Abstract
In Visual Question Answering (VQA), existing bilinear methods focus on the interaction between images and questions. As a result, the answers are either spliced into the questions or utilized as labels only for classification. On the other hand, trilinear models such as the CTI model efficiently utilize the inter-modality information between answers, questions, and images, while ignoring intra-modality information. Inspired by this observation, we propose a new trilinear interaction framework called MIRTT (Learning Multimodal Interaction Representations from Trilinear Transformers), incorporating the attention mechanisms for capturing inter-modality and intra-modality relationships. Moreover, we design a two-stage workflow where a bilinear model reduces the free-form, open-ended VQA problem into a multiple-choice VQA problem. Furthermore, to obtain accurate and generic multimodal representations, we pre-train MIRTT with masked language prediction. Our method achieves state-of-the-art performance on the Visual7W Telling task and VQA-1.0 Multiple Choice task and outperforms bilinear baselines on the VQA-2.0, TDIUC and GQA datasets.- Anthology ID:
- 2021.findings-emnlp.196
- Volume:
- Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021
- Month:
- November
- Year:
- 2021
- Address:
- Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
- Editors:
- Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
- Venue:
- Findings
- SIG:
- SIGDAT
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2280–2292
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2021.findings-emnlp.196
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2021.findings-emnlp.196
- Cite (ACL):
- Junjie Wang, Yatai Ji, Jiaqi Sun, Yujiu Yang, and Tetsuya Sakai. 2021. MIRTT: Learning Multimodal Interaction Representations from Trilinear Transformers for Visual Question Answering. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2021, pages 2280–2292, Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- MIRTT: Learning Multimodal Interaction Representations from Trilinear Transformers for Visual Question Answering (Wang et al., Findings 2021)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/proper-vol2-ingestion/2021.findings-emnlp.196.pdf
- Code
- iigroup/mirtt
- Data
- TDIUC, Visual Question Answering, Visual Question Answering v2.0, Visual7W