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Teaching Machines to Code: Neural Markup Generation with Visual Attention

Machine Learning 2018-06-19 v2 Computation and Language Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Neural and Evolutionary Computing

Abstract

We present a neural transducer model with visual attention that learns to generate LaTeX markup of a real-world math formula given its image. Applying sequence modeling and transduction techniques that have been very successful across modalities such as natural language, image, handwriting, speech and audio; we construct an image-to-markup model that learns to produce syntactically and semantically correct LaTeX markup code over 150 words long and achieves a BLEU score of 89%; improving upon the previous state-of-art for the Im2Latex problem. We also demonstrate with heat-map visualization how attention helps in interpreting the model and can pinpoint (detect and localize) symbols on the image accurately despite having been trained without any bounding box data.

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@article{arxiv.1802.05415,
  title  = {Teaching Machines to Code: Neural Markup Generation with Visual Attention},
  author = {Sumeet S. Singh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1802.05415},
  year   = {2018}
}

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For datasets, visualizations and ancillary material see: https://untrix.github.io/i2l . For source code go to: https://github.com/untrix/im2latex

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