Summary of Gramian Multimodal Representation Learning and Alignment, by Giordano Cicchetti et al.
Gramian Multimodal Representation Learning and Alignment
by Giordano Cicchetti, Eleonora Grassucci, Luigi Sigillo, Danilo Comminiello
First submitted to arxiv on: 16 Dec 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Machine Learning (cs.LG)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a novel approach to multimodal learning that addresses the limitations of existing methods. The authors propose a new metric, Gramian Representation Alignment Measure (GRAM), which learns and aligns multiple modalities in a higher-dimensional space, ensuring a joint understanding of multiple modalities. GRAM replaces cosine similarity and can be used with any downstream method, providing more meaningful alignment compared to previous measures. The paper demonstrates state-of-the-art performance on tasks such as video-audio-text retrieval and audio-video classification. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This research helps us understand how our brains combine different senses like sight, sound, and language to make sense of the world. Right now, computers have a hard time doing this too, especially when dealing with lots of different types of information at once. The authors came up with a new way to match these different types of information together in a more intelligent way. This can help computers understand video and audio files better, or even help us retrieve specific pieces of information from massive databases. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Alignment » Classification » Cosine similarity
