2020/04/02 by Bicheng Xu, Leonid Sigal, Xu, Bicheng +1
Computer Science · #Advanced Neural Network Applications #Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Human Pose and Action Recognition #Multimodal Machine Learning Applications #cs.CV
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2004.00760
openalex publication_date 2020/04/02 · arxiv created 2020/04/15 · arxiv updated 2020/04/17 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Sequence decoding is one of the core components of most visual-lingual models. However, typical neural decoders when faced with decoding multiple, possibly correlated, sequences of tokens resort to simple independent decoding schemes. In this paper, we introduce a consistent multiple sequence decoding architecture, which is while relatively simple, is general and allows for consistent and simultaneous decoding of an arbitrary number of sequences. Our formulation utilizes a consistency fusion mechanism, implemented using message passing in a Graph Neural Network (GNN), to aggregate context from related decoders. This context is then utilized as a secondary input, in addition to previously generated output, to make a prediction at a given step of decoding. Self-attention, in the GNN, is used to modulate the fusion mechanism locally at each node and each step in the decoding process. We show the efficacy of our consistent multiple sequence decoder on the task of dense relational image captioning and illustrate state-of-the-art performance (+ 5.2% in mAP) on the task. More importantly, we illustrate that the decoded sentences, for the same regions, are more consistent (improvement of 9.5%), while across images and regions maintain diversity.