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Exploring Image-Text Alignment for Radio Galaxy Morphologies

Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: We investigate whether specially constructed text captions can capture the same morphological information as radio galaxy images. Using the MiraBest dataset, we generate captions with a domain-specific prompt and evaluate their alignment with images through the SigLIP-2 vision--language model, with and without LoRA fine-tuning. Results show that caption-based classification of FR-I and FR-II galaxies performs similarly to images, with fine-tuning improving local coherence of embeddings but not global alignment.
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7167706289
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