Align Where the Words Look: Cross-Attention-Guided Patch Alignment with Contrastive and Transport Regularization for Bengali Captioning

Riad Ahmed Anonto, Sardar Md. Saffat Zabin, M. Saifur Rahman

Grounding vision--language models in low-resource languages remains challenging, as they often produce fluent text about the wrong objects. This stems from scarce paired data, tran…