World Alignment: unpaired cross-modal correspondence by relational identifiability

Method: scene states are sets of part states; relation fields are built
within each modality and are invariant to how each side labels its own
features; the cross-modal bridge is a coupling searched under an energy
that is a closed-form functional of one matrix; solving is spectral
initialisation followed by exact local refinement.

Evidence: in a procedurally generated closed world, blind recovery of a
hidden image-caption correspondence reaches 95.3% at 256 scenes against
0.39% chance, and the recovered pairs transfer to 200 held-out scenes at
93.0% exact retrieval with random-pair and shuffled-image controls at or
near chance. Cross-modal value correspondence is derived from disjoint
corpora rather than declared. On Visual Genome the field correlation
reaches 0.656 against the 0.9 that polynomial recovery needs, with the
deficit attributed away from segmentation and discretisation.

Protocol: no image-text pair enters any objective, optimiser,
initialisation, or model selection; hidden pairs score orderings only.

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>

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+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+from pathlib import Path
+
+import numpy as np
+from scipy import sparse
+from scipy.sparse.linalg import eigsh
+import torch
+
+from .common import normalized, write_json
+from .vg_diagnose import (
+    aligned_text_indices,
+    arbitrary_target_retrieval,
+    bundle_signature,
+    rank_normalize_columns,
+)
+
+
+def parse_args() -> argparse.Namespace:
+    parser = argparse.ArgumentParser()
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--vision", default="artifacts/vg/vision_features.pt"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("--text", default="artifacts/vg/text_features.pt")
+    parser.add_argument(
+        "--truth", default="artifacts/vg/ground_truth.private.jsonl"
+    )
+    parser.add_argument("--max-nodes", type=int, default=5_000)
+    parser.add_argument("--knn", type=int, default=32)
+    parser.add_argument("--eigenpairs", type=int, default=96)
+    parser.add_argument("--heat-scales", type=int, default=24)
+    parser.add_argument("--message-passing-steps", type=int, default=3)
+    parser.add_argument("--output", default="artifacts/vg/graph_diagnostics.json")
+    return parser.parse_args()
+
+
+def scene_features(state: dict, indices: torch.Tensor | None = None) -> torch.Tensor:
+    if "global_features" in state:
+        features = state["global_features"]
+    else:
+        features = state["region_features"].mean(1)
+    return features if indices is None else features[indices]
+
+
+def exact_rank_knn_graph(
+    features: torch.Tensor, neighbors: int
+) -> tuple[sparse.csr_matrix, torch.Tensor]:
+    """Build a symmetrized rank-weighted graph and retain density statistics."""
+    x = normalized(features.float())
+    similarity = x @ x.T
+    similarity.fill_diagonal_(-torch.inf)
+    k = min(neighbors, len(x) - 1)
+    values, indices = similarity.topk(k, dim=1)
+
+    # Rank weights avoid assuming that cosine scales agree across modalities.
+    rank_weight = np.exp(
+        -np.arange(k, dtype=np.float64) / max(k / 4.0, 1.0)
+    )
+    rows = np.repeat(np.arange(len(x), dtype=np.int64), k)
+    cols = indices.cpu().numpy().reshape(-1)
+    data = np.tile(rank_weight, len(x))
+    directed = sparse.csr_matrix(
+        (data, (rows, cols)), shape=(len(x), len(x))
+    )
+    adjacency = directed.maximum(directed.T)
+    adjacency.setdiag(0)
+    adjacency.eliminate_zeros()
+
+    density_quantiles = torch.quantile(
+        values,
+        torch.tensor([0.0, 0.25, 0.5, 0.75, 1.0]),
+        dim=1,
+    ).T
+    return adjacency, density_quantiles
+
+
+def heat_kernel_signature(
+    adjacency: sparse.csr_matrix, eigenpairs: int, scales: int
+) -> tuple[torch.Tensor, np.ndarray]:
+    """Return basis-invariant diagonal heat-kernel signatures."""
+    degree = np.asarray(adjacency.sum(axis=1)).reshape(-1)
+    inv_sqrt_degree = 1.0 / np.sqrt(np.maximum(degree, 1e-12))
+    normalizer = sparse.diags(inv_sqrt_degree)
+    normalized_adjacency = normalizer @ adjacency @ normalizer
+    k = min(eigenpairs, adjacency.shape[0] - 2)
+    eigenvalues, eigenvectors = eigsh(
+        normalized_adjacency, k=k, which="LA", tol=1e-4
+    )
+    order = np.argsort(eigenvalues)[::-1]
+    eigenvalues = eigenvalues[order]
+    eigenvectors = eigenvectors[:, order]
+    laplacian_eigenvalues = np.clip(1.0 - eigenvalues, 0.0, None)
+
+    positive = laplacian_eigenvalues[laplacian_eigenvalues > 1e-8]
+    lower = 0.25 / max(float(positive.max(initial=1.0)), 1e-8)
+    upper = 8.0 / max(float(positive.min(initial=1.0)), 1e-8)
+    times = np.geomspace(lower, upper, scales)
+    heat = (eigenvectors**2) @ np.exp(
+        -laplacian_eigenvalues[:, None] * times[None, :]
+    )
+    return torch.from_numpy(heat).float(), degree
+
+
+def graph_signature(
+    features: torch.Tensor,
+    neighbors: int,
+    eigenpairs: int,
+    heat_scales: int,
+    message_passing_steps: int,
+) -> torch.Tensor:
+    adjacency, density = exact_rank_knn_graph(features, neighbors)
+    heat, degree = heat_kernel_signature(
+        adjacency, eigenpairs=eigenpairs, scales=heat_scales
+    )
+    base = rank_normalize_columns(
+        torch.cat(
+            [
+                density,
+                torch.from_numpy(np.log1p(degree)).float()[:, None],
+                heat,
+            ],
+            dim=1,
+        )
+    )
+    transition = sparse.diags(
+        1.0 / np.maximum(np.asarray(adjacency.sum(axis=1)).reshape(-1), 1e-12)
+    ) @ adjacency
+    current = base
+    for _ in range(message_passing_steps):
+        current_np = current.numpy()
+        neighbor_mean = torch.from_numpy(transition @ current_np).float()
+        neighbor_square_mean = torch.from_numpy(
+            transition @ np.square(current_np)
+        ).float()
+        neighbor_std = torch.sqrt(
+            torch.clamp(neighbor_square_mean - neighbor_mean.square(), min=0)
+        )
+        current = rank_normalize_columns(
+            torch.cat([base, neighbor_mean, neighbor_std], dim=1)
+        )
+    return current
+
+
+def main() -> None:
+    args = parse_args()
+    vision = torch.load(args.vision, map_location="cpu", weights_only=False)
+    text = torch.load(args.text, map_location="cpu", weights_only=False)
+    n = min(args.max_nodes, len(vision["node_ids"]), len(text["node_ids"]))
+    vision_ids = vision["node_ids"][:n]
+    target_full = aligned_text_indices(
+        vision_ids, text["node_ids"], args.truth
+    )
+    candidate_indices = torch.unique(target_full, sorted=False)
+    if len(candidate_indices) != n:
+        raise ValueError("Ground truth is not a one-to-one permutation")
+    candidate_lookup = {
+        int(old): new for new, old in enumerate(candidate_indices.tolist())
+    }
+    targets = torch.tensor(
+        [candidate_lookup[int(old)] for old in target_full.tolist()]
+    )
+
+    vision_scene = scene_features(vision)[:n]
+    text_scene = scene_features(text, candidate_indices)
+    vision_graph = graph_signature(
+        vision_scene,
+        args.knn,
+        args.eigenpairs,
+        args.heat_scales,
+        args.message_passing_steps,
+    )
+    text_graph = graph_signature(
+        text_scene,
+        args.knn,
+        args.eigenpairs,
+        args.heat_scales,
+        args.message_passing_steps,
+    )
+
+    vision_bundle = rank_normalize_columns(
+        bundle_signature(vision["region_features"][:n])
+    )
+    text_bundle = rank_normalize_columns(
+        bundle_signature(text["region_features"][candidate_indices])
+    )
+    combined_vision = torch.cat(
+        [normalized(vision_graph), normalized(vision_bundle)], dim=1
+    )
+    combined_text = torch.cat(
+        [normalized(text_graph), normalized(text_bundle)], dim=1
+    )
+
+    result = {
+        "nodes": n,
+        "knn": min(args.knn, n - 1),
+        "eigenpairs": min(args.eigenpairs, n - 2),
+        "heat_scales": args.heat_scales,
+        "message_passing_steps": args.message_passing_steps,
+        "graph_signature_retrieval": arbitrary_target_retrieval(
+            vision_graph, text_graph, targets
+        ),
+        "bundle_signature_retrieval": arbitrary_target_retrieval(
+            vision_bundle, text_bundle, targets
+        ),
+        "combined_signature_retrieval": arbitrary_target_retrieval(
+            combined_vision, combined_text, targets
+        ),
+        "evaluation_note": (
+            "Each signature is computed independently from one modality. "
+            "Ground truth is loaded only after graph construction to score "
+            "the hidden permutation."
+        ),
+    }
+    Path(args.output).parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+    write_json(args.output, result)
+    print(json.dumps(result, indent=2))
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()