解决多模态模型的语言先验冲突问题,提升视觉与语言对齐效果。
Decoupled Proxy Alignment: Mitigating Language Prior Conflict for Multimodal Alignment in MLLM
- 用代理语言模型分离视觉-语言对齐过程,避免语言风格干扰。
- 根据视觉相关性动态调整损失,强化关键信息的优化信号。
- 适用于各类模型与数据集,通用性强,适合多模态训练场景。
多模态大语言模型(MLLM)因其融合视觉与语言的能力备受关注。当前研究主要通过高质量数据集、新架构和优化训练策略提升性能,但本文揭示了一个被忽视的问题:语言先验冲突——大语言模型(LLM)的固有语言先验与其训练数据中的语言先验不一致,导致视觉-语言对齐不佳,模型易受训练样本语言风格影响。为此,我们提出一种新训练方法:解耦代理对齐(DPA)。DPA包含两项创新:(1) 在预训练中引入代理LLM,将视觉-语言对齐过程与语言先验干扰解耦;(2) 基于视觉相关性动态调整损失,增强对视觉相关词元的优化信号。大量实验表明,DPA显著缓解语言先验冲突,在多种数据集、模型家族和规模下均实现更优对齐表现。该方法不仅提升了训练效率,还展现出卓越泛化能力,是视觉-语言对齐的稳健方案。代码已开源:https://github.com/fnlp-vision/DPA。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have gained significant attention due to their impressive ability to integrate vision and language modalities. Recent advancements in MLLMs have primarily focused on improving performance through high-quality datasets, novel architectures, and optimized training strategies. However, in this paper, we identify a previously overlooked issue, language prior conflict, a mismatch between the inherent language priors of large language models (LLMs) and the language priors in training datasets. This conflict leads to suboptimal vision-language alignment, as MLLMs are prone to adapting to the language style of training samples. To address this issue, we propose a novel training method called Decoupled Proxy Alignment (DPA). DPA introduces two key innovations: (1) the use of a proxy LLM during pretraining to decouple the vision-language alignment process from language prior interference, and (2) dynamic loss adjustment based on visual relevance to strengthen optimization signals for visually relevant tokens. Extensive experiments demonstrate that DPA significantly mitigates the language prior conflict, achieving superior alignment performance across diverse datasets, model families, and scales. Our method not only improves the effectiveness of MLLM training but also shows exceptional generalization capabilities, making it a robust approach for vision-language alignment. Our code is available at https://github.com/fnlp-vision/DPA.
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