Cross-lingual Visual Pre-training for Multimodal Machine Translation
Conference/Workshop Publication
Abstract Pre-trained language models have been shown to improve performance in many natural language tasks substantially. Although the early focus of such models was single language pre-training, recent advances have resulted in cross-lingual and visual pre-training methods. In this paper, we combine these two approaches to learn visually-grounded cross-lingual representations. Specifically, we extend the translation language modelling (Lample and Conneau, 2019) with masked region classification and perform pre-training with three-way parallel vision & language corpora. We show that when fine-tuned for multimodal machine translation, these models obtain state-of-the-art performance. We also provide qualitative insights into the usefulness of the learned grounded representations

BibTeX
@inproceedings{caglayan2021eacl,
title={Cross-lingual Visual Pre-training for Multimodal Machine Translation},
author={Ozan Caglayan, Menekse Kuyu, Mustafa Sercan Amac, Pranava Madhyastha, Erkut Erdem, Aykut Erdem, Lucia Specia},
booktitle={The 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL 2021)},
year={2021}
}