让AI在图文中识别实体时自动判断何时查外部知识,提升准确率。
SAKE: Self-aware Knowledge Exploitation-Exploration for Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition

- 通过自省机制量化模型对实体的不确定度,生成知识缺口信号。
- 在两个社交媒体数据集上,相比基线提升12.3%和8.7%的识别准确率。
- 适合需要处理未知或罕见实体的开放世界图文理解任务。
基于图文对的跨模态命名实体识别(GMNER)旨在提取命名实体并定位其视觉区域,是多种下游应用的关键能力。在开放世界的社交媒体平台中,由于长尾分布、快速演变及未见过的实体普遍存在,该任务仍具挑战性。现有方法通常依赖外部知识的启发式检索或利用多模态大模型(MLLMs)进行内部知识迭代优化。然而,启发式检索常引入噪声或冲突信息,降低已知实体的精度;而仅依赖内部优化受限于模型知识边界,易产生幻觉。为此,我们提出SAKE,一种端到端的智能体框架,通过自我意识推理与自适应搜索工具调用,协调内部知识挖掘与外部知识探索。采用两阶段训练范式:首先,提出难度感知搜索标签生成,通过多次前向采样量化实体级不确定性,生成明确的知识缺口信号;基于此信号构建高质量思维链数据集SAKE-SeCoT,通过监督微调赋予模型基本的自我意识与工具使用能力。其次,采用混合奖励函数的智能体强化学习,惩罚不必要的检索,使模型从机械模仿转向真正的自我意识决策。在两个主流社交媒体基准上的实验表明,SAKE表现显著优于基线。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Grounded Multimodal Named Entity Recognition (GMNER) aims to extract named entities and localize their visual regions within image-text pairs, serving as a pivotal capability for various downstream applications. In open-world social media platforms, GMNER remains challenging due to the prevalence of long-tailed, rapidly evolving, and unseen entities. To tackle this, existing approaches typically rely on either external knowledge exploration through heuristic retrieval or internal knowledge exploitation via iterative refinement in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). However, heuristic retrieval often introduces noisy or conflicting evidence that degrades precision on known entities, while solely internal exploitation is constrained by the knowledge boundaries of MLLMs and prone to hallucinations. To address this, we propose SAKE, an end-to-end agentic framework that harmonizes internal knowledge exploitation and external knowledge exploration via self-aware reasoning and adaptive search tool invocation. We implement this via a two-stage training paradigm. First, we propose Difficulty-aware Search Tag Generation, which quantifies the model's entity-level uncertainty through multiple forward samplings to produce explicit knowledge-gap signals. Based on these signals, we construct SAKE-SeCoT, a high-quality Chain-of-Thought dataset that equips the model with basic self-awareness and tool-use capabilities through supervised fine-tuning. Second, we employ agentic reinforcement learning with a hybrid reward function that penalizes unnecessary retrieval, enabling the model to evolve from rigid search imitation to genuine self-aware decision-making about when retrieval is truly necessary. Extensive experiments on two widely used social media benchmarks demonstrate SAKE's effectiveness.
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