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Yaowei Li

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arXiv2023

Unify, Align and Refine: Multi-Level Semantic Alignment for Radiology Report Generation

Automatic radiology report generation has attracted enormous research interest due to its practical value in reducing the workload of radiologists. However, simultaneously establishing global correspondences between the image (e.g., Chest X-ray) and its related report and local alignments between image patches and keywords remains challenging. To this end, we propose an Unify, Align and then Refine (UAR) approach to learn multi-level cross-modal alignments and introduce three novel modules: Latent Space Unifier (LSU), Cross-modal Representation Aligner (CRA) and Text-to-Image Refiner (TIR). Specifically, LSU unifies multimodal data into discrete tokens, making it flexible to learn common knowledge among modalities with a shared network. The modality-agnostic CRA learns discriminative features via a set of orthonormal basis and a dual-gate mechanism first and then globally aligns visual and textual representations under a triplet contrastive loss. TIR boosts token-level local alignment via calibrating text-to-image attention with a learnable mask. Additionally, we design a two-stage training procedure to make UAR gradually grasp cross-modal alignments at different levels, which imitates radiologists' workflow: writing sentence by sentence first and then checking word by word. Extensive experiments and analyses on IU-Xray and MIMIC-CXR benchmark datasets demonstrate the superiority of our UAR against varied state-of-the-art methods.

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arXiv2023

Efficient Multimodal Fusion via Interactive Prompting

Large-scale pre-training has brought unimodal fields such as computer vision and natural language processing to a new era. Following this trend, the size of multi-modal learning models constantly increases, leading to an urgent need to reduce the massive computational cost of finetuning these models for downstream tasks. In this paper, we propose an efficient and flexible multimodal fusion method, namely PMF, tailored for fusing unimodally pre-trained transformers. Specifically, we first present a modular multimodal fusion framework that exhibits high flexibility and facilitates mutual interactions among different modalities. In addition, we disentangle vanilla prompts into three types in order to learn different optimizing objectives for multimodal learning. It is also worth noting that we propose to add prompt vectors only on the deep layers of the unimodal transformers, thus significantly reducing the training memory usage. Experiment results show that our proposed method achieves comparable performance to several other multimodal finetuning methods with less than 3% trainable parameters and up to 66% saving of training memory usage.

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arXiv2023

SSVMR: Saliency-based Self-training for Video-Music Retrieval

With the rise of short videos, the demand for selecting appropriate background music (BGM) for a video has increased significantly, video-music retrieval (VMR) task gradually draws much attention by research community. As other cross-modal learning tasks, existing VMR approaches usually attempt to measure the similarity between the video and music in the feature space. However, they (1) neglect the inevitable label noise; (2) neglect to enhance the ability to capture critical video clips. In this paper, we propose a novel saliency-based self-training framework, which is termed SSVMR. Specifically, we first explore to fully make use of the information containing in the training dataset by applying a semi-supervised method to suppress the adverse impact of label noise problem, where a self-training approach is adopted. In addition, we propose to capture the saliency of the video by mixing two videos at span level and preserving the locality of the two original videos. Inspired by back translation in NLP, we also conduct back retrieval to obtain more training data. Experimental results on MVD dataset show that our SSVMR achieves the state-of-the-art performance by a large margin, obtaining a relative improvement of 34.8% over the previous best model in terms of R@1.

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