Connecting Multi-modal Contrastive Representations

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2305.14381v2
• Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2023 02:55:13 GMT
• Title: Connecting Multi-modal Contrastive Representations
• Authors: Zehan Wang, Yang Zhao, Xize Cheng, Haifeng Huang, Jiageng Liu, Li Tang, Linjun Li, Yongqi Wang, Aoxiong Yin, Ziang Zhang, Zhou Zhao
• Abstract summary: Multi-modal Contrastive Representation learning aims to encode different modalities into a semantically shared space. This paper proposes a novel training-efficient method for learning MCR without paired data called Connecting Multi-modal Contrastive Representations (C-MCR) C-MCR achieves audio-visual state-of-the-art performance on audio-image retrieval, audio-visual source localization, and counterfactual audio-image recognition tasks.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Multi-modal Contrastive Representation learning aims to encode different modalities into a semantically aligned shared space. This paradigm shows remarkable generalization ability on numerous downstream tasks across various modalities. However, the reliance on massive high-quality data pairs limits its further development on more modalities. This paper proposes a novel training-efficient method for learning MCR without paired data called Connecting Multi-modal Contrastive Representations (C-MCR). Specifically, given two existing MCRs pre-trained on (A, B) and (B, C) modality pairs, we project them to a new space and use the data from the overlapping modality B to aligning the two MCRs in the new space. Meanwhile, since the modality pairs (A, B) and (B, C) are already aligned within each MCR, the connection learned by overlapping modality can also be transferred to non-overlapping modality pair (A, C). To unleash the potential of C-MCR, we further introduce a semantic-enhanced inter- and intra-MCR connection method. We first enhance the semantic consistency and completion of embeddings across different modalities for more robust alignment. Then we utilize the inter-MCR alignment to establish the connection, and employ the intra-MCR alignment to better maintain the connection for inputs from non-overlapping modalities. To demonstrate the effectiveness of C-MCR, we connect CLIP and CLAP via texts to derive audio-visual representations, and integrate CLIP and ULIP via images for 3D-language representations. Remarkably, without using any paired data, C-MCR for audio-visual achieves state-of-the-art performance on audio-image retrieval, audio-visual source localization, and counterfactual audio-image recognition tasks. Furthermore, C-MCR for 3D-language also attains advanced zero-shot 3D point cloud classification accuracy on ModelNet40.

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