Robustness of Fusion-based Multimodal Classifiers to Cross-Modal Content Dilutions

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2211.02646v1
• Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2022 17:58:02 GMT
• Title: Robustness of Fusion-based Multimodal Classifiers to Cross-Modal Content Dilutions
• Authors: Gaurav Verma, Vishwa Vinay, Ryan A. Rossi, Srijan Kumar
• Abstract summary: We develop a model that generates dilution text that maintains relevance and topical coherence with the image and existing text. We find that the performance of task-specific fusion-based multimodal classifiers drops by 23.3% and 22.5%, respectively, in the presence of dilutions generated by our model. Our work aims to highlight and encourage further research on the robustness of deep multimodal models to realistic variations.
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• Abstract: As multimodal learning finds applications in a wide variety of high-stakes societal tasks, investigating their robustness becomes important. Existing work has focused on understanding the robustness of vision-and-language models to imperceptible variations on benchmark tasks. In this work, we investigate the robustness of multimodal classifiers to cross-modal dilutions - a plausible variation. We develop a model that, given a multimodal (image + text) input, generates additional dilution text that (a) maintains relevance and topical coherence with the image and existing text, and (b) when added to the original text, leads to misclassification of the multimodal input. Via experiments on Crisis Humanitarianism and Sentiment Detection tasks, we find that the performance of task-specific fusion-based multimodal classifiers drops by 23.3% and 22.5%, respectively, in the presence of dilutions generated by our model. Metric-based comparisons with several baselines and human evaluations indicate that our dilutions show higher relevance and topical coherence, while simultaneously being more effective at demonstrating the brittleness of the multimodal classifiers. Our work aims to highlight and encourage further research on the robustness of deep multimodal models to realistic variations, especially in human-facing societal applications. The code and other resources are available at https://claws-lab.github.io/multimodal-robustness/.

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