CAPEEN: Image Captioning with Early Exits and Knowledge Distillation

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Autori principali: Bajpai, Divya Jyoti, Hanawal, Manjesh Kumar
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author Bajpai, Divya Jyoti
Hanawal, Manjesh Kumar
author_facet Bajpai, Divya Jyoti
Hanawal, Manjesh Kumar
contents Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made significant progress in recognizing visual elements and generating descriptive text in image-captioning tasks. However, their improved performance comes from increased computational burden and inference latency. Early Exit (EE) strategies can be used to enhance their efficiency, but their adaptation presents challenges in image captioning as it requires varying levels of semantic information for accurate predictions. To overcome this, we introduce CAPEEN to improve the performance of EE strategies using knowledge distillation. Inference in CAPEEN is completed at intermediary layers if prediction confidence exceeds a predefined value learned from the training data. To account for real-world deployments, where target distributions could drift from that of training samples, we introduce a variant A-CAPEEN to adapt the thresholds on the fly using Multiarmed bandits framework. Experiments on the MS COCO and Flickr30k datasets show that CAPEEN gains speedup of 1.77x while maintaining competitive performance compared to the final layer, and A-CAPEEN additionally offers robustness against distortions. The source code is available at https://github.com/Div290/CapEEN
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spellingShingle CAPEEN: Image Captioning with Early Exits and Knowledge Distillation
Bajpai, Divya Jyoti
Hanawal, Manjesh Kumar
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
Deep neural networks (DNNs) have made significant progress in recognizing visual elements and generating descriptive text in image-captioning tasks. However, their improved performance comes from increased computational burden and inference latency. Early Exit (EE) strategies can be used to enhance their efficiency, but their adaptation presents challenges in image captioning as it requires varying levels of semantic information for accurate predictions. To overcome this, we introduce CAPEEN to improve the performance of EE strategies using knowledge distillation. Inference in CAPEEN is completed at intermediary layers if prediction confidence exceeds a predefined value learned from the training data. To account for real-world deployments, where target distributions could drift from that of training samples, we introduce a variant A-CAPEEN to adapt the thresholds on the fly using Multiarmed bandits framework. Experiments on the MS COCO and Flickr30k datasets show that CAPEEN gains speedup of 1.77x while maintaining competitive performance compared to the final layer, and A-CAPEEN additionally offers robustness against distortions. The source code is available at https://github.com/Div290/CapEEN
title CAPEEN: Image Captioning with Early Exits and Knowledge Distillation
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Artificial Intelligence
Computation and Language
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04433