Assessing and Learning Alignment of Unimodal Vision and Language Models

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Main Authors:	Zhang, Le, Yang, Qian, Agrawal, Aishwarya
Format:	Preprint
Published:	2024
Subjects:	Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Online Access:	Acceder al recurso
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