arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 26

Separating Angular Alignment from Radial Ordering in Hyperbolic Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces AURORA, a hyperbolic vision‑language framework that separates angular alignment from radial ordering. Angular alignment captures semantic similarity while a novel Radial‑Angular Order Cone (RAOC) models hierarchical entailment based on parent‑child radial gaps. The approach includes norm regularization to prevent radial degeneration and is evaluated on large image‑text datasets, outperforming both Euclidean and hyperbolic baselines in zero‑shot classification, retrieval, hierarchical reasoning, and compositional understanding.

By Mingyang Gao, Yuwei Wu, Shiyu Luo, Wei Wu, Xiaomeng Fan, Qihao Lv, Haoyu Zhang, Rui Gao, Bingzhen Liu, Zhi Gao, Che Sun