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New ITO framework enhances image-text pretraining with multi-view alignment

Researchers have introduced ITO, a new framework designed to improve image-text pretraining by enhancing the alignment and fusion of multimodal data. ITO utilizes multi-view image augmentations to create diverse cross-modal correspondences, thereby enriching supervision. Additionally, a lightweight fusion module is employed during training to regularize encoders, promoting feature compatibility without impacting inference efficiency. Experiments across various scales, from millions to billions of image-text pairs, demonstrate that ITO surpasses strong contrastive baselines and yields consistent gains over CLIP on classification, retrieval, and multimodal benchmarks. AI

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New ITO framework enhances image-text pretraining with multi-view alignment

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Hanpeng Liu, Zidan Wang, Shuoxi Zhang, Zonglin Zhao, Zihao Bo, Rinyoichi Takezoe, Kaiwen Long, Yaqian Li, Kun He ·

    ITO: Multi-View Alignment and Training-Time Fusion for Image-Text Pretraining

    arXiv:2603.02767v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Image--text contrastive pretraining has become a dominant paradigm for visual representation learning, yet existing methods often yield representations that remain partially organized by modality rather than by semantics. …