ResearchBenchmarksImage-Text Alignment Evaluation on Flickr8k Expert 36 (test)Follow58.3Tau-cSoft-MSD46.3449.44552.5555.655May 7, 2026Evaluation ResultsMethodMethodLinksTau-cTau-bSoft-MSD2026.0558.357.5EXPERT2026.0556.7—HICE-S2026.0556.455.9BRIDGEBackbone=ViT-L/14Backbone=ViT-L/142026.0555.855.4InfoMeTIC+2026.0555.5—BRIDGEBackbone=ViT-B/32Backbone=ViT-B/322026.0554.854.4PAC-S2026.0554.353.9InfoMeTIC2026.0554.2—UMIC2026.0546.8—