用真实框指导模型生成更准的坐标,让视觉定位更精准。
IoU-PD: IoU-Aware Privileged Distillation for Visual Grounding with Multimodal Large Language Models

- 训练时用真实框作为额外指导信号,提升坐标生成质量。
- 在多个基准上优于现有方法,区域匹配率显著提升。
- 推理无需额外模块,适合部署在真实场景中。
多模态大语言模型进行视觉定位通常采用自回归坐标生成方式,即根据图像和指代表达生成边界框坐标。但训练时优化的是坐标字符串的词元级似然,而评估依赖几何重叠度,存在训练与评估不一致的问题。本文提出IoU-PD,一种基于交并比(IoU)感知的特权蒸馏方法。该方法不仅将真实框作为坐标目标,还将其作为训练时的特权引导。学生模型接收原始图像和提示,教师模型接收带框标记的图像和增强提示。学生通过监督微调和反映几何重要性与教师可靠性权重的特权蒸馏损失联合训练。推理时无需框叠加、特权提示、教师分支或额外预测模块。在标准指代表达定位基准上的实验表明,该方法持续优于强基线,证明真实框可提供超越坐标标签的有用引导。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Visual grounding with multimodal large language models is commonly formulated as autoregressive coordinate generation, where a model outputs bounding-box coordinates as text given an image and a referring-expression prompt. While this interface is simple and compatible with instruction following, it introduces a mismatch between training and evaluation: training optimizes token-level likelihood over coordinate strings, whereas grounding quality is measured by geometric overlap. We propose IoU-PD, an IoU-aware privileged distillation method for coordinate-generating multimodal large language models. IoU-PD uses ground-truth boxes not only as coordinate targets, but also as privileged training-time guidance. During training, the student receives the original image and prompt, while a frozen teacher receives a box-marked image and an augmented prompt that indicates the marked region. The student is trained with a supervised fine-tuning anchor and a privileged distillation loss whose token weights reflect both geometric importance and teacher reliability. At inference time, IoU-PD requires no box overlay, privileged hint, teacher branch, or additional prediction module. Experiments on standard referring-expression grounding benchmarks show consistent region-level improvements over strong coordinate-generating baselines, demonstrating that ground-truth boxes can provide useful privileged guidance beyond serving as coordinate labels. Project page: https://xyzzzh.github.io/IoU-PD/
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