Xu Yang


2023

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Transforming Visual Scene Graphs to Image Captions
Xu Yang | Jiawei Peng | Zihua Wang | Haiyang Xu | Qinghao Ye | Chenliang Li | Songfang Huang | Fei Huang | Zhangzikang Li | Yu Zhang
Proceedings of the 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)

We propose to TransForm Scene Graphs into more descriptive Captions (TFSGC). In TFSGC, we apply multi-head attention (MHA) to design the Graph Neural Network (GNN) for embedding scene graphs. After embedding, different graph embeddings contain diverse specific knowledge for generating the words with different part-of-speech, e.g., object/attribute embedding is good for generating nouns/adjectives. Motivated by this, we design a Mixture-of-Expert (MOE)-based decoder, where each expert is built on MHA, for discriminating the graph embeddings to generate different kinds of words. Since both the encoder and decoder are built based on the MHA, as a result, we construct a simple and homogeneous encoder-decoder unlike the previous heterogeneous ones which usually apply Fully-Connected-based GNN and LSTM-based decoder. The homogeneous architecture enables us to unify the training configuration of the whole model instead of specifying different training strategies for diverse sub-networks as in the heterogeneous pipeline, which releases the training difficulty. Extensive experiments on the MS-COCO captioning benchmark validate the effectiveness of our TFSGC. The code is in: https://anonymous.4open.science/r/ACL23_TFSGC.

2014

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The SAS Statistical Machine Translation System for WAT 2014
Rui Wang | Xu Yang | Yan Gao
Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Asian Translation (WAT2014)