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The mismatch capacity characterizes the highest information rate of the channel under a prescribed decoding metric and serves as a critical performance indicator in numerous practical communication scenarios. Compared to the commonly used…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-29 Shitong Wu , Wenhao Ye , Xinwei Li , Lingyi Chen , Wenyi Zhang , Huihui Wu , Hao Wu

Multimodal Entity Linking (MEL) aims to link ambiguous mentions in multimodal contexts to entities in a multimodal knowledge graph. A pivotal challenge is to fully leverage multi-element correlations between mentions and entities to bridge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Zefeng Zhang , Jiawei Sheng , Chuang Zhang , Yunzhi Liang , Wenyuan Zhang , Siqi Wang , Tingwen Liu

The optimal transport (OT) problem is a classical optimization problem having the form of linear programming. Machine learning applications put forward new computational challenges in its solution. In particular, the OT problem defines a…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Nazarii Tupitsa , Pavel Dvurechensky , Darina Dvinskikh , Alexander Gasnikov

Network alignment, which aims to find node correspondence across different networks, is the cornerstone of various downstream multi-network and Web mining tasks. Most of the embedding-based methods indirectly model cross-network node…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Qi Yu , Zhichen Zeng , Yuchen Yan , Lei Ying , R. Srikant , Hanghang Tong

In this paper, we propose an Omni-perception Pre-Trainer (OPT) for cross-modal understanding and generation, by jointly modeling visual, text and audio resources. OPT is constructed in an encoder-decoder framework, including three…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-07-07 Jing Liu , Xinxin Zhu , Fei Liu , Longteng Guo , Zijia Zhao , Mingzhen Sun , Weining Wang , Hanqing Lu , Shiyu Zhou , Jiajun Zhang , Jinqiao Wang

Image-text matching has been a long-standing problem, which seeks to connect vision and language through semantic understanding. Due to the capability to manage large-scale raw data, unsupervised hashing-based approaches have gained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Fan Zhang , Xian-Sheng Hua , Chong Chen , Xiao Luo

Optimal transport is an important tool in machine learning, allowing to capture geometric properties of the data through a linear program on transport polytopes. We present a single-loop optimization algorithm for minimizing general convex…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Marin Ballu , Quentin Berthet

Comparing time series in a principled manner requires capturing both temporal alignment and distributional similarity of features. Optimal transport (OT) has recently emerged as a powerful tool for this task, but existing OT-based…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Thai P. D. Nguyen , Hong T. M. Chu , Kim-Chuan Toh

Contrastive language-image pre-training (CLIP) has demonstrated remarkable zero-shot classification ability, namely image classification using novel text labels. Existing works have attempted to enhance CLIP by fine-tuning on downstream…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-30 Seongha Eom , Namgyu Ho , Jaehoon Oh , Se-Young Yun

Existing techniques to solve exemplar-based image-to-image translation within deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) generally require a training phase to optimize the network parameters on domain-specific and task-specific benchmarks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Taewon Kang , Soohyun Kim , Sunwoo Kim , Seungryong Kim

Texts on the intelligent transportation scene include mass information. Fully harnessing this information is one of the critical drivers for advancing intelligent transportation. Unlike the general scene, detecting text in transportation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Xu Han , Junyu Gao , Chuang Yang , Yuan Yuan , Qi Wang

Despite the evolution of deep-learning-based visual-textual processing systems, precise multi-modal matching remains a challenging task. In this work, we tackle the task of cross-modal retrieval through image-sentence matching based on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-03 Nicola Messina , Giuseppe Amato , Andrea Esuli , Fabrizio Falchi , Claudio Gennaro , Stéphane Marchand-Maillet

Unbalanced optimal transport (UOT) extends optimal transport (OT) to take into account mass variations to compare distributions. This is crucial to make OT successful in ML applications, making it robust to data normalization and outliers.…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-01-04 Thibault Séjourné , François-Xavier Vialard , Gabriel Peyré

Document alignment is necessary for the hierarchical mining (Ba\~n\'on et al., 2020; Morishita et al., 2022), which aligns documents across source and target languages within the same web domain. Several high precision sentence…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Xiaotian Wang , Takehito Utsuro , Masaaki Nagata

We propose a new colour transfer method with Optimal Transport (OT) to transfer the colour of a sourceimage to match the colour of a target image of the same scene that may exhibit large motion changes betweenimages. By definition OT does…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-05-20 Hana Alghamdi , Rozenn Dahyot

In this paper, we study the problem of image-text matching. Inferring the latent semantic alignment between objects or other salient stuff (e.g. snow, sky, lawn) and the corresponding words in sentences allows to capture fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-24 Kuang-Huei Lee , Xi Chen , Gang Hua , Houdong Hu , Xiaodong He

Incidental scene text spotting is considered one of the most difficult and valuable challenges in the document analysis community. Most existing methods treat text detection and recognition as separate tasks. In this work, we propose a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-16 Xuebo Liu , Ding Liang , Shi Yan , Dagui Chen , Yu Qiao , Junjie Yan

One of the major challenges of machine translation (MT) is ambiguity, which can in some cases be resolved by accompanying context such as images. However, recent work in multimodal MT (MMT) has shown that obtaining improvements from images…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-29 Matthieu Futeral , Cordelia Schmid , Ivan Laptev , Benoît Sagot , Rachel Bawden

Optimal Transport (OT) has established itself as a robust framework for quantifying differences between distributions, with applications that span fields such as machine learning, data science, and computer vision. This paper offers a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Sina Moradi

Out-of-context (OOC) misinformation poses a significant challenge in multimodal fact-checking, where images are paired with texts that misrepresent their original context to support false narratives. Recent research in evidence-based OOC…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-19 Stefanos-Iordanis Papadopoulos , Christos Koutlis , Symeon Papadopoulos , Panagiotis C. Petrantonakis