Cited by 49Multimodal Machine Learning ApplicationsTopic ModelingDomain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning

Scheduled Sampling in Vision-Language Pretraining with Decoupled Encoder-Decoder Network

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Li, Yehao, Pan, Yingwei, Yao, Ting, Chen, Jingwen, Mei, Tao·2021·Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence

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Despite having impressive vision-language (VL) pretraining with BERT-based encoder for VL understanding, the pretraining of a universal encoder-decoder for both VL understanding and generation remains challenging. The difficulty originates from the inherently different peculiarities of the two disciplines, e.g., VL understanding tasks capitalize on the unrestricted message passing across modalities, while generation tasks only employ visual-to-textual message passing. In this paper, we start with a two-stream decoupled design of encoder-decoder structure, in which two decoupled cross-modal encoder and decoder are involved to separately perform each type of proxy tasks, for simultaneous VL understanding and generation pretraining. Moreover, for VL pretraining, the dominant way is to replace some input visual/word tokens with mask tokens and enforce the multi-modal encoder/decoder to reconstruct the original tokens, but no mask token is involved when fine-tuning on downstream tasks. As an alternative, we propose a primary scheduled sampling strategy that elegantly mitigates such discrepancy via pretraining encoder-decoder in a two-pass manner. Extensive experiments demonstrate the compelling generalizability of our pretrained encoder-decoder by fine-tuning on four VL understanding and generation downstream tasks. Source code is available at https://github.com/YehLi/TDEN.

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Authors
Li, Y., Pan, Y., Yao, T., Chen, J., & Mei, T.
Affiliations
  • Jingdong (China) (CN)
  • Sun Yat-sen University (CN)
Venue
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Published
2021-05-18
Volume
35
Issue
10
Pages
8518-8526
ISSN
  • 2159-5399 (ISSN-L)
  • 2374-3468
OpenAlex
W3175095612
Cited by
49
References
50
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 6 · 2024: 4 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 9
FWCI
3.43
Type
conference paper
Language
en
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  • Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (publishedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • AAAI Publications (The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Topic Modeling
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › Domain Adaptation and Few-Shot Learning
Keywords
vision-language pre-training, scheduled sampling, encoder-decoder architecture, visual language understanding, dual-stream architecture

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