GenHancer

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GenHancer

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PaperarXiv:2503.19480
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What is GenHancer?

GenHancer is an innovative approach to enhance vision-language models, particularly focusing on improving CLIP's ability to perceive fine-grained visual details. The model introduces a novel two-stage post-training scheme that effectively bridges the gap between generative and discriminative models, resulting in significant performance improvements on vision-centric tasks.

Implementation Details

The model implements a sophisticated enhancement strategy through three key mechanisms: (1) A global-token conditioning approach that avoids representation collapse, (2) A two-stage training strategy that filters out extraneous information, and (3) Support for both continuous and discrete denoisers. This implementation has demonstrated consistent performance improvements, notably achieving a 6.0% enhancement on OpenAICLIP in the MMVP-VLM benchmark.

  • Global visual token conditioning strategy
  • Two-stage training methodology
  • Lightweight denoiser implementation
  • Versatile support for different generation paradigms

Core Capabilities

  • Enhanced fine-grained visual perception
  • Improved vision-language representation
  • Plug-and-play compatibility with existing CLIP models
  • Support for multiple CLIP variants (OpenAICLIP, MetaCLIP, SigLIP)

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What makes this model unique?

GenHancer's uniqueness lies in its discovery that imperfect generative models can actually enhance visual representations more effectively than perfect ones. The model's two-stage training approach and global token conditioning strategy represent a significant advancement in vision-language model enhancement.

Q: What are the recommended use cases?

GenHancer is particularly suited for enhancing pre-trained CLIP models' fine-grained visual perception capabilities. It can be integrated into multimodal large language models to improve their vision-centric performance, making it valuable for applications requiring detailed visual understanding.

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