4 papers
Do Image-Text Metrics Respect Semantic Invariances?
Amit Agarwal, Hitesh Laxmichand Patel, Meizhu Liu +9
Reference-free image-to-text evaluators are now standard for scoring image-caption alignment, yet it is unclear whether they respect semantic invariances. We present an invariance…
Robust Audio-Text Retrieval via Cross-Modal Attention and Hybrid Loss
Meizhu Liu, Matthew Rowe, Amit Agarwal +8
Audio-text retrieval enables semantic alignment between audio content and natural language queries, supporting applications in multimedia search, accessibility, and surveillance. H…
Lightweight and Production-Ready PDF Visual Element Parsing
Meizhu Liu, Yassi Abbasi, Matthew Rowe +2
PDF documents contain critical visual elements such as figures, tables, and forms whose accurate extraction is essential for document understanding and multimodal retrieval-augment…
Think Twice Before You Write -- an Entropy-based Decoding Strategy to Enhance LLM Reasoning
Jiashu He, Meizhu Liu, Olaitan P Olaleye +9
Decoding strategies play a central role in shaping the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs). Traditional methods such as greedy decoding and beam search often suffer f…