arXiv AI
6d ago

Improving Visual Sensitivity of LLMs on Multimodal Machine Translation with Metric-based Loss Weighting

The paper proposes Metric-based Loss Weighting to enhance visual grounding in multimodal machine translation. By increasing loss for tokens that benefit from image context—identified via the Point-wise Cross-mutual Information (PCXMI) metric and its Congruency-based variant—the method improves translation accuracy on the CoMMuTE dataset by over 7 percentage points. Experiments fine-tune three pretrained multimodal LLMs across three language directions, showing superior performance compared to standard fine-tuning while preserving overall translation quality.

By Pawe{\l} M\k{a}ka, Piotr Andruszkiewicz, Yusuf Can Semerci, Jan Scholtes, Gerasimos Spanakis