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New "Chaos in the Text" phenomenon degrades mixed-modality AI retrieval

Researchers have identified a significant performance degradation in mixed-modality retrieval systems when text and image data coexist, a phenomenon they term "Chaos in the Text." This issue arises because text representations often receive higher similarity scores, causing irrelevant text to outrank relevant images. To address this bias, a new method called Trident has been developed. Trident treats text, image, and fused text-image views as equally positive and uses Multi-Positive View InfoNCE to balance relevance and positive-view scores, improving retrieval performance across various architectures. AI

IMPACT This research highlights a key challenge in multimodal AI, potentially leading to more robust and accurate information retrieval systems across different data types.

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  1. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Maosong Sun ·

    Chaos in the Text: Revealing the Modality Preference in Mixed-Modality Retrievers

    Dense retrievers have made significant progress on text and image corpora, but whether these capabilities extend reliably to mixed corpora containing text, image, and fused text-image documents remains unclear. In this paper, we systematically examine retrievers across architectu…

  2. Hugging Face Daily Papers TIER_1 English(EN) ·

    Chaos in the Text: Revealing the Modality Preference in Mixed-Modality Retrievers

    Dense retrievers have made significant progress on text and image corpora, but whether these capabilities extend reliably to mixed corpora containing text, image, and fused text-image documents remains unclear. In this paper, we systematically examine retrievers across architectu…