Finding Structural Knowledge in Multimodal-BERT

Victor Milewski, Miryam de Lhoneux, Marie-Francine Moens


Abstract
In this work, we investigate the knowledge learned in the embeddings of multimodal-BERT models. More specifically, we probe their capabilities of storing the grammatical structure of linguistic data and the structure learned over objects in visual data. To reach that goal, we first make the inherent structure of language and visuals explicit by a dependency parse of the sentences that describe the image and by the dependencies between the object regions in the image, respectively. We call this explicit visual structure the scene tree, that is based on the dependency tree of the language description. Extensive probing experiments show that the multimodal-BERT models do not encode these scene trees.
Anthology ID:
2022.acl-long.388
Volume:
Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
Month:
May
Year:
2022
Address:
Dublin, Ireland
Editors:
Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
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ACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
5658–5671
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.388
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.388
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Cite (ACL):
Victor Milewski, Miryam de Lhoneux, and Marie-Francine Moens. 2022. Finding Structural Knowledge in Multimodal-BERT. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 5658–5671, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Finding Structural Knowledge in Multimodal-BERT (Milewski et al., ACL 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.388.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.388.mp4
Code
 vsjmilewski/multimodal-probes
Data
Flickr30kVisual Genome