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X-LXMERT: Paint, Caption and Answer Questions with Multi-Modal Transformers

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Cho, Jaemin, Lu, Jiasen, Schwenk, Dustin, Hajishirzi, Hannaneh, Kembhavi, Aniruddha·2020·Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)

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Mirroring the success of masked language models, vision-and-language counterparts like VILBERT, LXMERT and UNITER have achieved state of the art performance on a variety of multimodal discriminative tasks like visual question answering and visual grounding.Recent work has also successfully adapted such models towards the generative task of image captioning.This begs the question: Can these models go the other way and generate images from pieces of text?Our analysis of a popular representative from this model family -LXMERT -finds that it is unable to generate rich and semantically meaningful imagery with its current training setup.We introduce X-LXMERT, an extension to LXMERT with training refinements including: discretizing visual representations, using uniform masking with a large range of masking ratios and aligning the right pre-training datasets to the right objectives which enables it to paint.X-LXMERT's image generation capabilities rival state of the art generative models while its question answering and captioning abilities remains comparable to LXMERT.Finally, we demonstrate the generality of these training refinements by adding image generation capabilities into UNITER to produce X-UNITER.

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Authors
Cho, J., Lu, J., Schwenk, D., Hajishirzi, H., & Kembhavi, A.
Affiliations
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Venue
Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Published
2020
Pages
8785-8805
OpenAlex
W3104152799
Cited by
99
References
80
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 20 · 2023: 23 · 2022: 19 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 1
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5.27
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conference paper
Language
en
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cc-by
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  • Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • arXiv (Cornell University) (submittedVersion)
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
Funders
Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Multimodal Machine Learning Applications
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Generative Adversarial Networks and Image Synthesis
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition › Advanced Neural Network Applications
Keywords
text-to-image generation, LXMERT, vision-language transformers, visual question answering, image captioning, visual grounding

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