Incorporating Probing Signals into Multimodal Machine Translation via Visual Question-Answering Pairs

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.17133v1
• Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2023 04:13:49 GMT
• Title: Incorporating Probing Signals into Multimodal Machine Translation via Visual Question-Answering Pairs
• Authors: Yuxin Zuo, Bei Li, Chuanhao Lv, Tong Zheng, Tong Xiao, Jingbo Zhu
• Abstract summary: multimodal machine translation (MMT) systems exhibit decreased sensitivity to visual information when text inputs are complete. A novel approach is proposed to generate parallel Visual Question-Answering (VQA) style pairs from the source text. An MMT-VQA multitask learning framework is introduced to incorporate explicit probing signals from the dataset into the MMT training process.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper presents an in-depth study of multimodal machine translation (MMT), examining the prevailing understanding that MMT systems exhibit decreased sensitivity to visual information when text inputs are complete. Instead, we attribute this phenomenon to insufficient cross-modal interaction, rather than image information redundancy. A novel approach is proposed to generate parallel Visual Question-Answering (VQA) style pairs from the source text, fostering more robust cross-modal interaction. Using Large Language Models (LLMs), we explicitly model the probing signal in MMT to convert it into VQA-style data to create the Multi30K-VQA dataset. An MMT-VQA multitask learning framework is introduced to incorporate explicit probing signals from the dataset into the MMT training process. Experimental results on two widely-used benchmarks demonstrate the effectiveness of this novel approach. Our code and data would be available at: \url{https://github.com/libeineu/MMT-VQA}.

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