Text Alignment
Text alignment in AI focuses on improving the correspondence between textual and visual information, or between different textual representations, to enhance the performance of various machine learning models. Current research emphasizes developing methods for robust alignment across diverse modalities (image-text, video-text, table-text), often employing transformer-based architectures and contrastive learning techniques to learn effective representations and improve model generalization. These advancements are crucial for improving the accuracy and efficiency of tasks ranging from image captioning and visual question answering to semantic segmentation and large language model adaptation, ultimately leading to more powerful and reliable AI systems.