用最优传输建模视觉与语言概念的动态匹配，提升可解释性。
Bridging Vision and Language Concepts through Optimal Transport Semantic Flow
- 通过逆最优传输学习跨模态语义代价，实现动态对齐
- 在多个数据集上准确率提升2.1%~3.8%，概念忠实度显著增强
- 适合追求可解释性与几何建模的多模态研究者
概念瓶颈模型（CBMs）通过人类可理解的概念进行预测，实现透明推理，但其效果依赖于视觉与文本表示的对齐程度。现有视觉-语言CBMs通常依赖预对齐编码器或全局余弦相似度，难以捕捉细粒度概念定位，也未能反映真实的语义几何结构。本文将概念对齐重新视为动态的跨模态传输过程，提出最优传输流概念瓶颈模型（OTF-CBM）。该模型首先通过逆最优传输学习数据驱动的语义代价以衡量跨模态距离，再基于非平衡最优传输实现视觉块与文本概念间的语义流匹配。通过速度驱动的概念激活机制，无需常微分方程积分即可捕捉可解释的几何关系。实验表明，OTF-CBM在分类准确率上相较基线提升2.1%~3.8%，且概念忠实度显著提高，为可解释的跨模态推理提供了新的几何与动态视角。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) promise transparent reasoning by predicting through human-interpretable concepts, yet their effectiveness fundamentally depends on how well visual and textual representations are aligned or matched. Existing vision-language CBMs often rely on pre-aligned encoders or global cosine similarity, which obscures fine-grained concept localization and fails to reflect true semantic geometry. In this work, we rethink concept alignment as a dynamic cross-modal transport process instead of static projection and propose the Optimal Transport Flow Concept Bottleneck Model (OTF-CBM). It first learns a data-driven semantic cost via Inverse Optimal Transport to measure cross-modal distances, and then performs unbalanced optimal-transport-based flow matching to model semantic transitions between visual patches and textual concepts. With velocity-based concept activation, OTF-CBM captures interpretable geometric relations without ODE integration. Experiments further show that OTF-CBM achieves superior classification accuracy and concept faithfulness, offering a new geometric and dynamical perspective for interpretable cross-modal reasoning.
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