Non-Autoregressive Image Captioning with Counterfactuals-Critical Multi-Agent Learning
文献类型:会议论文
作者 | Guo LT(郭龙腾)1,2![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
出版日期 | 2020 |
会议日期 | 2021.01.07 |
会议地点 | 日本横滨 |
英文摘要 | Most image captioning models are autoregressive, i.e. they generate each word by conditioning on previously generated words, which leads to heavy latency during inference. Recently, non-autoregressive decoding has been proposed in machine translation to speed up the inference time by generating all words in parallel. Typically, these models use the word-level cross-entropy loss to optimize each word independently. However, such a learning process fails to consider the sentence-level consistency, thus resulting in inferior generation quality of these non-autoregressive models. In this paper, we propose a Non-Autoregressive Image Captioning (NAIC) model with a novel training paradigm: Counterfactuals-critical Multi-Agent Learning (CMAL). CMAL formulates NAIC as a multi-agent reinforcement learning system where positions in the target sequence are viewed as agents that learn to cooperatively maximize a sentence-level reward. Besides, we propose to utilize massive unlabeled images to boost captioning performance. Extensive experiments on MSCOCO image captioning benchmark show that our NAIC model achieves a performance comparable to state-of-the-art autoregressive models, while brings 13.9x decoding speedup. |
源URL | [http://ir.ia.ac.cn/handle/173211/44986] ![]() |
专题 | 自动化研究所_模式识别国家重点实验室_图像与视频分析团队 中国科学院自动化研究所 |
通讯作者 | Liu J(刘静) |
作者单位 | 1.School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences 2.National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Guo LT,Liu J,Zhu XX,et al. Non-Autoregressive Image Captioning with Counterfactuals-Critical Multi-Agent Learning[C]. 见:. 日本横滨. 2021.01.07. |
入库方式: OAI收割
来源:自动化研究所
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