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Generating counterfactual negative samples for image-text matching
DOI:10.1016/j.ipm.2024.103990.png)
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The method of image-text matching typically employs hard triplet loss as its optimization objective to learn coarse correspondences based on object co-occurrence statistics. However, due to insufficiently sampled negative instances, this coarse correspondences not only leads to the model learning biases in semantic co-occurrence but also obscures the model's understanding of crucial semantic and significant semantic contextual dependencies. In this study, we propose the Generating Feature-level and Relation-level Counterfactual Negative Samples method (GFRN) for image-text matching. This method utilizes prior knowledge and gradients to mask key regions or words to generate feature-level counterfactual negative samples, or disrupts their important contextual dependencies through Bernoulli distributions and self-supervised learning to generate relation-level counterfactual negative samples with sufficient information. Subsequently, we employ these counterfactual samples to construct contrastive triplet losses to enhance the training of the image-text matching model. Consequently, the model's ability to understand crucial semantic concepts and complex dependency relationships is significantly enhanced, and semantic biases are greatly reduced. Compared to state-of-the-art methods, the proposed GFRN improves rSum by 3.9% on Flickr30K, 2.0% on MSCOCO1K, and 4.8% on MSCOCO5K, with significant improvements in R@1 across all datasets.
Keyword:
Image-text matching
Cross-modal retrieval
Negative sample generation
Counterfactual reasoning
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