SITransformer: Shared Information-Guided Transformer for Extreme Multimodal Summarization

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Hauptverfasser: Liu, Sicheng, Wang, Lintao, Zhu, Xiaogang, Lu, Xuequan, Wang, Zhiyong, Hu, Kun
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author Liu, Sicheng
Wang, Lintao
Zhu, Xiaogang
Lu, Xuequan
Wang, Zhiyong
Hu, Kun
author_facet Liu, Sicheng
Wang, Lintao
Zhu, Xiaogang
Lu, Xuequan
Wang, Zhiyong
Hu, Kun
contents Extreme Multimodal Summarization with Multimodal Output (XMSMO) becomes an attractive summarization approach by integrating various types of information to create extremely concise yet informative summaries for individual modalities. Existing methods overlook the issue that multimodal data often contains more topic irrelevant information, which can mislead the model into producing inaccurate summaries especially for extremely short ones. In this paper, we propose SITransformer, a Shared Information-guided Transformer for extreme multimodal summarization. It has a shared information guided pipeline which involves a cross-modal shared information extractor and a cross-modal interaction module. The extractor formulates semantically shared salient information from different modalities by devising a novel filtering process consisting of a differentiable top-k selector and a shared-information guided gating unit. As a result, the common, salient, and relevant contents across modalities are identified. Next, a transformer with cross-modal attentions is developed for intra- and inter-modality learning with the shared information guidance to produce the extreme summary. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that SITransformer significantly enhances the summarization quality for both video and text summaries for XMSMO. Our code will be publicly available at https://github.com/SichengLeoLiu/MMAsia24-XMSMO.
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spellingShingle SITransformer: Shared Information-Guided Transformer for Extreme Multimodal Summarization
Liu, Sicheng
Wang, Lintao
Zhu, Xiaogang
Lu, Xuequan
Wang, Zhiyong
Hu, Kun
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
I.2.10
Extreme Multimodal Summarization with Multimodal Output (XMSMO) becomes an attractive summarization approach by integrating various types of information to create extremely concise yet informative summaries for individual modalities. Existing methods overlook the issue that multimodal data often contains more topic irrelevant information, which can mislead the model into producing inaccurate summaries especially for extremely short ones. In this paper, we propose SITransformer, a Shared Information-guided Transformer for extreme multimodal summarization. It has a shared information guided pipeline which involves a cross-modal shared information extractor and a cross-modal interaction module. The extractor formulates semantically shared salient information from different modalities by devising a novel filtering process consisting of a differentiable top-k selector and a shared-information guided gating unit. As a result, the common, salient, and relevant contents across modalities are identified. Next, a transformer with cross-modal attentions is developed for intra- and inter-modality learning with the shared information guidance to produce the extreme summary. Comprehensive experiments demonstrate that SITransformer significantly enhances the summarization quality for both video and text summaries for XMSMO. Our code will be publicly available at https://github.com/SichengLeoLiu/MMAsia24-XMSMO.
title SITransformer: Shared Information-Guided Transformer for Extreme Multimodal Summarization
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
I.2.10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.15829