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A Better Variant of Self-Critical Sequence Training

Ruotian Luo

2020-03-22Image Captioning
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Abstract

In this work, we present a simple yet better variant of Self-Critical Sequence Training. We make a simple change in the choice of baseline function in REINFORCE algorithm. The new baseline can bring better performance with no extra cost, compared to the greedy decoding baseline.

Results

TaskDatasetMetricValueModel
Image CaptioningCOCO CaptionsBLEU-180.7Transformer_NSC
Image CaptioningCOCO CaptionsBLEU-265.6Transformer_NSC
Image CaptioningCOCO CaptionsBLEU-351.3Transformer_NSC
Image CaptioningCOCO CaptionsBLEU-439.4Transformer_NSC
Image CaptioningCOCO CaptionsCIDER129.6Transformer_NSC
Image CaptioningCOCO CaptionsMETEOR28.9Transformer_NSC
Image CaptioningCOCO CaptionsROUGE-L58.7Transformer_NSC
Image CaptioningCOCO CaptionsSPICE22.8Transformer_NSC

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