Cross-Modal Similarity Learning via Pairs, Preferences, and Active Supervision

We present a probabilistic framework for learning pairwise similarities between objects belonging to different modalities, such as drugs and proteins, or text and images. Our framework is based on learning a binary code based representation for objects in each modality, and has the following key properties: (i) it can leverage both pairwise as well as easy-to-obtain relative preference based cross-modal constraints, (ii) the probabilistic framework naturally allows querying for the most useful/informative constraints, facilitating an active learning setting (existing methods for cross-modal similarity learning do not have such a mechanism), and (iii) the binary code length is learned from the data. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach on two problems that require computing pairwise similarities between cross-modal object pairs: cross-modal link prediction in bipartite graphs, and hashing based cross-modal similarity search.

Authors

• Yi Zhen
• Piyush Rai
• Hongyuan Zha Shenzhen Institute of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics for Society The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen
• Lawrence Carin

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