提出可变适配器,解决跨模态匹配标注不足问题
Variational Adapter for Cross-modal Similarity Representation

- 将跨模态匹配建模为变分推断,构建潜在相似度空间
- 在多个数据集上显著提升检索与泛化性能
- 适合需要鲁棒跨模态表征的视觉语言任务
视觉语言模型的核心在于统一表示空间中衡量跨模态相似性。然而,大多数图像-文本匹配或多类图像分类数据集缺乏细粒度的跨模态匹配标注,迫使连续相似度空间被迫压缩为二值分类边界,导致虚假负样本出现,严重损害跨模态任务的泛化能力。尽管先前研究尝试通过建模模态内模糊性来缓解此问题,但常忽略标注固有缺陷,造成不确定性分配不充分。为此,本文提出变分适配器(VACSR),将细粒度语义稀缺下的图像-文本匹配重构为变分推断问题。该方法构建跨模态相似性的潜在空间,并采用正则化技术防止对二值标注的过拟合。在图像-文本检索、领域泛化及基类到新类泛化等任务上的实验表明,该方法有效且具有强鲁棒性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
The core of vision-language models lies in measuring cross-modal similarity within a unified representation space. However, most image-text matching or multi-class image classification datasets lack fine-grained cross-modal matching annotations, forcing the continuous similarity space into binary classification boundaries. This compression induces false negative samples and significantly impairs the generalization performance of cross-modal tasks. While prior research has attempted to mitigate this by modeling intra-modal ambiguity, it often overlooks inherent annotation flaws, leading to suboptimal uncertainty allocation. To address these challenges, we propose a Variational Adapter for Cross-modal Similarity Representation (VACSR). This approach reformulates image-text matching with fine-grained semantic scarcity as a variational inference problem. It constructs a latent space for cross-modal similarity and uses regularization techniques to mitigate overfitting to binary annotations. Experiments on image-text retrieval, domain generalization, and base-to-novel generalization demonstrate the proposed method's effectiveness and robust generalization ability.
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