WAON: A Large-Scale Japanese Image-Text Dataset for Cultural Adaptation in Contrastive Vision-Language Models

Name: WAON: A Large-Scale Japanese Image-Text Dataset for Cultural Adaptation in Contrastive Vision-Language Models
Uploaded: 2026-10-06T14:23:08.563809+00:00
Duration: 248 s
Description: Researchers tested if large-scale pretraining alone is enough for vision-language models to understand Japanese culture. They created WAON, a massive native Japanese image-text dataset, and found that fine-tuning on this data significantly outperforms fine-tuning on translated English data when evaluating cultural understanding.

Researchers tested if large-scale pretraining alone is enough for vision-language models to understand Japanese culture. They created WAON, a massive native Japanese image-text dataset, and found that fine-tuning on this data significantly outperforms fine-tuning on translated English data when evaluating cultural understanding.

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