arXiv:2511.14416cs.LG2025-11

解决跨模态检索中在线和多样的查询漂移问题,提升模型鲁棒性。

Toward Robust and Harmonious Adaptation for Cross-modal Retrieval

  • 提出在线适应机制,通过查询预测优化损失函数,保持通用语义空间
  • 设计梯度解耦模块,防止模型遗忘通用知识,应对多样化查询需求
  • 在20个基准上验证,显著缓解查询漂移带来的性能下降

近年来,通用到定制化范式已成为跨模态检索(CMR)的主流方法,用于缓解源域与目标域之间的分布偏移。然而,现有方法通常假设可获取全部目标域数据,这在真实场景中难以满足,导致不可避免地出现查询漂移(QS)问题。具体而言,查询漂移具有两个特征:1)在线漂移——实际查询以在线方式持续到达,无法提前获取完整查询集;2)多样漂移——即使完成领域定制,模型仍难以满足不同用户或场景的多样化查询需求。本文观察到,查询漂移不仅破坏源模型继承的结构化公共空间,还会导致模型遗忘对CMR至关重要的通用知识。为此,我们提出一种新方法:针对查询漂移的稳健自适应(REST)。为应对在线漂移,REST首先通过精炼检索结果生成查询预测,并基于预测设计抗查询漂移的目标函数,在线保持公共空间结构。针对更具挑战性的多样漂移,REST引入梯度解耦模块,灵活调控适应过程中的梯度传播,有效防止模型遗忘通用知识。在三个任务的20个基准上的大量实验表明,该方法能有效应对查询漂移,显著提升跨模态检索性能。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Recently, the general-to-customized paradigm has emerged as the dominant approach for Cross-Modal Retrieval (CMR), which reconciles the distribution shift problem between the source domain and the target domain. However, existing general-to-customized CMR methods typically assume that the entire target-domain data is available, which is easily violated in real-world scenarios and thus inevitably suffer from the query shift (QS) problem. Specifically, query shift embraces the following two characteristics and thus poses new challenges to CMR. i) Online Shift: real-world queries always arrive in an online manner, rendering it impractical to access the entire query set beforehand for customization approaches; ii) Diverse Shift: even with domain customization, the CMR models struggle to satisfy queries from diverse users or scenarios, leaving an urgent need to accommodate diverse queries. In this paper, we observe that QS would not only undermine the well-structured common space inherited from the source model, but also steer the model toward forgetting the indispensable general knowledge for CMR. Inspired by the observations, we propose a novel method for achieving online and harmonious adaptation against QS, dubbed Robust adaptation with quEry ShifT (REST). To deal with online shift, REST first refines the retrieval results to formulate the query predictions and accordingly designs a QS-robust objective function on these predictions to preserve the well-established common space in an online manner. As for tackling the more challenging diverse shift, REST employs a gradient decoupling module to dexterously manipulate the gradients during the adaptation process, thus preventing the CMR model from forgetting the general knowledge. Extensive experiments on 20 benchmarks across three CMR tasks verify the effectiveness of our method against QS.

跨模态检索在线学习查询漂移模型鲁棒性

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