Cited by 37Multimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsAdvanced Image and Video Retrieval TechniquesImage Retrieval and Classification Techniques

GilBERT: Generative Vision-Language Pre-Training for Image-Text Retrieval

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Hong, Weixiang, Ji, Kaixiang, Liu, Jiajia, Wang, Jian, Chen, Jingdong, Chu, Wei·2021·Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Abstract

Given a text/image query, image-text retrieval aims to find the relevant items in the database. Recently, visual-linguistic pre-training (VLP) methods have demonstrated promising accuracy on image-text retrieval and other visual-linguistic tasks. These VLP methods are typically pre-trained on a large amount of image-text pairs, then fine-tuned on various downstream tasks. Nevertheless, due to the natural modality incompleteness in image-text retrieval, i.e., the query is either image or text rather than an image-text pair, the naive application of VLP to image-text retrieval results in significant inefficiency. Moreover, existing VLP methods cannot extract comparable representations for a single-modal query and multi-modal database items. In this work, we propose a generative visual-linguistic pre-training approach, termed as GilBERT, to simultaneously learn generic representations of image-text data and complete the missing modality for incomplete pairs. In testing phase, the proposed GilBERT facilitates efficient vector-based retrieval by providing unified feature embedding for query and database items. Moreover, the generative training not only makes GilBERT compatible with non-parallel text/image corpus, but also enables GilBERT to model the image-text relationships without suffering massive randomly-sampled negative samples, leading to superior experimental performances. Extensive experiments demonstrate the advantages of GilBERT in image-text retrieval, in terms of both efficiency and accuracy.

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Authors
Hong, W., Ji, K., Liu, J., Wang, J., Chen, J., & Chu, W.
Affiliations
Ant Group (China) (CN)
Venue
Proceedings of the 44th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
Publisher
ACM
Published
2021-07-11
Pages
1379-1388
OpenAlex
W3182937942
Cited by
37
References
67
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 12 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 1
FWCI
2.21
Type
conference paper
Language
en
Open access
Locations
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Image and Video Retrieval Techniques
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
Keywords
image-text retrieval, generative pre-training

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