Improving Multimodal Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings with Object-Phrase Alignment
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| author | Zhao, Kaiyan Miao, Zhongtao Tsuruoka, Yoshimasa |
| author_facet | Zhao, Kaiyan Miao, Zhongtao Tsuruoka, Yoshimasa |
| contents | Multimodal sentence embedding models typically leverage image-caption pairs in addition to textual data during training. However, such pairs often contain noise, including redundant or irrelevant information on either the image or caption side. To mitigate this issue, we propose MCSEO, a method that enhances multimodal sentence embeddings by incorporating fine-grained object-phrase alignment alongside traditional image-caption alignment. Specifically, MCSEO utilizes existing segmentation and object detection models to extract accurate object-phrase pairs, which are then used to optimize a contrastive learning objective tailored to object-phrase correspondence. Experimental results on semantic textual similarity (STS) tasks across different backbone models demonstrate that MCSEO consistently outperforms strong baselines, highlighting the significance of precise object-phrase alignment in multimodal representation learning. |
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| spellingShingle | Improving Multimodal Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings with Object-Phrase Alignment Zhao, Kaiyan Miao, Zhongtao Tsuruoka, Yoshimasa Computation and Language Multimodal sentence embedding models typically leverage image-caption pairs in addition to textual data during training. However, such pairs often contain noise, including redundant or irrelevant information on either the image or caption side. To mitigate this issue, we propose MCSEO, a method that enhances multimodal sentence embeddings by incorporating fine-grained object-phrase alignment alongside traditional image-caption alignment. Specifically, MCSEO utilizes existing segmentation and object detection models to extract accurate object-phrase pairs, which are then used to optimize a contrastive learning objective tailored to object-phrase correspondence. Experimental results on semantic textual similarity (STS) tasks across different backbone models demonstrate that MCSEO consistently outperforms strong baselines, highlighting the significance of precise object-phrase alignment in multimodal representation learning. |
| title | Improving Multimodal Contrastive Learning of Sentence Embeddings with Object-Phrase Alignment |
| topic | Computation and Language |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.00332 |