MM-SHAP: A Performance-agnostic Metric for Measuring Multimodal Contributions in Vision and Language Models Tasks
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Vision and language models (VL) are known to exploit unrobust indicators in individual modalities (e.g., introduced by distributional biases), instead of focusing on relevant information in each modality. A small drop in accuracy obtained on a VL task with a unimodal model suggests that so-called unimodal collapse occurred. But how to quantify the amount of unimodal collapse reliably, at dataset and instance-level, to diagnose and combat unimodal collapse in a targeted way? We present MM-SHAP, a performance-agnostic multimodality score that quantifies the proportion by which a model uses individual modalities in multimodal tasks. MM-SHAP is based on Shapley values and will be applied in two ways: (1) to compare models for their degree of multimodality, and (2) to measure the contribution of individual modalities for a given task and dataset. Experiments with 6 VL models – LXMERT, CLIP and four ALBEF variants – on four VL tasks highlight that unimodal collapse can occur to different degrees and in different directions, contradicting the wide-spread assumption that unimodal collapse is one-sided. We recommend MM-SHAP for analysing multimodal tasks, to diagnose and guide progress towards multimodal integration. Code available at: https://github.com/Heidelberg-NLP/MM-SHAP
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