KAT: A Knowledge Augmented Transformer for Vision-and-Language

Liangke Gui, Borui Wang, Qiuyuan Huang, Alexander Hauptmann, Yonatan Bisk, Jianfeng Gao


Abstract
The primary focus of recent work with large-scale transformers has been on optimizing the amount of information packed into the model’s parameters. In this work, we ask a complementary question: Can multimodal transformers leverage explicit knowledge in their reasoning? Existing, primarily unimodal, methods have explored approaches under the paradigm of knowledge retrieval followed by answer prediction, but leave open questions about the quality and relevance of the retrieved knowledge used, and how the reasoning processes over implicit and explicit knowledge should be integrated. To address these challenges, we propose a - Knowledge Augmented Transformer (KAT) - which achieves a strong state-of-the-art result (+6% absolute) on the open-domain multimodal task of OK-VQA. Our approach integrates implicit and explicit knowledge in an encoder-decoder architecture, while still jointly reasoning over both knowledge sources during answer generation. Additionally, explicit knowledge integration improves interpretability of model predictions in our analysis.
Anthology ID:
2022.naacl-main.70
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, United States
Editors:
Marine Carpuat, Marie-Catherine de Marneffe, Ivan Vladimir Meza Ruiz
Venue:
NAACL
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Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
956–968
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.70
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.naacl-main.70
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Cite (ACL):
Liangke Gui, Borui Wang, Qiuyuan Huang, Alexander Hauptmann, Yonatan Bisk, and Jianfeng Gao. 2022. KAT: A Knowledge Augmented Transformer for Vision-and-Language. In Proceedings of the 2022 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, pages 956–968, Seattle, United States. Association for Computational Linguistics.
Cite (Informal):
KAT: A Knowledge Augmented Transformer for Vision-and-Language (Gui et al., NAACL 2022)
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PDF:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.70.pdf
Video:
 https://aclanthology.org/2022.naacl-main.70.mp4
Code
 guilk/kat
Data
OK-VQA