen domains or unseen spoofing types is still unsatisfactory. Instead of exhaustively collecting all the spoofing variations and making binary decisions of live/spoof, we offer a new perspective on the FAS task to distinguish between normal and abnormal movements of live and spoof presentations. We propose Geometry-Aware Interaction Network (GAIN), which exploits dense facial landmarks with spatio-temporal graph convolutional network (ST-GCN) to establish a more interpretable and modularized FAS model. Additionally, with our cross-attention feature interaction mechanism, GAIN can be easily integrated with other existing methods to significantly boost performance. Our approach achieves state-of-the-art performance in the standard intra- and cross-dataset evaluations. Moreover, our model outperforms state-of-the-art methods by a large margin in the cross-dataset cross-type protocol on CASIA-SURF 3DMask (+10.26% higher AUC score), exhibiting strong robustness against domain shifts and unseen spoofing types.

Shih-Yang Liu, Chien-Yi Wang, Hongxu Yin et al.

Among the widely used parameter-efficient fine-tuning (PEFT) methods, LoRA and its variants have gained considerable popularity because of avoiding additional inference costs. However, there still often exists an accuracy gap between these methods and full fine-tuning (FT). In this work, we first introduce a novel weight decomposition analysis to investigate the inherent differences between FT and LoRA. Aiming to resemble the learning capacity of FT from the findings, we propose Weight-Decomposed Low-Rank Adaptation (DoRA). DoRA decomposes the pre-trained weight into two components, magnitude and direction, for fine-tuning, specifically employing LoRA for directional updates to efficiently minimize the number of trainable parameters. By employing \ours, we enhance both the learning capacity and training stability of LoRA while avoiding any additional inference overhead. \ours~consistently outperforms LoRA on fine-tuning LLaMA, LLaVA, and VL-BART on various downstream tasks, such as commonsense reasoning, visual instruction tuning, and image/video-text understanding. Code is available at https://github.com/NVlabs/DoRA.