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Autori principali: Han, Xiaoqi, Li, Ru, Yi, Ran, Tan, Hongye, Liang, Zhuomin, Gutiérrez-Basulto, Víctor, Pan, Jeff Z.
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13243
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author Han, Xiaoqi
Li, Ru
Yi, Ran
Tan, Hongye
Liang, Zhuomin
Gutiérrez-Basulto, Víctor
Pan, Jeff Z.
author_facet Han, Xiaoqi
Li, Ru
Yi, Ran
Tan, Hongye
Liang, Zhuomin
Gutiérrez-Basulto, Víctor
Pan, Jeff Z.
contents Multimodal Model Editing (MMED) aims to correct erroneous knowledge in multimodal models. Existing evaluation methods, adapted from textual model editing, overstate success by relying on low-similarity or random inputs, obscure overfitting. We propose a comprehensive locality evaluation framework, covering three key dimensions: random-image locality, no-image locality, and consistent-image locality, operationalized through seven distinct data types, enabling a detailed and structured analysis of multimodal edits. We introduce De-VQA, a dynamic evaluation for visual question answering, uncovering a phenomenon we term transient blindness, overfitting to edit-similar text while ignoring visuals. Token analysis shows edits disproportionately affect textual tokens. We propose locality-aware adversarial losses to balance cross-modal representations. Empirical results demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms existing baselines, reducing transient blindness and improving locality by 17% on average.
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spellingShingle Uncovering and Mitigating Transient Blindness in Multimodal Model Editing
Han, Xiaoqi
Li, Ru
Yi, Ran
Tan, Hongye
Liang, Zhuomin
Gutiérrez-Basulto, Víctor
Pan, Jeff Z.
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Multimodal Model Editing (MMED) aims to correct erroneous knowledge in multimodal models. Existing evaluation methods, adapted from textual model editing, overstate success by relying on low-similarity or random inputs, obscure overfitting. We propose a comprehensive locality evaluation framework, covering three key dimensions: random-image locality, no-image locality, and consistent-image locality, operationalized through seven distinct data types, enabling a detailed and structured analysis of multimodal edits. We introduce De-VQA, a dynamic evaluation for visual question answering, uncovering a phenomenon we term transient blindness, overfitting to edit-similar text while ignoring visuals. Token analysis shows edits disproportionately affect textual tokens. We propose locality-aware adversarial losses to balance cross-modal representations. Empirical results demonstrate that our approach consistently outperforms existing baselines, reducing transient blindness and improving locality by 17% on average.
title Uncovering and Mitigating Transient Blindness in Multimodal Model Editing
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.13243