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Auto-Parsing Network for Image Captioning and Visual Question Answering

Published in ICCV, 2021

Abstract

We propose an Auto-Parsing Network (APN) to discover and exploit the input data’s hidden tree structures for improving the effectiveness of the Transformer-based vision-language systems. Specifically, we impose a Probabilistic Graphical Model (PGM) parameterized by the attention operations on each self-attention layer to incorporate sparse assumption. We use this PGM to softly segment an input sequence into a few clusters where each cluster can be treated as the parent of the inside entities. By stacking these PGM constrained self-attention layers, the clusters in a lower layer compose into a new sequence, and the PGM in a higher layer will further segment this sequence. Iteratively, a sparse tree can be implicitly parsed, and this tree’s hierarchical knowledge is incorporated into the transformed embeddings, which can be used for solving the target vision-language tasks. Specifically, we showcase that our APN can strengthen Transformer based networks in two major vision-language tasks: Captioning and Visual Question Answering. Also, a PGM probability-based parsing algorithm is developed by which we can discover what the hidden structure of input is during the inference.

Recommended citation: Xu Yang*, Chongyang Gao*, Hanwang Zhang, and Jianfei Cai. Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV), 2021, pp. 2197-2207.