Cross-Modal Mapping: Mitigating the Modality Gap for Few-Shot Image Classification

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.20110v3
• Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2025 15:07:11 GMT
• Title: Cross-Modal Mapping: Mitigating the Modality Gap for Few-Shot Image Classification
• Authors: Xi Yang, Pai Peng, Wulin Xie, Xiaohuan Lu, Jie Wen,
• Abstract summary: We propose a novel Cross-Modal Mapping (CMM) method for few-shot image classification.<n>CMM aligns image features with the text feature space through linear transformation.<n>It improves the average Top-1 accuracy by 1.06% on 11 benchmark datasets.
• Score: 13.238769012534922
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Few-shot image classification remains a critical challenge in the field of computer vision, particularly in data-scarce environments. Existing methods typically rely on pre-trained visual-language models, such as CLIP. However, due to the modality gap, which is the inconsistent distribution of image and text features in the joint embedding space, directly using these features as class prototypes often leads to suboptimal performance. To address this issue, we propose a novel Cross-Modal Mapping (CMM) method. This method globally aligns image features with the text feature space through linear transformation and optimizes their local spatial relationships using triplet loss, thereby significantly enhancing cross-modal consistency. Experimental results show that compared to other methods, CMM simplifies the training process and demonstrates higher efficiency. Furthermore, CMM improves the average Top-1 accuracy by 1.06% on 11 benchmark datasets compared to methods that partially fine-tune the backbone, and it performs excellently on 4 distribution shift datasets. Notably, CMM effectively mitigates the modality gap in pre-trained models, enabling text features to serve as effective class prototypes for image features, thus providing an efficient and highly generalizable solution for few-shot learning.

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