As sharing images in an instant message is a crucial factor, there has been active research on learning a image-text multi-modal dialogue model. However, training a well-generalized multi-modal dialogue model is challenging because existing multi-modal dialogue datasets contain a small number of data, limited topics, and a restricted variety of images per dialogue. In this paper, we present a multi-modal dialogue dataset creation pipeline that involves matching large-scale images to dialogues based on CLIP similarity. Using this automatic pipeline, we propose a large-scale multi-modal dialogue dataset, DialogCC, which covers diverse real-world topics and various images per dialogue. With extensive experiments, we demonstrate that training a multi-modal dialogue model with our dataset can improve generalization performance. Additionally, existing models trained with our dataset achieve state-of-the-art performance on image and text retrieval tasks. The source code and the dataset will be released after publication.

Responding with multi-modal content has been recognized as an essential capability for an intelligent conversational agent. In this paper, we introduce the MMDialog dataset to better facilitate multi-modal conversation. MMDialog is composed of a curated set of 1.08 million real-world dialogues with 1.53 million unique images across 4,184 topics. MMDialog has two main and unique advantages. First, it is the largest multi-modal conversation dataset by the number of dialogues by 8x. Second, it contains massive topics to generalize the open-domain. To build engaging dialogue system with this dataset, we propose and normalize two response producing tasks based on retrieval and generative scenarios. In addition, we build two baselines for above tasks with state-of-the-art techniques and report their experimental performance. We also propose a novel evaluation metric MM-Relevance to measure the multi-modal responses. Our dataset and scripts are available in https://github.com/victorsungo/MMDialog.

The goal of building dialogue agents that can converse with humans naturally has been a long-standing dream of researchers since the early days of artificial intelligence. The well-known Turing Test proposed to judge the ultimate validity of an artificial intelligence agent on the indistinguishability of its dialogues from humans'. It should come as no surprise that human-level dialogue systems are very challenging to build. But, while early effort on rule-based systems found limited success, the emergence of deep learning enabled great advance on this topic. In this thesis, we focus on methods that address the numerous issues that have been imposing the gap between artificial conversational agents and human-level interlocutors. These methods were proposed and experimented with in ways that were inspired by general state-of-the-art AI methodologies. But they also targeted the characteristics that dialogue systems possess.

随着在线聊天的日益普及，贴纸在我们的在线沟通中变得越来越重要。在开放域对话中选择适当的贴纸需要对对话和贴纸以及两种类型的方式之间的关系有全面的了解。为了应对这些挑战，我们提出了一种由三个辅助任务组成的多任务学习方法，以增强对对话历史，情感和语义含义的理解。在最近的一个具有挑战性的数据集中进行的广泛实验表明，我们的模型可以更好地结合多模式信息，并在强质基础上获得更高的精度。消融研究进一步验证了每个辅助任务的有效性。我们的代码可在\ url {https://github.com/nonstopfor/sticker-selection}中找到

出色的图像文本检索模型取决于高质量标记的数据。尽管现有图像文本检索数据集的构建者努力确保标题与链接的图像匹配，但它们无法阻止字幕拟合其他图像。我们观察到，如此多的匹配现象在广泛使用的检索数据集中非常普遍，其中一个标题可以描述多达178张图像。这些较大的匹配失误数据不仅使训练中的模型混淆，而且还会削弱评估精度。受视觉和文本核心任务的启发，我们提出了一个多模式的核心分类器，以确定句子是否由图像和其链接的字幕所带来。随后，我们通过将这些需要的字幕添加为图像的附加标签来修改图像文本检索数据集，并制定通用可变率策略，以教授检索模型以区分所需的字幕和其他负样本。在实验中，我们手动注释了一个需要校正的图像文本检索数据集进行评估。结果表明，所提出的元素分类器可实现约78％的精度，并始终提高图像文本检索基线的性能。

Chatbots are expected to be knowledgeable across multiple domains, e.g. for daily chit-chat, exchange of information, and grounding in emotional situations. To effectively measure the quality of such conversational agents, a model-based automatic dialogue evaluation metric (ADEM) is expected to perform well across multiple domains. Despite significant progress, an ADEM that works well in one domain does not necessarily generalize to another. This calls for a dedicated network architecture for domain generalization. To tackle the multi-domain dialogue evaluation task, we propose a Panel of Experts (PoE), a multitask network that consists of a shared transformer encoder and a collection of lightweight adapters. The shared encoder captures the general knowledge of dialogues across domains, while each adapter specializes in one specific domain and serves as a domain expert. To validate the idea, we construct a high-quality multi-domain dialogue dataset leveraging data augmentation and pseudo-labeling. The PoE network is comprehensively assessed on 16 dialogue evaluation datasets spanning a wide range of dialogue domains. It achieves state-of-the-art performance in terms of mean Spearman correlation over all the evaluation datasets. It exhibits better zero-shot generalization than existing state-of-the-art ADEMs and the ability to easily adapt to new domains with few-shot transfer learning.

本文介绍了我们在对话状态跟踪挑战上保持的位于交互式多模式对话2.0挑战的工作10. SIMMC 2.0包括4个子任务，我们为子任务\＃1，\＃2和SubTask的生成介绍了我们的多模态方法。4.SIMMC 2.0数据集是包含图像和文本信息的多模式数据集，其比仅基于文本的对话的问题更具挑战性，因为它必须通过了解图像和文本之间的关系来解决。因此，由于仅对诸如BERT或GPT2的文本模型进行了限制，因此我们提出了一种组合图像和文本的多模式模型。我们首先使用多模式模型来了解图像和文本之间的关系，然后为每项任务进行模型。我们在SubTask \＃2中实现了第三个最佳性能，\＃2以及SubTask \＃4的生成中的亚军。源代码可在https://github.com/rungjoo/simmc2.0获得。

The availability of large-scale image captioning and visual question answering datasets has contributed significantly to recent successes in vision-and-language pretraining. However, these datasets are often collected with overrestrictive requirements inherited from their original target tasks (e.g., image caption generation), which limit the resulting dataset scale and diversity. We take a step further in pushing the limits of vision-and-language pretraining data by relaxing the data collection pipeline used in Conceptual Captions 3M (CC3M) [70] and introduce the Conceptual 12M (CC12M), a dataset with 12 million image-text pairs specifically meant to be used for visionand-language pre-training. We perform an analysis of this dataset and benchmark its effectiveness against CC3M on multiple downstream tasks with an emphasis on long-tail visual recognition. Our results clearly illustrate the benefit of scaling up pre-training data for vision-and-language tasks, as indicated by the new state-of-the-art results on both the nocaps and Conceptual Captions benchmarks. 1

Interview has been regarded as one of the most crucial step for recruitment. To fully prepare for the interview with the recruiters, job seekers usually practice with mock interviews between each other. However, such a mock interview with peers is generally far away from the real interview experience: the mock interviewers are not guaranteed to be professional and are not likely to behave like a real interviewer. Due to the rapid growth of online recruitment in recent years, recruiters tend to have online interviews, which makes it possible to collect real interview data from real interviewers. In this paper, we propose a novel application named EZInterviewer, which aims to learn from the online interview data and provides mock interview services to the job seekers. The task is challenging in two ways: (1) the interview data are now available but still of low-resource; (2) to generate meaningful and relevant interview dialogs requires thorough understanding of both resumes and job descriptions. To address the low-resource challenge, EZInterviewer is trained on a very small set of interview dialogs. The key idea is to reduce the number of parameters that rely on interview dialogs by disentangling the knowledge selector and dialog generator so that most parameters can be trained with ungrounded dialogs as well as the resume data that are not low-resource. Evaluation results on a real-world job interview dialog dataset indicate that we achieve promising results to generate mock interviews. With the help of EZInterviewer, we hope to make mock interview practice become easier for job seekers.

Image captioning is one of the straightforward tasks that can take advantage of large-scale web-crawled data which provides rich knowledge about the visual world for a captioning model. However, since web-crawled data contains image-text pairs that are aligned at different levels, the inherent noises (e.g., misaligned pairs) make it difficult to learn a precise captioning model. While the filtering strategy can effectively remove noisy data, however, it leads to a decrease in learnable knowledge and sometimes brings about a new problem of data deficiency. To take the best of both worlds, we propose a noise-aware learning framework, which learns rich knowledge from the whole web-crawled data while being less affected by the noises. This is achieved by the proposed quality controllable model, which is learned using alignment levels of the image-text pairs as an additional control signal during training. The alignment-conditioned training allows the model to generate high-quality captions of well-aligned by simply setting the control signal to desired alignment level at inference time. Through in-depth analysis, we show that our controllable captioning model is effective in handling noise. In addition, with two tasks of zero-shot captioning and text-to-image retrieval using generated captions (i.e., self-retrieval), we also demonstrate our model can produce high-quality captions in terms of descriptiveness and distinctiveness. Code is available at \url{https://github.com/kakaobrain/noc}.

我们在这项研究中的目标是研究一个更现实的环境，在这种环境中，我们可以为细粒度的产品类别进行弱监督的多模式实例级产品检索。我们首先贡献了product1m数据集，并定义了两个实际实例级检索任务，以实现价格比较和个性化建议的评估。对于两个实例级任务，如何准确地指出视觉语言数据中提到的产品目标并有效地降低了无关紧要的内容的影响非常具有挑战性。为了解决这个问题，我们利用训练一个更有效的跨模式与模型，该模型能够自适应地能够通过使用一个实体图，其节点和边缘分别表示实体和相似性，从而可以从多模式数据中合并来自多模式数据的关键概念信息。实体。具体而言，为实例级别的商品检索提出了一种新型的实体图增强的跨模式预处理（EGE-CMP）模型，该模型明确地将基于节点的基于节点的基于节点和子图的方式显式地注入实体知识。自我监管的混合流变压器可以减少不同对象内容之间的混淆，从而有效地指导网络专注于具有真实语义的实体。实验结果很好地验证了我们的EGE-CMP的功效和概括性，表现优于几个SOTA跨模式基线，例如夹子，Uniter和Capture。

本文介绍了Lingjing团队在NLPCC-2022-Shared-Task-4多模式对话理解和发电（MDUG）中的实验方案。MDUG任务可以分为两个阶段：多模式上下文理解和响应生成。为了充分利用视觉信息以获得场景的理解和对话的生成，我们提出了MDUG任务的场景感知提示。具体而言，我们利用多任务策略共同建模场景和会话多模式的理解。采用视觉标题来了解场景信息，而基于场景和会话感知标签的固定类型的模板提示则用于进一步改善对话生成性能。广泛的实验结果表明，与其他竞争方法相比，所提出的方法已经达到了最先进的（SOTA）性能，在此MDUG竞争中，我们在所有三个子任务中排名1-ST。

In open-domain dialogue intelligent agents should exhibit the use of knowledge, however there are few convincing demonstrations of this to date. The most popular sequence to sequence models typically "generate and hope" generic utterances that can be memorized in the weights of the model when mapping from input utterance(s) to output, rather than employing recalled knowledge as context. Use of knowledge has so far proved difficult, in part because of the lack of a supervised learning benchmark task which exhibits knowledgeable open dialogue with clear grounding. To that end we collect and release a large dataset with conversations directly grounded with knowledge retrieved from Wikipedia. We then design architectures capable of retrieving knowledge, reading and conditioning on it, and finally generating natural responses. Our best performing dialogue models are able to conduct knowledgeable discussions on open-domain topics as evaluated by automatic metrics and human evaluations, while our new benchmark allows for measuring further improvements in this important research direction.

误导现在是由于其核心民主和社会价值观和订单的潜在高风险导致的主要问题。外观的错误信息是对病毒假故事进行的对手使用的最简单有效的方法之一。在这种威胁中，通过歪曲其上下文和/或元素来重新设计真实的图像以支持其他叙述。互联网被用作使用不同来源和模态的信息来验证信息。我们的目标是一种可防止的方法，通过使用Web证据来检查图像标题配对来自动实现这一耗时和推理的密集流程。要从两种方式集成证据和提示，我们介绍了“多模态周期 - 一致性检查”的概念;从图像/标题开始，我们收集文本/视觉证据，将分别与其他配对的字幕/图像进行比较。此外，我们提出了一种新颖的架构，一致性检查网络（CCN），其模拟了相同和不同的方式的分层人工理学：标题与文本证据，图像与视觉证据和图像与标题。我们的工作为开放式，基于内容，多模态事实检查提供的第一步和基准，并且显着优于未杠杆效率的基准。

Recent video+language datasets cover domains where the interaction is highly structured, such as instructional videos, or where the interaction is scripted, such as TV shows. Both of these properties can lead to spurious cues to be exploited by models rather than learning to ground language. In this paper, we present GrOunded footbAlL commentaries (GOAL), a novel dataset of football (or `soccer') highlights videos with transcribed live commentaries in English. As the course of a game is unpredictable, so are commentaries, which makes them a unique resource to investigate dynamic language grounding. We also provide state-of-the-art baselines for the following tasks: frame reordering, moment retrieval, live commentary retrieval and play-by-play live commentary generation. Results show that SOTA models perform reasonably well in most tasks. We discuss the implications of these results and suggest new tasks for which GOAL can be used. Our codebase is available at: https://gitlab.com/grounded-sport-convai/goal-baselines.

Visual Entity Linking (VEL) is a task to link regions of images with their corresponding entities in Knowledge Bases (KBs), which is beneficial for many computer vision tasks such as image retrieval, image caption, and visual question answering. While existing tasks in VEL either rely on textual data to complement a multi-modal linking or only link objects with general entities, which fails to perform named entity linking on large amounts of image data. In this paper, we consider a purely Visual-based Named Entity Linking (VNEL) task, where the input only consists of an image. The task is to identify objects of interest (i.e., visual entity mentions) in images and link them to corresponding named entities in KBs. Since each entity often contains rich visual and textual information in KBs, we thus propose three different sub-tasks, i.e., visual to visual entity linking (V2VEL), visual to textual entity linking (V2TEL), and visual to visual-textual entity linking (V2VTEL). In addition, we present a high-quality human-annotated visual person linking dataset, named WIKIPerson. Based on WIKIPerson, we establish a series of baseline algorithms for the solution of each sub-task, and conduct experiments to verify the quality of proposed datasets and the effectiveness of baseline methods. We envision this work to be helpful for soliciting more works regarding VNEL in the future. The codes and datasets are publicly available at https://github.com/ict-bigdatalab/VNEL.

我们研究了联合视频和语言（VL）预培训，以实现跨模型学习和益处丰富的下游VL任务。现有的作品要么提取低质量的视频特征或学习有限的文本嵌入，但忽略了高分辨率视频和多样化的语义可以显着提高跨模型学习。在本文中，我们提出了一种新的高分辨率和多样化的视频 - 语言预训练模型（HD-VILA），用于许多可视任务。特别是，我们收集具有两个不同属性的大型数据集：1）第一个高分辨率数据集包括371.5k小时的720p视频，2）最多样化的数据集涵盖15个流行的YouTube类别。为了启用VL预培训，我们通过学习丰富的时空特征的混合变压器联合优化HD-VILA模型，以及多峰变压器，用于强制学习视频功能与多样化文本的交互。我们的预训练模式实现了新的最先进的导致10 VL了解任务和2个新颖的文本到视觉生成任务。例如，我们以零拍摄MSR-VTT文本到视频检索任务的相对增加38.5％R @ 1的相对增长，高分辨率数据集LSMDC为53.6％。学习的VL嵌入也有效地在文本到视觉操纵和超分辨率任务中产生视觉上令人愉悦和语义相关结果。

现代视频文本检索框架基本上由三个部分组成：视频编码器，文本编码器和相似性。随着Visual和Textual表示学习的成功，在视频文本检索领域也采用了基于变压器的编码器和融合方法。在本报告中，我们呈现Clip2TV，旨在探索关键元素在基于变压器的方法中。为实现这一目标，我们首先重新审视一些对多模态学习的工作，然后将一些技术介绍到视频文本检索中，最后通过不同配置的大量实验进行评估。值得注意的是，Clip2TV在MSR-VTT数据集上实现了52.9 @ R1，优先表现出先前的SOTA结果为4.1％。

Vision-Language Pretraining (VLP) and Foundation models have been the go-to recipe for achieving SoTA performance on general benchmarks. However, leveraging these powerful techniques for more complex vision-language tasks, such as cooking applications, with more structured input data, is still little investigated. In this work, we propose to leverage these techniques for structured-text based computational cuisine tasks. Our strategy, dubbed VLPCook (Structured Vision-Language Pretraining for Computational Cooking), first transforms existing image-text pairs to image and structured-text pairs. This allows to pretrain our VLPCook model using VLP objectives adapted to the strutured data of the resulting datasets, then finetuning it on downstream computational cooking tasks. During finetuning, we also enrich the visual encoder, leveraging pretrained foundation models (e.g. CLIP) to provide local and global textual context. VLPCook outperforms current SoTA by a significant margin (+3.3 Recall@1 absolute improvement) on the task of Cross-Modal Food Retrieval on the large Recipe1M dataset. Finally, we conduct further experiments on VLP to validate their importance, especially on the Recipe1M+ dataset. The code will be made publicly available.

随着网络和在线百科全书的可访问性的增加，要管理的数据量正在不断增加。例如，在Wikipedia中，有数百万页用多种语言编写。这些页面包含通常缺乏文本上下文的图像，在概念上保持浮动，因此很难找到和管理。在这项工作中，我们介绍了我们设计的系统，用于参加Kaggle上的Wikipedia图像捕捉匹配挑战，其目的是使用与图像（URL和视觉数据）相关的数据来在大量可用图像中找到正确的标题。能够执行此任务的系统将改善大型在线百科全书上多媒体内容的可访问性和完整性。具体而言，我们提出了一个由最近的变压器模型提供支持的两个模型的级联，能够有效地推断出查询图像数据和字幕之间的相关得分。我们通过广泛的实验来验证，提出的两模型方法是处理大量图像和标题的有效方法，同时保持了推理时的整体计算复杂性。我们的方法取得了显着的结果，在Kaggle Challenge的私人排行榜上获得了0.53的归一化折扣累积增益（NDCG）值。