Compound Tokens: Channel Fusion for Vision-Language Representation Learning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2212.01447v1
• Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2022 21:09:52 GMT
• Title: Compound Tokens: Channel Fusion for Vision-Language Representation Learning
• Authors: Maxwell Mbabilla Aladago and AJ Piergiovanni
• Abstract summary: We present an effective method for fusing visual-and-language representations for question answering tasks. By fusing on the channels, the model is able to more effectively align the tokens compared to standard methods. We demonstrate the effectiveness of compound tokens using an encoder-decoder vision-language model trained end-to-end in the open-vocabulary setting.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We present an effective method for fusing visual-and-language representations for several question answering tasks including visual question answering and visual entailment. In contrast to prior works that concatenate unimodal representations or use only cross-attention, we compose multimodal representations via channel fusion. By fusing on the channels, the model is able to more effectively align the tokens compared to standard methods. These multimodal representations, which we call compound tokens are generated with cross-attention transformer layers. First, vision tokens are used as queries to retrieve compatible text tokens through cross-attention. We then chain the vision tokens and the queried text tokens along the channel dimension. We call the resulting representations compound tokens. A second group of compound tokens are generated using an analogous process where the text tokens serve as queries to the cross-attention layer. We concatenate all the compound tokens for further processing with multimodal encoder. We demonstrate the effectiveness of compound tokens using an encoder-decoder vision-language model trained end-to-end in the open-vocabulary setting. Compound Tokens achieve highly competitive performance across a range of question answering tasks including GQA, VQA2.0, and SNLI-VE.

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