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New method achieves SOTA multimodal classification without fine-tuning

Researchers have developed CoMET, a novel method for multimodal classification that leverages frozen pre-trained backbones and Tabular Foundation Models (TFMs). This approach uses Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to compress modality embeddings before feeding them into a TFM, eliminating the need for fine-tuning. For improved representation quality, especially when CLS tokens are misaligned, they propose PALPooling, an adaptive token pooler. CoMET achieves state-of-the-art results on various multimodal benchmarks and can handle large-scale datasets with over 500,000 samples and 2,000 classes without any training. AI

IMPACT This method challenges traditional fine-tuning approaches, potentially enabling faster and more scalable multimodal classification across various domains.

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New method achieves SOTA multimodal classification without fine-tuning

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  1. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Modular Multimodal Classification Without Fine-Tuning: A Simple Compositional Approach

    We introduce CoMET, \textit{\textbf{C}omposing \textbf{M}odality \textbf{E}ncoders with \textbf{T}abular foundation models}, a simple yet highly competitive method for multimodal classification: pass each modality through a frozen pre-trained backbone, compress the resulting embe…