Chang Zhou


2023

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Prompt Tuning for Unified Multimodal Pretrained Models
Hao Yang | Junyang Lin | An Yang | Peng Wang | Chang Zhou
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023

Prompt tuning has become a new paradigm for model tuning and it has demonstrated success in natural language pretraining and even vision pretraining. The parameter-efficient prompt tuning methods that optimize soft embeddings while keeping the pretrained model frozen demonstrate advantages in low computation costs and almost lossless performance. In this work, we explore the transfer of prompt tuning to multimodal pretrained models. Specifically, we implement prompt tuning to a unified sequence-to-sequence pretrained model by adding a sequence of learnable embeddings to each layer and finetuning the pretrained model on downstream task with only the learnable embeddings being optimized. Experimental results on a series of multimodal understanding and generation tasks demonstrate that our method OFA-PT can achieve comparable performance with finetuning across a series of multimodal generation and understanding tasks. Additionally, it significantly outperforms the unified multimodal pretrained model with other parameter-efficient tuning methods, e.g., Adapter, BitFit. etc. Besides, in comparison with finetuned models, the prompt-tuned models demonstrate improved robustness against adversarial attacks. We further figure out that experimental factors, including prompt length, prompt depth, and reparameteratization, have great impacts on the model performance, and thus we empirically provide a recommendation for the setups of prompt tuning.

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Transferring General Multimodal Pretrained Models to Text Recognition
Junyang Lin | Xuancheng Ren | Yichang Zhang | Gao Liu | Peng Wang | An Yang | Chang Zhou
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023

This paper proposes a new method, OFA-OCR, to transfer multimodal pretrained models to text recognition. Specifically, we recast text recognition as image captioning and directly transfer a unified vision-language pretrained model to the end task. Without pretraining on large-scale annotated or synthetic text recognition data, OFA-OCR outperforms the baselines and achieves state-of-the-art performance in the Chinese text recognition benchmark. Additionally, we construct an OCR pipeline with OFA-OCR, and we demonstrate that it can achieve competitive performance with the product-level API.

2021

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Sketch and Refine: Towards Faithful and Informative Table-to-Text Generation
Peng Wang | Junyang Lin | An Yang | Chang Zhou | Yichang Zhang | Jingren Zhou | Hongxia Yang
Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL-IJCNLP 2021

2019

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Cognitive Graph for Multi-Hop Reading Comprehension at Scale
Ming Ding | Chang Zhou | Qibin Chen | Hongxia Yang | Jie Tang
Proceedings of the 57th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

We propose a new CogQA framework for multi-hop reading comprehension question answering in web-scale documents. Founded on the dual process theory in cognitive science, the framework gradually builds a cognitive graph in an iterative process by coordinating an implicit extraction module (System 1) and an explicit reasoning module (System 2). While giving accurate answers, our framework further provides explainable reasoning paths. Specifically, our implementation based on BERT and graph neural network efficiently handles millions of documents for multi-hop reasoning questions in the HotpotQA fullwiki dataset, achieving a winning joint F1 score of 34.9 on the leaderboard, compared to 23.1 of the best competitor.