Title
When Pairs Meet Triplets: Improving Low-Resource Captioning via Multi-Objective Optimization
Abstract
AbstractImage captioning for low-resource languages has attracted much attention recently. Researchers propose to augment the low-resource caption dataset into (image, rich-resource language, and low-resource language) triplets and develop the dual attention mechanism to exploit the existence of triplets in training to improve the performance. However, datasets in triplet form are usually small due to their high collecting cost. On the other hand, there are already many large-scale datasets, which contain one pair from the triplet, such as caption datasets in the rich-resource language and translation datasets from the rich-resource language to the low-resource language. In this article, we revisit the caption-translation pipeline of the translation-based approach to utilize not only the triplet dataset but also large-scale paired datasets in training. The caption-translation pipeline is composed of two models, one caption model of the rich-resource language and one translation model from the rich-resource language to the low-resource language. Unfortunately, it is not trivial to fully benefit from incorporating both the triplet dataset and paired datasets into the pipeline, due to the gap between the training and testing phases and the instability in the training process. We propose to jointly optimize the two models of the pipeline in an end-to-end manner to bridge the training and testing gap, and introduce two auxiliary training objectives to stabilize the training process. Experimental results show that the proposed method improves significantly over the state-of-the-art methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1145/3492325
ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Image captioning, low-resource, paired dataset, triplet dataset, bridge the gap, auxiliary training objective
Journal
18
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
1551-6857
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yike Wu101.01
Shiwan Zhao231817.41
Ying Zhang316325.25
Xiaojie Yuan400.34
Zhong Su52282110.39