
MatCha
Overview
MatCha has been proposed in the paper MatCha: Enhancing Visual Language Pretraining with Math Reasoning and Chart Derendering, from Fangyu Liu, Francesco Piccinno, Syrine Krichene, Chenxi Pang, Kenton Lee, Mandar Joshi, Yasemin Altun, Nigel Collier, Julian Martin Eisenschlos.
The abstract of the paper states the following:
Visual language data such as plots, charts, and infographics are ubiquitous in the human world. However, state-of-the-art vision-language models do not perform well on these data. We propose MatCha (Math reasoning and Chart derendering pretraining) to enhance visual language models' capabilities in jointly modeling charts/plots and language data. Specifically, we propose several pretraining tasks that cover plot deconstruction and numerical reasoning which are the key capabilities in visual language modeling. We perform the MatCha pretraining starting from Pix2Struct, a recently proposed image-to-text visual language model. On standard benchmarks such as PlotQA and ChartQA, the MatCha model outperforms state-of-the-art methods by as much as nearly 20%. We also examine how well MatCha pretraining transfers to domains such as screenshots, textbook diagrams, and document figures and observe overall improvement, verifying the usefulness of MatCha pretraining on broader visual language tasks.
Model description
MatCha is a model that is trained using Pix2Struct architecture. You can find more information about Pix2Struct in the Pix2Struct documentation.
MatCha is a Visual Question Answering subset of Pix2Struct architecture. It renders the input question on the image and predicts the answer.
Usage
Currently 6 checkpoints are available for MatCha: