arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 21
The Many Senses of Visual Similarity: A Text-Prompted Image Perceptual Metric
arXiv:2607. 18237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human visual similarity judgments are context-dependent.
CLAY: Conditional Visual Similarity Modulation in Vision-Language Embedding Space
arXiv:2604. 11539v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Human perception of visual similarity is inherently adaptive and subjective, depending on the users' interests and focus.
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arXiv AI
Jun 8
TEVI: Text-Conditioned Editing of Visual Representations via Sparse Autoencoders for Improved Vision-Language Alignment
arXiv:2606. 07451v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models such as CLIP are highly useful for diverse tasks due to their shared image-text embedding space.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 28
Similarity Is Not Logic: Factored Inference for Dual-Encoder Vision-Language Models
arXiv:2607. 23052v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Dual-encoder vision-language models (VLMs) expose a similarity interface that enables zero-shot retrieval but fails compositional constraints: queries like "umbrella and no person" retrieve images containing both, even when concept detection is reliable.
arXiv AI
Jun 30
Multimodal Representation Alignment for Cross-modal Information Retrieval
arXiv:2506. 08774v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Different machine learning models can represent the same underlying concept in different ways.
arXiv AI
Jun 16
Beyond Scalar Distances: Semantic Attribute Gradients from Frozen MLLMs for Visual Embeddings
arXiv:2606. 15134v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision encoders for retrieval are typically trained with class-label supervision: each training pair reduces to a scalar that uniformly pushes the embedding apart or pulls it together, as if every visual attribute either differed or matched.
arXiv AI
Jul 28
Controlling Embedding Spaces with Text-Conditioned Transformations
arXiv:2607. 22919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal embedding spaces in models like CLIP enable powerful capabilities such as semantic similarity retrieval and cross-modal zero-shot classification.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2
Density-Aware Translation of Spurious Correlations in Zero-Shot VLMs
arXiv:2606. 01710v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language models (VLMs), such as CLIP, achieve powerful zero-shot classification.
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 5
Geo-Embed: Towards Unified Multimodal Embeddings for Urban Understanding
arXiv:2608. 03826v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Geospatial and urban applications increasingly require models to compare heterogeneous evidence across street-view imagery, remote-sensing observations, text descriptions, region proposals, and temporal change cues.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4
Geo-Embed: Towards Unified Multimodal Embeddings for Urban Understanding
Geospatial and urban applications increasingly require models to compare heterogeneous evidence across street-view imagery, remote-sensing observations, text descriptions, region proposals, and temporal change cues. However, existing multimodal embedding models and benchmarks are still largely designed and evaluated around general-purpose image-text matching, leaving unclear whether unified embedding space can support heterogeneous geospatial tasks involving spatial relationships, fine-grained semantics, and temporal changes.
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 11
When Vision Becomes Text: Visual Token Pruning via Cross-Modal Residual Guidance in VLMs
Abundant visual information strengthens vision-language model (VLM) perception, yet massive visual tokens raise inference costs. Existing visual token pruning methods rely on similarity-based guidance, which exploits pairwise text-vision and vision-vision token correlations for compression.
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 30
Same Concept, Different Directions: Cross-Modal Feature Heterogeneity in Sparse Autoencoders
arXiv:2606. 29888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models map images and text into a joint embedding space.
arXiv AI
Jul 20
Debiasing Text-to-Image Evaluation via Implicit Cultural Alignment Reward Modeling
arXiv:2607. 15740v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Text-to-Image (T2I) systems rapidly advance, evaluating the cultural authenticity of synthesized content has become increasingly important for fair and trustworthy generative AI.