ITO: Multi-View Alignment and Training-Time Fusion for Image-Text Pretraining
arXiv:2603.02767v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Image--text contrastive pretraining has become a dominant paradigm for visual representation learning, yet existing methods often yield representations that remain partially organized by modality rather than by semantics. We propose ITO, a framework addressing this limitation through two complementary mechanisms with distinct roles. Multimodal multiple alignment enriches supervision by constructing diverse cross-modal correspondences fro…