Large Language Model Informed Patent Image Retrieval

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Autores principales: Lo, Hao-Cheng, Chu, Jung-Mei, Hsiang, Jieh, Cho, Chun-Chieh
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author Lo, Hao-Cheng
Chu, Jung-Mei
Hsiang, Jieh
Cho, Chun-Chieh
author_facet Lo, Hao-Cheng
Chu, Jung-Mei
Hsiang, Jieh
Cho, Chun-Chieh
contents In patent prosecution, image-based retrieval systems for identifying similarities between current patent images and prior art are pivotal to ensure the novelty and non-obviousness of patent applications. Despite their growing popularity in recent years, existing attempts, while effective at recognizing images within the same patent, fail to deliver practical value due to their limited generalizability in retrieving relevant prior art. Moreover, this task inherently involves the challenges posed by the abstract visual features of patent images, the skewed distribution of image classifications, and the semantic information of image descriptions. Therefore, we propose a language-informed, distribution-aware multimodal approach to patent image feature learning, which enriches the semantic understanding of patent image by integrating Large Language Models and improves the performance of underrepresented classes with our proposed distribution-aware contrastive losses. Extensive experiments on DeepPatent2 dataset show that our proposed method achieves state-of-the-art or comparable performance in image-based patent retrieval with mAP +53.3%, Recall@10 +41.8%, and MRR@10 +51.9%. Furthermore, through an in-depth user analysis, we explore our model in aiding patent professionals in their image retrieval efforts, highlighting the model's real-world applicability and effectiveness.
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spellingShingle Large Language Model Informed Patent Image Retrieval
Lo, Hao-Cheng
Chu, Jung-Mei
Hsiang, Jieh
Cho, Chun-Chieh
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
In patent prosecution, image-based retrieval systems for identifying similarities between current patent images and prior art are pivotal to ensure the novelty and non-obviousness of patent applications. Despite their growing popularity in recent years, existing attempts, while effective at recognizing images within the same patent, fail to deliver practical value due to their limited generalizability in retrieving relevant prior art. Moreover, this task inherently involves the challenges posed by the abstract visual features of patent images, the skewed distribution of image classifications, and the semantic information of image descriptions. Therefore, we propose a language-informed, distribution-aware multimodal approach to patent image feature learning, which enriches the semantic understanding of patent image by integrating Large Language Models and improves the performance of underrepresented classes with our proposed distribution-aware contrastive losses. Extensive experiments on DeepPatent2 dataset show that our proposed method achieves state-of-the-art or comparable performance in image-based patent retrieval with mAP +53.3%, Recall@10 +41.8%, and MRR@10 +51.9%. Furthermore, through an in-depth user analysis, we explore our model in aiding patent professionals in their image retrieval efforts, highlighting the model's real-world applicability and effectiveness.
title Large Language Model Informed Patent Image Retrieval
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Computation and Language
Information Retrieval
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.19360