Summary of Modalchorus: Visual Probing and Alignment Of Multi-modal Embeddings Via Modal Fusion Map, by Yilin Ye et al.
ModalChorus: Visual Probing and Alignment of Multi-modal Embeddings via Modal Fusion Map
by Yilin Ye, Shishi Xiao, Xingchen Zeng, Wei Zeng
First submitted to arxiv on: 17 Jul 2024
Categories
- Main: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Human-Computer Interaction (cs.HC); Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
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| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper presents a solution to improve the performance of vision-language models, which rely on multi-modal embeddings like CLIP. The current approach is vulnerable to subtle misalignments, leading to decreased model accuracy and generalization. To address this issue, the authors propose ModalChorus, an interactive system for probing and aligning multi-modal embeddings. This two-stage process involves embedding probing using a novel method called Modal Fusion Map (MFM) and embedding alignment that allows users to interactively adjust intentions for point-set and set-set alignments. The paper demonstrates the advantages of MFM over existing methods like t-SNE, MDS, data context map, and others. Case studies show that ModalChorus can facilitate efficient discovery and re-alignment of misalignment in scenarios such as zero-shot classification, cross-modal retrieval, and generation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper tries to fix a problem with how we combine images and words into one model. Right now, these models are not very good at understanding what’s going on when the pictures and words don’t match up. The authors created something called ModalChorus that helps fix this by letting people adjust how the images and words fit together. They also came up with a new way to look at all the information, which they call Modal Fusion Map (MFM). This new method is better than some other ways of doing things, like t-SNE or MDS. The paper shows that ModalChorus can be really helpful in making sure the images and words match up correctly. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Alignment * Classification * Embedding * Generalization * Multi modal * Zero shot
