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Multimodal representations that enable cross-modal retrieval are widely used. However, these often lack interpretability making it difficult to explain the retrieved results. Solutions such as learning sparse disentangled representations…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Prachi J , Sumit Bhatia , Srikanta Bedathur

Deep language models learning a hierarchical representation proved to be a powerful tool for natural language processing, text mining and information retrieval. However, representations that perform well for retrieval must capture semantic…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-05-24 Tolgahan Cakaloglu , Xiaowei Xu

Extracting context from visual representations is of utmost importance in the advancement of Computer Science. Representation of such a format in Natural Language has a huge variety of applications such as helping the visually impaired etc.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Madhavan Seshadri , Malavika Srikanth , Mikhail Belov

While an image is worth more than a thousand words, only a few provide crucial information for a given task and thus should be focused on. In light of this, ideal text-to-image (T2I) retrievers should prioritize specific visual attributes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Siting Li , Xiang Gao , Simon Shaolei Du

Recent multi-modal contrastive learning models have demonstrated the ability to learn an embedding space suitable for building strong vision classifiers, by leveraging the rich information in large-scale image-caption datasets. Our work…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Yuhui Zhang , Jeff Z. HaoChen , Shih-Cheng Huang , Kuan-Chieh Wang , James Zou , Serena Yeung

In this paper we describe a novel framework and algorithms for discovering image patch patterns from a large corpus of weakly supervised image-caption pairs generated from news events. Current pattern mining techniques attempt to find…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-01-06 Hongzhi Li , Joseph G. Ellis , Shih-Fu Chang

Multimodal sentence embedding models typically leverage image-caption pairs in addition to textual data during training. However, such pairs often contain noise, including redundant or irrelevant information on either the image or caption…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Kaiyan Zhao , Zhongtao Miao , Yoshimasa Tsuruoka

Multimodal VAEs seek to model the joint distribution over heterogeneous data (e.g.\ vision, language), whilst also capturing a shared representation across such modalities. Prior work has typically combined information from the modalities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Tom Joy , Yuge Shi , Philip H. S. Torr , Tom Rainforth , Sebastian M. Schmon , N. Siddharth

Multi-modal entity alignment (MMEA) aims to identify equivalent entities between two multi-modal knowledge graphs for integration. Unfortunately, prior arts have attempted to improve the interaction and fusion of multi-modal information,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Luyao Wang , Pengnian Qi , Xigang Bao , Chunlai Zhou , Biao Qin

Conventional word embeddings represent words with fixed vectors, which are usually trained based on co-occurrence patterns among words. In doing so, however, the power of such representations is limited, where the same word might be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Hongming Zhang , Jiaxin Bai , Yan Song , Kun Xu , Changlong Yu , Yangqiu Song , Wilfred Ng , Dong Yu

Image-text matching plays a central role in bridging vision and language. Most existing approaches only rely on the image-text instance pair to learn their representations, thereby exploiting their matching relationships and making the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-02-02 Haoran Wang , Ying Zhang , Zhong Ji , Yanwei Pang , Lin Ma

This report presents our submission to the MS COCO Captioning Challenge 2015. The method uses Convolutional Neural Network activations as an embedding to find semantically similar images. From these images, the most typical caption is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2015-06-15 Martin Kolář , Michal Hradiš , Pavel Zemčík

Joint modeling of language and vision has been drawing increasing interest. A multimodal data representation allowing for bidirectional retrieval of images by sentences and vice versa is a key aspect. In this paper we present three…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-12-07 Youssef Mroueh , Etienne Marcheret , Vaibhava Goel

Image captioning models aim at connecting Vision and Language by providing natural language descriptions of input images. In the past few years, the task has been tackled by learning parametric models and proposing visual feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Few-shot learning aims to identify novel categories from only a handful of labeled samples, where prototypes estimated from scarce data are often biased and generalize poorly. Semantic-based methods alleviate this by introducing coarse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Jiaying Wu , Can Gao , Jinglu Hu , Hui Li , Xiaofeng Cao , Jingcai Guo

Word embeddings such as ELMo have recently been shown to model word semantics with greater efficacy through contextualized learning on large-scale language corpora, resulting in significant improvement in state of the art across many…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-11 Shao-Yen Tseng , Panayiotis Georgiou , Shrikanth Narayanan

Multimodal retrieval, which seeks to retrieve relevant content across modalities such as text or image, supports applications from AI search to contents production. Despite the success of separate-encoder approaches like CLIP align…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Qiyu Wu , Shuyang Cui , Satoshi Hayakawa , Wei-Yao Wang , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji

Visual imagery does not consist of solitary objects, but instead reflects the composition of a multitude of fluid concepts. While there have been great advances in visual representation learning, such advances have focused on building…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-07 Austin Stone , Hagen Soltau , Robert Geirhos , Xi Yi , Ye Xia , Bingyi Cao , Kaifeng Chen , Abhijit Ogale , Jonathon Shlens

Embedding techniques have become essential components of large databases in the deep learning era. By encoding discrete entities, such as words, items, or graph nodes, into continuous vector spaces, embeddings facilitate more efficient…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Shiwei Li , Zhuoqi Hu , Xing Tang , Haozhao Wang , Shijie Xu , Weihong Luo , Yuhua Li , Xiuqiang He , Ruixuan Li

Computational imaging methods that can exploit multiple modalities have the potential to enhance the capabilities of traditional sensing systems. In this paper, we propose a new method that reconstructs multimodal images from their linear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-15 Kevin Degraux , Ulugbek S. Kamilov , Petros T. Boufounos , Dehong Liu