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New metric diagnoses modality imbalance in medical vision-language models

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Researchers have developed a new metric called the Spectral Alignment Score (SAS) to better diagnose issues in vision-language models (VLMs) when applied to medical data. Unlike existing symmetric metrics, SAS is asymmetric and can identify which modality, image or text, is causing performance degradation. Experiments using SAS on 15 VLMs revealed that medical images contain more structural information than their corresponding clinical reports, a finding missed by other metrics. AI

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New metric diagnoses modality imbalance in medical vision-language models

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COVERAGE [3]

  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Alessandro Gambetti, Qiwei Han, Cl\'audia Soares, Hong Shen ·

    Beyond Symmetric Alignment: Spectral Diagnostics of Modality Imbalance in Vision-Language Models in the Medical Domain

    arXiv:2606.04613v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) struggle when applied to medical image-text data, yet the tools available to diagnose this failure remain limited. Existing representation alignment metrics are symmetric, collapsing both modalities i…

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

    Beyond Symmetric Alignment: Spectral Diagnostics of Modality Imbalance in Vision-Language Models in the Medical Domain

    Vision-Language Models (VLMs) struggle when applied to medical image-text data, yet the tools available to diagnose this failure remain limited. Existing representation alignment metrics are symmetric, collapsing both modalities into a single score and hiding which modality drive…

  3. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Hong Shen ·

    Beyond Symmetric Alignment: Spectral Diagnostics of Modality Imbalance in Vision-Language Models in the Medical Domain

    Vision-Language Models (VLMs) struggle when applied to medical image-text data, yet the tools available to diagnose this failure remain limited. Existing representation alignment metrics are symmetric, collapsing both modalities into a single score and hiding which modality drive…

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