Bridging Vision and Language Encoders: Parameter-Efficient Tuning for
  Referring Image Segmentation
Zunnan Xu Zhihong Chen Yong Zhang Yibing Song Xiang Wan Guanbin Li
Parameter Efficient Tuning (PET) has gained attention for reducing the number
of parameters while maintaining performance and providing better hardware
resource savings, but few studies investigate dense prediction tasks and
interaction between modalities. In this paper, we do an investigation of
efficient tuning problems on referring image segmentation. We propose a novel
adapter called Bridger to facilitate cross-modal information exchange and
inject task-specific information into the pre-trained model. We also design a
lightweight decoder for image segmentation. Our approach achieves comparable or
superior performance with only 1.61\% to 3.38\% backbone parameter updates,
evaluated on challenging benchmarks. The code is available at
\url{https://github.com/kkakkkka/ETRIS}.