同时优化视觉与文本提示,提升视觉语言模型的因果推理能力。
BiPrompt: Bilateral Prompt Optimization for Visual and Textual Debiasing in Vision-Language Models
- 双模态提示优化:视觉侧用注意力引导擦除,文本侧用可学习归一化
- 在真实与合成数据集上,平均和最差组准确率均优于已有方法
- 无需重训练或领域标注,适合部署在资源受限场景
视觉语言基础模型(如CLIP)虽具备出色的零样本泛化能力,但仍易受视觉与文本模态间虚假相关性的影响。现有去偏方法通常仅处理单一模态,导致鲁棒性不足且在分布迁移下表现不稳定。本文提出双模态提示优化框架(BiPrompt),在测试时同步缓解两个模态中的非因果特征依赖。视觉侧采用结构化注意力引导擦除,抑制背景激活,并强制因果与虚假区域间的预测一致性;文本侧引入平衡提示归一化,一种可学习的重新中心机制,将类别嵌入对齐至各向同性语义空间。二者共同最小化虚假线索与预测之间的条件互信息,推动模型实现因果、域不变推理,无需重训练或领域监督。在真实世界与合成偏见基准上的广泛评估显示,该方法在平均准确率和最差组准确率上均显著优于现有测试时去偏方法,为可信且因果驱动的视觉语言适应提供了轻量高效路径。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Vision language foundation models such as CLIP exhibit impressive zero-shot generalization yet remain vulnerable to spurious correlations across visual and textual modalities. Existing debiasing approaches often address a single modality either visual or textual leading to partial robustness and unstable adaptation under distribution shifts. We propose a bilateral prompt optimization framework (BiPrompt) that simultaneously mitigates non-causal feature reliance in both modalities during test-time adaptation. On the visual side, it employs structured attention-guided erasure to suppress background activations and enforce orthogonal prediction consistency between causal and spurious regions. On the textual side, it introduces balanced prompt normalization, a learnable re-centering mechanism that aligns class embeddings toward an isotropic semantic space. Together, these modules jointly minimize conditional mutual information between spurious cues and predictions, steering the model toward causal, domain invariant reasoning without retraining or domain supervision. Extensive evaluations on real-world and synthetic bias benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements in both average and worst-group accuracies over prior test-time debiasing methods, establishing a lightweight yet effective path toward trustworthy and causally grounded vision-language adaptation.
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