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pikaliov 4a0336e0ff Update README: MONA vs LoRA rationale, projection 1024→512, model summary
- Document why MONA (spatial inductive bias) over LoRA for DINOv3
- Add MONA vs LoRA comparison table for CVGL
- Document projection head (1024→512) and retrieval space change
- Update model summary: 436M total, 9.0M trainable (2.06%), dim=512
- Note MONA fp16, gradient checkpointing, shared encoder

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# Caption Quality Test for Cross-View Geo-Localization
Validate whether generated text captions improve retrieval R@1 in cross-view
geo-localization (drone-to-satellite).
## Architecture
### Overview
Asymmetric dual-encoder with domain-specific frozen backbones and hierarchical
text fusion for drone-to-satellite image retrieval.
```
┌─────────────────────────────── QUERY BRANCH ─────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ drone_img ──► DINOv3 ViT-L/16 LVD (frozen, 303M) ──► CLS token │
│ [B,3,256,256] + MONA adapters (7M trainable) d_img [B,1024] │
│ (2 per block × 24 blocks, bn=64) │ │
│ │ │
│ L1 (overview) ──► DGTRS-CLIP ViT-L-14 ──► z₁ [B,768] ─┐ │
│ L2 (full desc) ──► (frozen, 124M) ──► z₂ [B,768] ─┼─ cat ──[B,2304] │
│ L3 (fingerprint) ──► + LoRA r=4 (147K) ──► z₃ [B,768] ─┘ │ │
│ (248 tok, KPS pos.) TextFusionMLP (shared, 3.4M) │
│ Linear→GELU→Linear │
│ │ │
│ d_txt [B,1024] │
│ │ │
│ q = σ(α_q)·d_img + (1σ(α_q))·d_txt GatedFusion_q │
│ │ │
│ q̂ = q / ‖q‖₂ ──► query [B,1024] │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────── GALLERY BRANCH ────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ sat_img ──► DINOv3 ViT-L/16 SAT (frozen, 303M) ──► CLS token │
│ [B,3,256,256] + MONA adapters (7M trainable) s_img [B,1024] │
│ (2 per block × 24 blocks, bn=64) │ │
│ │ │
│ sat_L1 ──► DGTRS-CLIP ──► z₁ [768] ─┐ │
│ sat_L2 ──► (shared encoder)──► z₂ [768] ─┼─ cat ──► TextFusionMLP (shared) │
│ sat_L3 ──► + LoRA ──► z₃ [768] ─┘ │ │
│ s_txt [B,1024] │
│ │ │
│ g = σ(α_g)·s_img + (1σ(α_g))·s_txt GatedFusion_g │
│ │ │
│ ĝ = g / ‖g‖₂ ──► gallery [B,1024] │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌────────────────────────────── RETRIEVAL ──────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ similarity = q̂ · ĝᵀ / τ (τ learnable, init=0.07, clamp [0.01, 0.5]) │
│ loss = 0.6·CE(q→g) + 0.4·CE(g→q) (label_smoothing=0.1) │
│ │
│ Retrieval space: 1024-dim (DINOv3 native, no projection layers) │
│ TextFusionMLP shared between query and gallery branches │
│ For sat images without captions: s_txt=None → g = s_img (gate passthrough) │
│ BASELINE: σ(α) = 1.0 for both branches (text disabled, DGTRS not loaded) │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌──────────────────────────── DIAGNOSTICS PIPELINE ────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ Per-batch ──► CSV (train_batches.csv) ──► TensorBoard / W&B scalars │
│ Per-epoch ──► CSV (train.csv, val.csv) ──► Seaborn plots (PNG) │
│ Every N epochs ──► Grad-CAM heatmaps (drone + satellite DINOv3 last block) │
│ Epoch 0 (opt) ──► PyTorch Profiler (Chrome trace + CUDA timeline) │
│ Per-50-batch ──► Gradient norms per group (MONA, LoRA, MLP, gates, τ) │
│ On init ──► torchinfo model summary (model_summary.txt) │
└───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
```
### Text hierarchy (L1 / L2 / L3)
Each drone image has a VLM-generated caption (Qwen3-VL) split into 3 levels:
| Level | Name | Content | Typical length |
|-------|------|---------|----------------|
| **L1** | Overview | First sentence of P1: land-cover summary with class percentages | 1530 tokens |
| **L2** | Full description | Complete P1 (inventory) + P2 (spatial layout with 5+ zones) | 100200 tokens |
| **L3** | Fingerprint | P3: unique landmarks and spatial signature for matching | 2050 tokens |
All three levels are encoded by a **single DGTRS-CLIP ViT-L-14** text encoder
(248-token context via KPS positional embedding, 768-dim output)
adapted with **LoRA** (rank=4 on Q/V in all 12 blocks).
### Text fusion (shared MLP for both branches)
```math
\mathbf{z}_{\text{text}} = \text{MLP}\bigl([\mathbf{z}_1 \;;\; \mathbf{z}_2 \;;\; \mathbf{z}_3]\bigr)
```
where `[z₁ ; z₂ ; z₃] ∈ ^{B×2304}` is the concatenation of three 768-dim DGTRS-CLIP embeddings, and
```math
\text{MLP}: \text{Linear}(2304, 1024) \to \text{GELU} \to \text{Linear}(1024, 1024), \quad \mathbf{z}_{\text{text}} \in \mathbb{R}^{B \times 1024}
```
### Gated fusion (separate gates for query and gallery)
```math
\mathbf{q} = \sigma(\alpha_q) \cdot \mathbf{d}_{\text{img}} + \bigl(1 - \sigma(\alpha_q)\bigr) \cdot \mathbf{d}_{\text{txt}} \qquad \text{(query branch)}
```
```math
\mathbf{g} = \sigma(\alpha_g) \cdot \mathbf{s}_{\text{img}} + \bigl(1 - \sigma(\alpha_g)\bigr) \cdot \mathbf{s}_{\text{txt}} \qquad \text{(gallery branch)}
```
- `α_q, α_g` — separate learnable scalars in logit-space, init `σ(α) ≈ 0.7`
- `σ` — sigmoid function
- `d_img, s_img ∈ ^{B×512}` — DINOv3+MONA → projection(1024→512)
- `d_txt, s_txt ∈ ^{B×512}` — fused text embeddings (TextFusionMLP → 512)
- For satellite images without captions: `s_txt = None → g = s_img`
### Adaptation methods
| Method | Applied to | Where | Params |
|--------|-----------|-------|--------|
| **MONA** (CVPR 2025) | DINOv3 ViT-L/16 (shared) | After MSA and MLP in each of 24 blocks | 6.85M |
| **LoRA** (rank=4) | DGTRS-CLIP text encoder | Q and V projections in all 12 blocks | 147K |
| **Projection** | After DINOv3 CLS output | Linear(1024→512) | 525K |
**MONA adapter** (per block):
```math
\mathbf{x} \leftarrow \mathbf{x} + \text{Up}_{64 \to 1024}\!\Bigl(\text{GELU}\bigl(\text{MonaOp}\bigl(\text{Down}_{1024 \to 64}(\hat{\mathbf{x}})\bigr)\bigr)\Bigr)
```
where `x̂ = γ · LN(x) + γₓ · x` (scaled LayerNorm, `γ` init `10⁻⁶`, `γₓ` init `1`)
```math
\text{MonaOp}(\mathbf{x}) = \frac{\text{DWConv}_{3 \times 3}(\mathbf{x}) + \text{DWConv}_{5 \times 5}(\mathbf{x}) + \text{DWConv}_{7 \times 7}(\mathbf{x})}{3} + \mathbf{x}
```
MONA runs in **fp16** (AMP-native) with gradient checkpointing to save VRAM.
**Why MONA over LoRA for DINOv3:**
MONA uses multi-scale depthwise convolutions (3×3, 5×5, 7×7) that provide **spatial inductive bias**
critical for cross-view geo-localization. Drone images (oblique, 100-600m altitude) and satellite
images (nadir) exhibit a strong **geometric domain gap** — the same building looks spatially different
from each viewpoint. MONA's multi-scale spatial filters learn scale-invariant features to bridge
this gap, while LoRA (pure linear low-rank correction) would only handle style/distribution shifts.
| | MONA | LoRA (on DINOv3) |
|---|---|---|
| Inductive bias | 2D spatial (knows about pixel neighbors) | None (linear correction) |
| Best for | Geometric domain gap (aerial↔satellite) | Style/distribution shift |
| Params | 6.85M (bottleneck=64) | ~0.3M (rank=4) |
| Compute | Heavier (192 conv ops per forward) | Light |
| CVGL fit | Strong (multi-scale spatial adaptation) | Weak (no spatial awareness) |
**LoRA** (per DGTRS-CLIP attention layer):
```math
\mathbf{Q}' = \mathbf{Q} + \frac{\alpha}{r} \cdot \mathbf{x} \mathbf{A}_Q^T \mathbf{B}_Q^T, \qquad \mathbf{V}' = \mathbf{V} + \frac{\alpha}{r} \cdot \mathbf{x} \mathbf{A}_V^T \mathbf{B}_V^T
```
where `A ∈ ^{r×d}`, `B ∈ ^{d×r}`, `r = 4`. LoRA is appropriate for the text encoder since
text has no spatial structure — the adaptation needed is purely semantic/distributional.
### Projection head (DINOv3 1024 → 512)
```math
\mathbf{h} = \text{Linear}_{1024 \to 512}\!\bigl(\text{CLS}_{\text{DINOv3}}\bigr)
```
Reduces the retrieval space from DINOv3 native 1024-dim to 512-dim. Benefits:
- Smaller similarity matrix in InfoNCE (`B×B` at 512 vs 1024)
- TextFusionMLP outputs 512 instead of 1024 (fewer params: 1.5M vs 3.4M)
- Shared projection for both drone and satellite branches
### Pair formation and negative sampling
The dataset provides only **positive pairs** — each entry maps one drone image to its
matching satellite crop(s). Negative pairs are **not** stored explicitly; instead, they
are constructed automatically inside each training batch via the InfoNCE loss:
```
Batch (B = 8):
drone_0 ↔ sat_0 ← positive (from dataset)
drone_1 ↔ sat_1 ← positive
...
drone_7 ↔ sat_7 ← positive
Similarity matrix B×B:
sat_0 sat_1 ... sat_7
q_0 [ pos neg ... neg ] ← CE target = 0
q_1 [ neg pos ... neg ] ← CE target = 1
...
q_7 [ neg neg ... pos ] ← CE target = 7
```
- **Positives:** diagonal `sim[i, i]` — correct drone-satellite pair
- **Negatives:** off-diagonal `sim[i, j≠i]` — other satellite images in the batch (in-batch negatives)
- At `batch_size=8`: 1 positive + 7 in-batch negatives per query
- No hard-negative mining — negatives are random within the batch
- Larger batch → more negatives → harder contrastive task
Each drone image may have multiple satellite candidates (with distance-based weights).
At training time, one satellite crop is sampled per drone (weighted if semi-positive).
### Loss function
Symmetric InfoNCE with learnable temperature (CLIP-style `logit_scale`):
```math
\mathcal{L} = w_{q \to g} \cdot \mathcal{L}_{q \to g} + w_{g \to q} \cdot \mathcal{L}_{g \to q}
```
```math
\mathcal{L}_{q \to g} = \text{CrossEntropy}\!\left(\frac{\hat{\mathbf{q}} \cdot \hat{\mathbf{g}}^T}{\tau},\; \text{targets}\right), \qquad \mathcal{L}_{g \to q} = \text{CrossEntropy}\!\left(\frac{\hat{\mathbf{g}} \cdot \hat{\mathbf{q}}^T}{\tau},\; \text{targets}\right)
```
- `τ = 1 / exp(logit_scale)` — learnable scalar, clamped `τ ∈ [0.01, 0.5]`, init `τ₀ = 0.07`
- `w_{q→g} = 0.6`, `w_{g→q} = 0.4`
- `targets = [0, 1, 2, ..., B1]` — positives on diagonal
- label smoothing `= 0.1`
Loss and adapters run in **fp32** (AMP autocast disabled) to prevent gradient overflow.
### Gradient checkpointing
Gradient checkpointing trades compute for VRAM by recomputing activations during
backward instead of storing them. Enabled by default (`gradient_checkpointing=True`).
| Component | Without checkpointing | With checkpointing |
|-----------|:---:|:---:|
| DINOv3 (24 blocks) | stores all 24 block activations | recomputes on backward |
| DGTRS-CLIP (12 blocks) | stores all 12 block activations | recomputes on backward |
| **Max batch_size** (RTX 4090, shared encoder) | **8** | **24** |
| Speed penalty | — | ~20-30% slower per step |
VRAM tested on RTX 4090 (24 GB) with shared DINOv3 WEB + DGTRS-CLIP + text:
| `batch_size` | Peak VRAM | Status |
|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| 16 | 14.7 GB | OK |
| 24 | 20.3 GB | OK (recommended) |
| 32 | >24 GB | OOM |
### Gradient accumulation
Gradient accumulation emulates a larger effective batch without extra memory:
```
effective_batch_size = batch_size × grad_accum_steps
```
| Setting | `batch_size` | `grad_accum_steps` | Effective batch | In-batch negatives |
|---------|:---:|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| Default | 24 | 1 | 24 | 23 |
| Large effective batch | 24 | 4 | 96 | 23 per micro-batch |
**Note:** gradient accumulation averages gradients across micro-batches, but each
micro-batch still only sees `batch_size` in-batch negatives. To increase the number
of negatives per forward pass, increase `batch_size` directly (requires more VRAM).
```bash
# Example: effective batch of 96 with gradient accumulation
python -m src.training.train_gtauav --config conf/gtauav_balanced.gin \
--filter-meta meta/seg_filter.json --batch-size 24 --grad-accum 4
```
### Metrics
| Metric | Formula | Direction |
|--------|---------|-----------|
| **R@K** (Recall at K) | fraction of queries where correct gallery is in top-K | drone → satellite (primary) |
| **Delta R@1** | R@1(with_text) R@1(baseline) | higher = text helps |
Reported: R@1, R@5, R@10 for both q→g and g→q directions.
### Optimizer & scheduler
```
Optimizer: AdamW
- MONA adapters, TextFusionMLP, gate α_q, gate α_g, logit_scale:
lr = 1e-4, weight_decay = 1e-4
- LoRA adapters (DGTRS-CLIP text encoder):
lr = 1e-5 (10× lower, --text-lr-factor 0.1)
Scheduler: Linear warmup (2 epochs) + cosine annealing
- Per-step (not per-epoch)
- warmup: lr linearly ramps from 0 to lr_max over warmup_steps
- cosine: lr decays from lr_max to 0 over remaining steps
Gradient clipping: max_norm = 1.0
Mixed precision: AMP fp16 for model forward, fp32 for loss
```
### Augmentations
| Transform | Drone (train) | Satellite (train) | Eval |
|-----------|:---:|:---:|:---:|
| RandomResizedCrop(256, scale=0.71.0) | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Resize(256) + CenterCrop(256) | — | — | ✓ |
| RandomHorizontalFlip(0.5) | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| RandomRotation(15°) | ✓ | — | — |
| ColorJitter(0.3, 0.3, 0.2, 0.1) | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| RandomGrayscale(0.05) | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| GaussianBlur(k=3, σ=0.12.0) | ✓ | — | — |
| ImageNet Normalize | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
### Model summary
| Component | Params | Trainable | Notes |
|-----------|--------|-----------|-------|
| DINOv3 ViT-L/16 WEB (shared) | 303M | frozen | single encoder for drone + satellite |
| MONA adapters (shared, fp16) | 6.85M | 6.85M | 2 per block × 24 blocks, bottleneck=64 |
| Image projection | 525K | 525K | Linear(1024→512) after DINOv3 CLS |
| DGTRS-CLIP ViT-L-14 (text) | 124M | frozen | backbone weights frozen |
| LoRA adapters (text) | 147K | 147K | Q+V, rank=4, 12 blocks |
| TextFusionMLP (shared) | 1.5M | 1.5M | Linear(2304,512) + GELU + Linear(512,512) |
| GatedFusion α_q + α_g | 2 | 2 | separate gate scalars |
| logit_scale | 1 | 1 | learnable temperature |
| **Total (shared)** | **436M** | **9.0M (2.06%)** | retrieval dim = 512 |
> **Asymmetric mode** (`--shared-encoder false`): uses separate DINOv3 WEB (drone) + DINOv3 SAT
> (satellite) encoders with independent MONA adapters. Requires ~4-5 GB more VRAM.
## Experiments
### V3 — GTA-UAV + DINOv3 + DGTRS-CLIP (active)
**Dataset:** GTA-UAV-LR (33K drone + 14K satellite, GTA V synthetic)
- RGB: `/home/servml/Документы/datasets/GTA-UAV-LR/`
- Captions: `/home/servml/Документы/datasets/GTA-UAV-LR-captions/` (40K JSON, 3-paragraph VLM)
- Segmentation: `/home/servml/Документы/datasets/GTA-UAV-LR-aug/` (17 classes)
- Seg filter: 37,498 passed / 10,905 excluded (>=90% background+water)
- Split: 80/20 random (26,966 train / 6,742 test → 24,891/6,252 after seg filter)
### V2 — UAV-GeoLoc + GeoRSCLIP (legacy)
Single backbone with template captions.
```
Query: drone_img + caption -> GeoRSCLIP -> GatedFusion -> query
Gallery: sat_img -> GeoRSCLIP -> gallery
```
**Dataset:** UAV-GeoLoc Terrain split (206K train queries)
## Structure
```
caption-test/
├── conf/ # Gin configs
│ ├── gtauav_balanced.gin # GTA-UAV with text (10 epochs, v3)
│ ├── gtauav_baseline.gin # GTA-UAV baseline, no text (v3)
│ ├── gtauav_text_heavy.gin # GTA-UAV text-heavy gate=0.3 (v3)
│ ├── gtauav_image_heavy.gin # GTA-UAV image-heavy gate=0.9 (v3)
│ ├── balanced.gin # UAV-GeoLoc with text (v2)
│ ├── baseline_no_text.gin # UAV-GeoLoc baseline (v2)
│ └── text_heavy.gin # UAV-GeoLoc text-heavy (v2)
├── nn_models/ # Pre-trained checkpoints (v3, gitignored)
│ ├── DINO_WEB/ # DINOv3 ViT-L/16 LVD-1689M (.pth)
│ ├── DINO_SAT/ # DINOv3 ViT-L/16 SAT-493M (.safetensors)
│ └── LRSCLIP/ # DGTRS-CLIP ViT-L-14 (.pt)
├── meta/ # Generated metadata
│ ├── train_80.json # 80% train split (26,966 pairs)
│ ├── test_20.json # 20% test split (6,742 pairs)
│ └── seg_filter.json # Segmentation filter results
├── scripts/
│ ├── make_split.py # Create 80/20 train/test split
│ ├── filter_segmentation.py # Exclude 90%+ background/water images
│ ├── compare_runs.py # Delta R@1 comparison report
│ └── generate_captions.py # Offline caption generation
├── src/
│ ├── datasets/
│ │ ├── gtauav_dataset.py # GTA-UAV-LR loader + L1/L2/L3 parsing (v3)
│ │ └── visloc_with_captions.py # UAV-GeoLoc loader (v2)
│ ├── models/
│ │ ├── dgtrs/ # Official DGTRS-CLIP text encoder (Apache-2.0)
│ │ │ ├── model.py # DGTRSTextEncoder, build_model, tokenize
│ │ │ ├── simple_tokenizer.py # BPE tokenizer (248 tokens)
│ │ │ └── bpe_simple_vocab_16e6.txt.gz
│ │ ├── asymmetric_encoder.py # DINOv3 + DGTRS + GatedFusion (v3)
│ │ └── dual_encoder.py # GeoRSCLIP + GatedFusion (v2)
│ ├── losses/
│ │ └── multi_infonce.py # InfoNCE with learnable temperature
│ ├── training/
│ │ ├── train_gtauav.py # Training loop GTA-UAV (v3)
│ │ ├── train.py # Training loop UAV-GeoLoc (v2)
│ │ ├── trackers.py # Unified tracker: W&B + TensorBoard
│ │ ├── grad_monitor.py # Gradient norm monitoring per group
│ │ ├── gradcam.py # Grad-CAM visualization for DINOv3
│ │ ├── profiling.py # PyTorch Profiler + torchinfo summary
│ │ └── plot_metrics.py # Seaborn/matplotlib metric plots
│ └── eval/
│ └── evaluate.py # R@K metrics, Delta R@1
└── checkpoints/ # GeoRSCLIP RS5M_ViT-B-32.pt (v2)
```
## Prerequisites
```
torch>=2.0
safetensors
coloredlogs
tqdm
ftfy
regex
gin-config
Pillow
numpy
pandas
matplotlib
seaborn
```
### Optional (for extended diagnostics)
```
wandb # Weights & Biases experiment tracking
torchinfo # Model summary tables
tensorboard # TensorBoard logging (included with torch)
```
## Workflow (V3 — GTA-UAV)
### 1. Create 80/20 split and filter segmentation
```bash
python -m scripts.make_split --output-dir meta
python -m scripts.filter_segmentation --output meta/seg_filter.json
```
### 2. Train with gin configs (recommended)
```bash
# Baseline (no text, 10 epochs)
python -m src.training.train_gtauav --config conf/gtauav_baseline.gin \
--filter-meta meta/seg_filter.json
# With captions (L1/L2/L3, 10 epochs)
python -m src.training.train_gtauav --config conf/gtauav_balanced.gin \
--filter-meta meta/seg_filter.json
# Text-heavy (gate=0.3, 70% text weight)
python -m src.training.train_gtauav --config conf/gtauav_text_heavy.gin \
--filter-meta meta/seg_filter.json
```
### 3. Train without gin (CLI-only)
```bash
python -m src.training.train_gtauav --baseline --filter-meta meta/seg_filter.json
python -m src.training.train_gtauav --filter-meta meta/seg_filter.json
```
### 4. Enable diagnostics
```bash
# W&B + Grad-CAM + PyTorch Profiler
python -m src.training.train_gtauav --config conf/gtauav_balanced.gin \
--filter-meta meta/seg_filter.json --wandb --gradcam --profile
# Gin parameter overrides from CLI
python -m src.training.train_gtauav --config conf/gtauav_balanced.gin \
--filter-meta meta/seg_filter.json \
--gin-param 'TrainConfigGTAUAV.batch_size=16' 'TrainConfigGTAUAV.epochs=20'
```
CLI flags (`--wandb`, `--gradcam`, `--profile`, `--epochs`, etc.) take priority over gin config.
### 5. Resume from checkpoint
```bash
python -m src.training.train_gtauav --resume out/gtauav/with_text/ckpt_epoch004.pt \
--filter-meta meta/seg_filter.json
```
### 6. Compare and get verdict
```bash
python -m scripts.compare_runs \
--baseline_report out/gtauav/baseline/eval_report.json \
--full_report out/gtauav/with_text/eval_report.json \
--output out/gtauav/comparison.md
```
### 7. View TensorBoard
```bash
tensorboard --logdir out/gtauav/with_text/tb_logs
```
## Diagnostics & Visualization
| Tool | Flag | Output | Description |
|------|------|--------|-------------|
| **TensorBoard** | `--use-tb` (default on) | `{out}/tb_logs/` | Scalars, histograms, images |
| **W&B** | `--wandb` | cloud | Full experiment tracking, Grad-CAM images |
| **Grad-CAM** | `--gradcam` | `{out}/gradcam/` | DINOv3 attention heatmaps (drone + satellite) |
| **PyTorch Profiler** | `--profile` | `{out}/profiler/` | Chrome trace, CUDA timeline, memory |
| **torchinfo** | auto | `{out}/model_summary.txt` | Layer-by-layer parameter table |
| **Gradient norms** | `--log-grad-norms` (default on) | TB/W&B | Per-group: MONA, LoRA, MLP, gates, tau |
| **CSV (per-batch)** | auto | `{out}/logs/train_batches.csv` | Loss, tau, gates, lr for every batch |
| **CSV (per-epoch)** | auto | `{out}/logs/train.csv, val.csv` | Epoch averages + seaborn PNG plots |
## Decision rule
| Delta R@1 (drone→satellite) | Verdict |
|---|---|
| >= +3% | **PASS** — captions informative, proceed to NADEZHDA teacher |
| +1% to +3% | MARGINAL — add VLM refinement, re-run |
| 0 to +1% | WEAK — redesign caption pipeline |
| < 0 | HARMFUL — critical bug |
## Code style
- `from __future__ import annotations` everywhere
- Type hints on all signatures
- Google-style docstrings
- English-only comments