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| author | Leach, William He, Ru Ma, Sizhuo Jia, Yizhen Cao, Min Wang, Jian Cao, Rick |
| author_facet | Leach, William He, Ru Ma, Sizhuo Jia, Yizhen Cao, Min Wang, Jian Cao, Rick |
| contents | Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly attractive for multimodal quality assessment, but their default reliance on autoregressive text generation and dynamic visual processing is poorly matched to scalar regression under strict latency budgets. We present a bounded-compute adaptation of SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct for product-rating prediction in the LoViF 2026 Efficient VLM challenge. Motivated by recent multimodal engagement-prediction results showing that feature-based regression can outperform token-based score generation, we replace the language-modeling head with a lightweight two-layer MLP fed by pooled decoder states, and we enforce deterministic inputs through fixed 384x384 images and truncated metadata. Across controlled ablations, static global image processing slightly outperforms dynamic tiling, and scaling from 100K to 16M training examples substantially improves validation correlation. Under the official held-out evaluation, our 228M-parameter model achieves 0.39 PLCC and 0.40 CES, providing a strong and reproducible baseline for resource-constrained multimodal regression. |
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| spellingShingle | Bounded-Compute Multimodal Regression for Product-Rating Prediction Leach, William He, Ru Ma, Sizhuo Jia, Yizhen Cao, Min Wang, Jian Cao, Rick Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly attractive for multimodal quality assessment, but their default reliance on autoregressive text generation and dynamic visual processing is poorly matched to scalar regression under strict latency budgets. We present a bounded-compute adaptation of SmolVLM2-256M-Video-Instruct for product-rating prediction in the LoViF 2026 Efficient VLM challenge. Motivated by recent multimodal engagement-prediction results showing that feature-based regression can outperform token-based score generation, we replace the language-modeling head with a lightweight two-layer MLP fed by pooled decoder states, and we enforce deterministic inputs through fixed 384x384 images and truncated metadata. Across controlled ablations, static global image processing slightly outperforms dynamic tiling, and scaling from 100K to 16M training examples substantially improves validation correlation. Under the official held-out evaluation, our 228M-parameter model achieves 0.39 PLCC and 0.40 CES, providing a strong and reproducible baseline for resource-constrained multimodal regression. |
| title | Bounded-Compute Multimodal Regression for Product-Rating Prediction |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.27737 |