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New methods enhance unsupervised cross-modal retrieval with limited data · 4 sources tracked

Researchers are developing new methods for unsupervised cross-modal retrieval, aiming to improve efficiency and reduce reliance on large, manually annotated datasets. Papers propose techniques like Attribute-Prompted Kernel Hashing (APKH) and Global-Neighborhood Alignment Hashing (GNAH) that leverage vision-language foundation models and limited paired data to construct compact, aligned Hamming spaces. Another approach, UniCA, introduces bi-directional cross-attention and a positive similarity loss for more robust multi-modal retrieval, demonstrating improvements on benchmarks like WebQA+. AI

IMPACT These research efforts aim to make cross-modal retrieval more accessible and efficient by reducing data requirements and improving alignment techniques.

RANK_REASON Multiple academic papers proposing new methods for cross-modal retrieval.

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Yap-Peng Tan ·

    Attribute-Prompted Kernel Hashing for Unsupervised Data-Efficient Cross-Modal Retrieval

    Unsupervised cross-modal hashing enables efficient retrieval of semantically related instances across different modalities without requiring manual semantic annotation. However, existing unsupervised methods rely heavily on large-scale image-text pairs. Collecting such data can b…

  2. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Fan Xu, Luis A. Leiva ·

    Multimodal Representation Alignment for Cross-modal Information Retrieval

    arXiv:2506.08774v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Different machine learning models can represent the same underlying concept in different ways. This variability is particularly valuable for in-the-wild multimodal retrieval, where the objective is to identify the correspo…

  3. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Runhao Li, Xiaoxu Ma, Zhenyu Weng, Yue Zhang, Guibo Luo, Huiping Zhuang, Zhiping Lin, Yap-Peng Tan ·

    Attribute-Prompted Kernel Hashing for Unsupervised Data-Efficient Cross-Modal Retrieval

    arXiv:2607.00379v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Unsupervised cross-modal hashing enables efficient retrieval of semantically related instances across different modalities without requiring manual semantic annotation. However, existing unsupervised methods rely heavily on large-…

  4. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Zixu Zhao, Yang Zhan, Yunhao Li, Yan Li ·

    TCMA: Text-Conditioned Multi-granularity Alignment for Drone Cross-Modal Text-Video Retrieval

    arXiv:2510.10180v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have become powerful platforms for real-time, high-resolution data collection, producing massive volumes of aerial videos. Efficient retrieval of relevant content from these videos is crucial for …

  5. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yap-Peng Tan ·

    Unsupervised Data-Efficient Cross-Modal Retrieval with Global-Neighborhood Alignment Hashing

    Compared to supervised cross-modal hashing (CMH), unsupervised CMH reduces the reliance on manual labeling by learning binary codes from unlabeled image-text pairs. However, existing unsupervised CMH methods often rely on large-scale image-text pairs, which are costly to collect.…

  6. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Yini Huang, Wenlong Zhang ·

    UniCA: Bi-directional Cross-Attention with Positive Similarity Loss for Robust Multi-Modal Retrieval

    arXiv:2606.28350v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-modal retrieval has become increasingly critical for handling the growing volume of integrated visual-textual data in real-world applications, but existing frameworks rely on implicit fusion via text encoder self-attention, …