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VSE++: Improving Visual-Semantic Embeddings with Hard Negatives

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arxiv 1707.05612 v4 pith:BWYZ5PAJ submitted 2017-07-18 cs.LG cs.CLcs.CV

VSE++: Improving Visual-Semantic Embeddings with Hard Negatives

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We present a new technique for learning visual-semantic embeddings for cross-modal retrieval. Inspired by hard negative mining, the use of hard negatives in structured prediction, and ranking loss functions, we introduce a simple change to common loss functions used for multi-modal embeddings. That, combined with fine-tuning and use of augmented data, yields significant gains in retrieval performance. We showcase our approach, VSE++, on MS-COCO and Flickr30K datasets, using ablation studies and comparisons with existing methods. On MS-COCO our approach outperforms state-of-the-art methods by 8.8% in caption retrieval and 11.3% in image retrieval (at R@1).

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