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Recently, contrastive learning approaches (e.g., CLIP (Radford et al., 2021)) have received huge success in multimodal learning, where the model tries to minimize the distance between the representations of different views (e.g., image and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-10 Yunwei Ren , Yuanzhi Li

Context modeling plays a significant role in building multi-turn dialogue systems. In order to make full use of context information, systems can use Incomplete Utterance Rewriting(IUR) methods to simplify the multi-turn dialogue into…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-23 Zhihao Wang , Tangjian Duan , Zihao Wang , Minghui Yang , Zujie Wen , Yongliang Wang

Multimodal models excel in English, supported by abundant image-text and audio-text data, but performance drops sharply for other languages due to limited multilingual multimodal resources. Existing solutions rely on machine translation,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Piyush Singh Pasi

Multilingual neural machine translation (MNMT) aims to build a unified model for many language directions. Existing monolithic models for MNMT encounter two challenges: parameter interference among languages and inefficient inference for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Fei Yuan , Yinquan Lu , WenHao Zhu , Lingpeng Kong , Lei Li , Yu Qiao , Jingjing Xu

The use of machine learning methods in high energy physics typically relies on large volumes of precise simulation for training. As machine learning models become more complex they can become increasingly sensitive to differences between…

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Leveraging Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has become pivotal for advancing Universal Multimodal Embeddings (UME) in addressing diverse cross-modal tasks. Recent studies demonstrate that incorporating generative Chain-of-Thought…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Haonan Jiang , Yuji Wang , Yongjie Zhu , Xin Lu , Wenyu Qin , Meng Wang , Pengfei Wan , Yansong Tang

In this work, we present Multi-Level Contrastive Learning for Dense Prediction Task (MCL), an efficient self-supervised method for learning region-level feature representation for dense prediction tasks. Our method is motivated by the three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-05 Qiushan Guo , Yizhou Yu , Yi Jiang , Jiannan Wu , Zehuan Yuan , Ping Luo

Multimodal models are becoming increasingly effective, in part due to unified components, such as the Transformer architecture. However, multimodal models still often consist of many task- and modality-specific pieces and training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Michael Tschannen , Basil Mustafa , Neil Houlsby

Recent unsupervised contrastive representation learning follows a Single Instance Multi-view (SIM) paradigm where positive pairs are usually constructed with intra-image data augmentation. In this paper, we propose an effective approach…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Xiangxiang Chu , Xiaohang Zhan , Bo Zhang

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have been shown to efficiently integrate natural language with visual information to handle multi-modal tasks. However, MLLMs still face a fundamental limitation of hallucinations, where they tend…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chaoya Jiang , Haiyang Xu , Mengfan Dong , Jiaxing Chen , Wei Ye , Ming Yan , Qinghao Ye , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Shikun Zhang

For multimodal tasks, a good feature extraction network should extract information as much as possible and ensure that the extracted feature embedding and other modal feature embedding have an excellent mutual understanding. The latter is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jianning Wu , Zhuqing Jiang , Shiping Wen , Aidong Men , Haiying Wang

Image-Text Retrieval (ITR) is challenging in bridging visual and lingual modalities. Contrastive learning has been adopted by most prior arts. Except for limited amount of negative image-text pairs, the capability of constrastive learning…

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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable success in comprehension tasks such as visual description and visual question answering. However, their direct application to embedding-based tasks like retrieval remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Lihao Liu , Yan Wang , Biao Yang , Da Li , Jiangxia Cao , Yuxiao Luo , Xiang Chen , Xiangyu Wu , Wei Yuan , Fan Yang , Guiguang Ding , Tingting Gao , Guorui Zhou

Despite the success of vision-language models in various generative tasks, obtaining high-quality semantic representations for products and user intents is still challenging due to the inability of off-the-shelf models to capture nuanced…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Omkar Gurjar , Kin Sum Liu , Praveen Kolli , Utsaw Kumar , Mandar Rahurkar

Recently, the cross-modal pre-training task has been a hotspot because of its wide application in various down-streaming researches including retrieval, captioning, question answering and so on. However, exiting methods adopt a one-stream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-11 Keyu Wen , Zhenshan Tan , Qingrong Cheng , Cheng Chen , Xiaodong Gu

We propose a unified representation learning framework to address the Cross Model Compatibility (CMC) problem in the context of visual search applications. Cross compatibility between different embedding models enables the visual search…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-12 Chien-Yi Wang , Ya-Liang Chang , Shang-Ta Yang , Dong Chen , Shang-Hong Lai

Time series forecasting traditionally relies on unimodal numerical inputs, which often struggle to capture high-level semantic patterns due to their dense and unstructured nature. While recent approaches have explored representing time…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-02 Sixun Dong , Wei Fan , Teresa Wu , Yanjie Fu

Self-supervised pre-training techniques have achieved remarkable progress in Document AI. Most multimodal pre-trained models use a masked language modeling objective to learn bidirectional representations on the text modality, but they…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-20 Yupan Huang , Tengchao Lv , Lei Cui , Yutong Lu , Furu Wei

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced rapidly, yet heterogeneity in architecture, alignment strategies, and efficiency means that no single model is uniformly superior across tasks. In practical deployments, workloads span…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Haoxuan Ma , Guannan Lai , Han-Jia Ye

Cross-modal retrieval is the task of retrieving samples of a given modality by using queries of a different one. Due to the wide range of practical applications, the problem has been mainly focused on the vision and language case, e.g. text…

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