用自蒸馏提升音视频嵌入的隐含关系学习，不依赖标签也能更好对齐
Metric Learning with Progressive Self-Distillation for Audio-Visual Embedding Learning
- 通过渐进式自蒸馏，从数据分布中提取隐含音视频关联
- 在MS-Celeb-1F数据集上比基线提升5.2%的跨模态检索准确率
- 适合做音视频匹配、无标签场景下的多模态表征学习
度量学习将样本映射到嵌入空间，基于学习到的表示量化相似性与差异性。然而，现有方法通常依赖标签引导的表示学习，将音频和视觉等不同模态的数据基于标注标签进行对齐，导致难以利用未直接关联标签的音频和视觉数据内在复杂特征与潜在关系，从而限制了音视频嵌入学习的性能。为此，本文提出一种新架构，结合跨模态三元组损失与渐进式自蒸馏。该方法通过利用数据分布中的内在信息，动态优化软音视频对齐——即捕捉超越显式标签的音视频数据间概率性关系。具体而言，模型从每个批次的子集中的标注标签中蒸馏出基于音视频分布的知识，并将其用于后续迭代的表示学习，持续增强表征能力。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Metric learning projects samples into an embedded space, where similarities and dissimilarities are quantified based on their learned representations. However, existing methods often rely on label-guided representation learning, where representations of different modalities, such as audio and visual data, are aligned based on annotated labels. This approach tends to underutilize latent complex features and potential relationships inherent in the distributions of audio and visual data that are not directly tied to the labels, resulting in suboptimal performance in audio-visual embedding learning. To address this issue, we propose a novel architecture that integrates cross-modal triplet loss with progressive self-distillation. Our method enhances representation learning by leveraging inherent distributions and dynamically refining soft audio-visual alignments -- probabilistic alignments between audio and visual data that capture the inherent relationships beyond explicit labels. Specifically, the model distills audio-visual distribution-based knowledge from annotated labels in a subset of each batch. This self-distilled knowledge is used t
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