2026
SEPS: Semantic-Enhanced Patch Slimming Framework for Fine-Grained Cross-Modal Alignment
ICML 2026poster
Fine-grained cross-modal alignment is pivotal for multimodal reasoning yet remains limited by Semantic Sparsity Bias—a fundamental asymmetry where dense visual signals are under-represented by sparse textual captions. This disparity leads to the inadvertent suppression of contextually vital visual r…