Title
XGPT - Cross-modal Generative Pre-Training for Image Captioning.
Abstract
While many BERT-based cross-modal pre-trained models produce excellent results on downstream understanding tasks like image-text retrieval and VQA, they cannot be applied to generation tasks directly. In this paper, we propose XGPT, a new method of Cross-modal Generative Pre-Training for Image Captioning that is designed to pre-train text-to-image caption generators through three novel generation tasks, including Image-conditioned Masked Language Modeling (IMLM), Image-conditioned Denoising Autoencoding (IDA), and Text-conditioned Image Feature Generation (TIFG). As a result, the pre-trained XGPT can be fine-tuned without any task-specific architecture modifications to create state-of-the-art models for image captioning. Experiments show that XGPT obtains new state-of-the-art results on the benchmark datasets, including COCO Captions and Flickr30k Captions. We also use XGPT to generate new image captions as data augmentation for the image retrieval task and achieve significant improvement on all recall metrics.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1007/978-3-030-88480-2_63
NLPCC
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Qiaolin Xia1102.85
Haoyang Huang212.05
Nan Duan321345.87
Dongdong Zhang424128.73
Ji Lei500.34
Zhifang Sui617239.06
Cui Edward700.34
Bharti Taroon800.34
Ming Zhou94262251.74