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Vision-Language Pre-Training with Triple Contrastive Learning

21 Feb 2022CVPR 2022 1arXiv:2202.10401archive 2025-07-28

Jinyu Yang, Jiali Duan, Son Tran, Yi Xu, Sampath Chanda, Liqun Chen, Belinda Zeng, Trishul Chilimbi, Junzhou Huang

Vision-language representation learning largely benefits from image-text alignment through contrastive losses (e.g., InfoNCE loss). The success of this alignment strategy is attributed to its capability in maximizing the mutual information (MI) between an image and its matched text. However, simply performing cross-modal alignment (CMA) ignores data potential within each modality, which may result in degraded representations. For instance, although CMA-based models are able to map image-text pairs close together in the embedding space, they fail to ensure that similar inputs from the same modality stay close by. This problem can get even worse when the pre-training data is noisy. In this paper, we propose triple contrastive learning (TCL) for vision-language pre-training by leveraging both cross-modal and intra-modal self-supervision. Besides CMA, TCL introduces an intra-modal contrastive objective to provide complementary benefits in representation learning. To take advantage of localized and structural information from image and text input, TCL further maximizes the average MI between local regions of image/text and their global summary. To the best of our knowledge, ours is the first work that takes into account local structure information for multi-modality representation learning. Experimental evaluations show that our approach is competitive and achieves the new state of the art on various common down-stream vision-language tasks such as image-text retrieval and visual question answering.

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Tasks

Contrastive LearningCross-Modal RetrievalImage-text RetrievalQuestion AnsweringRepresentation LearningRetrievalText RetrievalVisual Question AnsweringVisual Question Answering (VQA)Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrievalcross-modal alignment

Results from the paper archive 2025-07-28

TaskDatasetModelMetricValueRank at snapshotLeaderboardReport
Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 TCL Image-to-text R@1 75.6 #18 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 TCL Image-to-text R@10 96.7 #18 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 TCL Image-to-text R@5 92.8 #18 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 TCL Text-to-image R@1 59.0 #18 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 TCL Text-to-image R@10 89.9 #18 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 TCL Text-to-image R@5 83.2 #18 of 36 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 TCL Image-to-text R@1 71.4 #3 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 TCL Image-to-text R@10 95.4 #3 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 TCL Image-to-text R@5 90.8 #3 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 TCL Text-to-image R@1 53.5 #3 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 TCL Text-to-image R@10 87.1 #3 of 18 Archive leaderboard report
Zero-Shot Cross-Modal Retrieval COCO 2014 TCL Text-to-image R@5 79.0 #3 of 18 Archive leaderboard report

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Contrastive LearningInfoNCE

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