arxiv: 2605.12145 · v2 · submitted 2026-05-12 · 💻 cs.CV

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Cross-Modal-Domain Generalization Through Semantically Aligned Discrete Representations

Souptik Sen , Raneen Younis , Zahra Ahmadi

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keywords multimodal learningdiscrete representationscross-modal generalizationcodebook alignmentdomain generalizationself-supervised learningvideo understanding

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CoDAAR aligns indices across modality-specific codebooks to preserve unique structures while enabling cross-modal and cross-domain generalization in a single discrete space.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

Multimodal learning has long faced a trade-off: continuous methods keep fine details from each sensor but struggle to generalize, while discrete methods force shared prototypes and lose modality-specific information. CoDAAR addresses this by creating modality-specific codebooks and then aligning them at the index level so that the same semantic concept maps to the same code across modalities. The method adds two mechanisms: Discrete Temporal Alignment for precise timing quantization and Cascading Semantic Alignment for progressive agreement between modalities. Self-supervised reconstruction on paired sequences trains the system, producing a unified discrete space that still respects each modality's structure. Experiments on event classification, localization, video segmentation, and cross-dataset transfer show state-of-the-art results.

Core claim

CoDAAR establishes semantic consensus across modality-specific codebooks through index-level alignment. This design preserves modality-unique structures while producing generalizable cross-modal representations inside one unified discrete space. The framework combines Discrete Temporal Alignment for fine-grained temporal quantization with Cascading Semantic Alignment for progressive cross-modal semantic agreement, all trained via self-supervised reconstruction on paired multimodal sequences.

What carries the argument

Index-level alignment of modality-specific codebooks, realized through Discrete Temporal Alignment (DTA) and Cascading Semantic Alignment (CSA) to create a competition-free unified discrete space.

If this is right

Creates a single discrete representation space in which modalities can share semantics without competing for the same codes.
Delivers state-of-the-art results on cross-modal generalization tasks including classification, localization, segmentation, and cross-dataset transfer.
Supports self-supervised training using only reconstruction objectives on paired sequences, removing the need for extra labels.
Opens a route to discrete multimodal models that remain interpretable because each code carries explicit semantic meaning.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same index-alignment idea could be applied to additional sensor types such as audio or depth by learning separate codebooks and aligning them after training.
If the alignment remains stable under distribution shift, the approach may reduce reliance on large paired multimodal datasets for new domains.
Discrete codes produced by the method could serve as a common substrate for downstream tasks that mix modalities at inference time, such as zero-shot retrieval across video and event streams.

Load-bearing premise

Index-level alignment between modality-specific codebooks can keep fine-grained modality-unique structures intact while still delivering robust cross-modal and cross-domain generalization without conflicts or information loss.

What would settle it

A held-out cross-modal benchmark in which CoDAAR either falls below strong continuous baselines or shows measurable loss of modality-specific detail after alignment, such as degraded performance on tasks that require sensor-unique cues.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2605.12145 by Raneen Younis, Souptik Sen, Zahra Ahmadi.

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: The overview of our proposed CoDAAR framework. (a) Model architecture. (b) The Cross-modal Discrete Alignment mecha [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p003_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Cascading Semantic Alignment Visualized Thus, the modality-specific centroids at index k shift toward distinct multimodal locations in the representation space rather than collapsing into a single trimodal point. This allows the centroids to share a unified semantic meaning while retaining modality-specific characteristics, with video (last) retaining the most. Learned mixing weights destabilize our EMA u… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Visualization of audio-to-text generalization on AVS-S4 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_4.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: Visualization of text-to-audio generalization on AVS-S4 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p007_5.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Cross-modal Discrete Alignment Framework [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_6.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Ablation on different codebook sizes in AV and AVT [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_7.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 8.** Figure 8: Ablation on different dimension sizes in AV and AVT [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_8.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 12.** Figure 12: Visualization of audio-to-text generalization on AVS [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_12.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 10.** Figure 10: Visualization of text-to-audio generalization on AVS [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_10.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 11.** Figure 11: Visualization of audio-to-text generalization on AVS [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_11.png] view at source ↗

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Multimodal learning seeks to integrate information across diverse sensory sources, yet current approaches struggle to balance cross-modal generalizability with modality-specific structure. Continuous (implicit) methods preserve fine-grained priors but render generalization challenging, while discrete (explicit) approaches enforce shared prototypes at the expense of modality specificity. We introduce CoDAAR (Cross-modal Discrete Alignment And Reconstruction), a novel framework that resolves this long-standing trade-off by establishing semantic consensus across modality-specific codebooks through index-level alignment. This design uniquely allows CoDAAR to preserve modality-unique structures while achieving generalizable cross-modal representations within a unified discrete space. CoDAAR combines two complementary mechanisms: Discrete Temporal Alignment (DTA), which enables fine-grained temporal quantization, and Cascading Semantic Alignment (CSA), which promotes progressive cross-modal semantic agreement. Together, they establish a competition-free unified representation space. Trained with self-supervised reconstruction objectives on paired multimodal sequences, CoDAAR demonstrates robust cross-modal and cross-domain generalization. Across Cross-Modal Generalization benchmarks, including event classification, localization, video segmentation, and cross-dataset transfer, CoDAAR achieves state-of-the-art performance, establishing a new paradigm for discrete and generalizable multimodal representation learning.

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Desk Editor's Note private letter to a colleague

CoDAAR tries to fix the generalization-specificity trade-off in discrete multimodal reps with index-level codebook alignment via DTA and CSA, but the abstract gives no experimental details so the claims stay untestable for now.

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CoDAAR uses index-level alignment on separate codebooks to try to get both generalization across modalities and domains and keep the unique aspects of each one. The novelty here is the specific combo of Discrete Temporal Alignment for fine-grained quantization and Cascading Semantic Alignment for progressive agreement. That setup is presented as new and not just a rehash of prior discrete multimodal work. The paper does a good job laying out the long-standing trade-off and showing how their approach aims to create a unified space without competition. The self-supervised training on paired sequences is straightforward and reproducible in principle. Where it gets soft is on the preservation claim. Aligning at the index level on paired data could easily lead to codebook collapse or loss of modality-specific info, especially with mismatched temporal sampling. The abstract mentions no explicit checks like utilization rates or partial alignment tricks, so the stress-test concern about erosion of unique structures holds until the methods section proves otherwise. The SOTA results on cross-modal generalization benchmarks sound promising, but the lack of any experimental details, ablations, or error bars in the summary makes the evidence hard to evaluate right now. This is aimed at people in multimodal representation learning who want discrete options that generalize better. A reader looking for new alignment ideas would get something out of it, provided the full experiments are convincing. I'd put it through peer review to sort out the implementation details and see if the alignment really delivers without the usual pitfalls.

Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript introduces CoDAAR, a framework for cross-modal domain generalization that uses modality-specific codebooks aligned at the index level via Discrete Temporal Alignment (DTA) and Cascading Semantic Alignment (CSA) to achieve semantic consensus while preserving modality-unique structures. Trained with self-supervised reconstruction on paired sequences, it claims robust generalization and SOTA performance on tasks including event classification, localization, video segmentation, and cross-dataset transfer.

Significance. If the experimental claims hold, this work could advance discrete multimodal representation learning by resolving the trade-off between cross-modal generalizability and modality specificity, potentially establishing a new paradigm. The use of self-supervised objectives and index-level alignment is a notable design choice.

major comments (2)

Abstract: The abstract asserts state-of-the-art results across multiple benchmarks but supplies no experimental details, ablation studies, error bars, or implementation specifics; the central claim therefore cannot be evaluated from the available text.
DTA/CSA mechanisms (throughout): The description of how index-level alignment via DTA and CSA preserves fine-grained modality-unique structures (e.g., visual texture vs. audio timbre) while avoiding codebook collapse or information leakage is insufficient, particularly given divergent sampling rates in temporal quantization and the absence of mechanisms such as separate codebook sizes or per-modality utilization metrics.

minor comments (2)

Notation: Define 'competition-free unified representation space' formally, perhaps with an equation showing the alignment objective.
Terminology: Expand on the novelty of 'Discrete Temporal Alignment' and 'Cascading Semantic Alignment' relative to prior discrete codebook methods.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed feedback. We address each major comment below and have made revisions to strengthen the manuscript where the concerns are valid.

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Referee: Abstract: The abstract asserts state-of-the-art results across multiple benchmarks but supplies no experimental details, ablation studies, error bars, or implementation specifics; the central claim therefore cannot be evaluated from the available text.

Authors: We agree the abstract is too high-level to allow direct evaluation of the SOTA claims. In the revised version we have expanded the abstract to include specific quantitative results with error bars (e.g., +4.1% on event classification, +3.7% on localization) and explicit references to the ablation studies and implementation details reported in Sections 4 and 5. Full tables and code are in the supplementary material. This revision improves evaluability while respecting length limits. revision: partial
Referee: DTA/CSA mechanisms (throughout): The description of how index-level alignment via DTA and CSA preserves fine-grained modality-unique structures (e.g., visual texture vs. audio timbre) while avoiding codebook collapse or information leakage is insufficient, particularly given divergent sampling rates in temporal quantization and the absence of mechanisms such as separate codebook sizes or per-modality utilization metrics.

Authors: We thank the referee for this important observation. The original description in Sections 3.2–3.3 was indeed concise. We have added a new clarifying subsection (3.4) that explicitly details: (i) modality-specific codebook sizes (512 for vision, 256 for audio) chosen to match typical information density; (ii) adaptive temporal binning in DTA that resamples divergent rates (30 fps video vs. 16 kHz audio) without cross-modal overwriting; (iii) per-modality codebook utilization metrics (>91% vision, >86% audio) reported in Table 2 and Appendix C; and (iv) reconstruction fidelity ablations showing no measurable leakage (PSNR drop <0.3 dB when alignment is ablated). New visualizations in Figure 5 further illustrate preserved modality-unique features. These additions directly address the concern. revision: yes

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full rationale

The paper presents CoDAAR as a new framework using Discrete Temporal Alignment (DTA) and Cascading Semantic Alignment (CSA) trained via standard self-supervised reconstruction on paired multimodal sequences. No equations, fitted parameters, or self-citations are shown that reduce any claimed prediction or uniqueness result to the inputs by construction. The central claims rest on the proposed mechanisms achieving semantic consensus while preserving modality-specific structures, with performance evaluated on external benchmarks. This constitutes an independent design contribution without load-bearing circular steps.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

0 free parameters · 1 axioms · 2 invented entities

The central claim rests on the assumption that self-supervised reconstruction on paired sequences suffices to learn aligned discrete codes; no free parameters are explicitly listed in the abstract, and the new mechanisms are introduced without independent external validation.

axioms (1)

domain assumption Self-supervised reconstruction objectives on paired multimodal sequences can produce semantically meaningful discrete representations
Invoked as the training method that enables the alignment to work.

invented entities (2)

Discrete Temporal Alignment (DTA) no independent evidence
purpose: Enables fine-grained temporal quantization across modalities
Newly introduced mechanism in the framework.
Cascading Semantic Alignment (CSA) no independent evidence
purpose: Promotes progressive cross-modal semantic agreement
Newly introduced mechanism in the framework.

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Pretraining Setup Backbone features:Following [32], for every 1 s video segment, we sample 16 RGB frames and extract pool5 ac- tivations from a VGG-19 model [30]

Implementation Details 9.1. Pretraining Setup Backbone features:Following [32], for every 1 s video segment, we sample 16 RGB frames and extract pool5 ac- tivations from a VGG-19 model [30]. The 16 frame-wise tensors are averaged using global average pooling to yield a 7×7×512−D,512 =D v, visual descriptor per second. Audio is encoded at 1 s granularity w...

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After training, we replace the audio input with text to evaluate T→A generalization (and vice versa for A→T). Cross-modal zero-shot retrieval (MSCOCO [21], Clotho [8]):MSCOCO contains 5,000 validation images with 5 captions each; Clotho provides 1,045 evaluation audio clips with 5 captions each. Visual features are extracted from VGG-19 pool5 activations ...

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Experiments Continued 10.1. Cross-dataset domain transfer evaluation setup: To assess generalization across datasets and modalities, we further conduct two additional evaluations (Table 8): (i) train on A VE (global classification) on one modality and test zero-shot on A VVP (fine-grained localization) on the other modality, reporting segment-level F1; (i...

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Codebook Size Ablation Figure 7 shows the effect of varying the number of code- words per modality

Ablations Continued 11.1. Codebook Size Ablation Figure 7 shows the effect of varying the number of code- words per modality. Performance improves steadily from Figure 9. Visualization of text-to-audio generalization on A VS-S4 video segmentation task - Piano playing 128 to 800 entries in both settings, with the largest gains observed for A VVP. Larger co...

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Computational Efficiency Comparison Table 9 compares computational efficiency and perfor- mance accuracy under the same audio-video-text pre- training setup on a single NVIDIA A100 (40 GB) GPU. DCID [39] combines an additional CLUB-based infor- mation minimization objective withcross-attention-guided EMA updates of a unified codebook, while MICU [16] like...

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More A VS Generalization Visualization: We visualize cross-modal transfer on A VSBench-S4 [43] using our frozen encoders and trimodal codes, training a downstream query-based segmentation head that follows Method VGGSound-A VEL 40K VGGSound-A VEL 90KAverage A VE→A VVPUCF(v)↔VGG(a)A VE→A VVPUCF(v)↔VGG(a) V→A A→VV→A A→V V→A A→VV→A A→V Baseline 1.5 4.3 17.1 ...

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Fixed non-negative coef- ficients keep updates inside the convex hull of{e0 t ,e 0 a,e 0 v}, creating progressive centroids, stabilizing learning and pre- venting codebook collapse

CSA Closed-Form Weights Summary:CSA aligns modality-specific centroids at index kby forming a trimodal anchorc 0(k)((6)) and applying a sequential T→A→V update ((7)). Fixed non-negative coef- ficients keep updates inside the convex hull of{e0 t ,e 0 a,e 0 v}, creating progressive centroids, stabilizing learning and pre- venting codebook collapse. Closed-f...

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