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[2004.06165] Oscar: Object-Semantics Aligned Pre-training for Vision-Language Tasks

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Large-scale pre-training methods of learning cross-modal representations on image-text pairs are becoming popular for vision-language tasks. While existing methods simply concatenate image region features and text features as input to the model to be pre-trained and use self-attention to learn image-text semantic alignments in a brute force manner, in this paper, we propose a new learning method Oscar (Object-Semantics Aligned Pre-training), which uses object tags detected in images as anchor points to significantly ease the learning of alignments. Our method is motivated by the observation that the salient objects in an image can be accurately detected, and are often mentioned in the paired text. We pre-train an Oscar model on the public corpus of 6.5 million text-image pairs, and fine-tune it on downstream tasks, creating new state-of-the-arts on six well-established vision-language understanding and generation tasks.

Oscar: Object-Semantics Aligned Pre-training for Vision-Language Tasks Xiujun Li♥♠ , Xi Yin♥ , Chunyuan Li♥ , Pengchuan Zhang♥ , Xiaowei Hu♥ , Lei Zhang♥ , Lijuan Wang♥ , Houdong Hu♥ , Li Dong♥ , Furu Wei♥ , Yejin Choi♠ , and Jianfeng Gao♥ ♥ ♠…

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