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Adversarial reconstruction for Multi-modal Machine Translation

Computation and Language 2019-10-08 v1

Abstract

Even with the growing interest in problems at the intersection of Computer Vision and Natural Language, grounding (i.e. identifying) the components of a structured description in an image still remains a challenging task. This contribution aims to propose a model which learns grounding by reconstructing the visual features for the Multi-modal translation task. Previous works have partially investigated standard approaches such as regression methods to approximate the reconstruction of a visual input. In this paper, we propose a different and novel approach which learns grounding by adversarial feedback. To do so, we modulate our network following the recent promising adversarial architectures and evaluate how the adversarial response from a visual reconstruction as an auxiliary task helps the model in its learning. We report the highest scores in term of BLEU and METEOR metrics on the different datasets.

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@article{arxiv.1910.02766,
  title  = {Adversarial reconstruction for Multi-modal Machine Translation},
  author = {Jean-Benoit Delbrouck and Stéphane Dupont},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1910.02766},
  year   = {2019}
}
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