Deep Global-sense Hard-negative Discriminative Generation Hashing for Cross-modal Retrieval

ICLR 2026 Conference Submission17433 Authors

Keywords: Deep Hashing, Cross-modal Retrieval, Informative Learning, Hard Negative Generation

Abstract:

Hard negative generation (HNG) provides valuable signals for deep learning, but existing methods mostly rely on local correlations while neglecting the global geometry of the embedding space. This limitation often leads to weak discrimination, particularly in cross-modal hashing, which obtains compact binary codes.
We propose Deep Global-sense Hard-negative Discriminative Generation Hashing (DGHDGH), a framework that constructs a structured graph with dual-iterative message propagation to capture global correlations, and then performs difficulty-adaptive, channel-wise interpolation to synthesize semantically consistent hard negatives aligned with global Hamming geometry.
Our approach yields more informative negatives, sharpens semantic boundaries in the Hamming co-space, and substantially enhances cross-modal retrieval. Experiments on multiple benchmarks consistently demonstrate improvements in retrieval accuracy, verifying the discriminative advantages brought by global-sense HNG in cross-modal hashing.

Primary Area: applications to computer vision, audio, language, and other modalities

Submission Number: 17433