{"about":{"site":"https://codewithpapers.app","non_affiliation":"Code with Papers and Syntology are not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Papers with Code, Meta, or the pwc-archive mirror.","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","attribution":"https://codewithpapers.app/attribution","modified":"archive material modified by Syntology; see the attribution page"},"url":"/paper/generating-diverse-and-meaningful-captions","title":"Generating Diverse and Meaningful Captions","arxiv_id":"1812.08126","date":"2018-12-19","proceeding":null,"authors":["Annika Lindh","Robert J. Ross","Abhijit Mahalunkar","Giancarlo Salton","John D. Kelleher"],"abstract":"Image Captioning is a task that requires models to acquire a multi-modal\nunderstanding of the world and to express this understanding in natural\nlanguage text. While the state-of-the-art for this task has rapidly improved in\nterms of n-gram metrics, these models tend to output the same generic captions\nfor similar images. In this work, we address this limitation and train a model\nthat generates more diverse and specific captions through an unsupervised\ntraining approach that incorporates a learning signal from an Image Retrieval\nmodel. We summarize previous results and improve the state-of-the-art on\ncaption diversity and novelty. We make our source code publicly available\nonline.","url_abs":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1812.08126v1","url_pdf":"http://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.08126v1.pdf","source":{"archive":"pwc-archive (Hugging Face), CC BY-SA 4.0","snapshot":"2025-07-28","licence_url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode","row_kind":"abstracts"},"code_links":[{"paper_slug":"generating-diverse-and-meaningful-captions","repo_url":"https://github.com/AnnikaLindh/Diverse_and_Specific_Image_Captioning","is_official":1,"mentioned_in_paper":1,"mentioned_in_github":0,"framework":"pytorch","reach":null}],"tasks":[{"task_slug":"diversity","task_name":"Diversity"},{"task_slug":"image-captioning","task_name":"Image Captioning"},{"task_slug":"image-retrieval","task_name":"Image Retrieval"},{"task_slug":"retrieval","task_name":"Retrieval"}],"methods":[],"datasets_introduced":[],"methods_introduced":[],"results":[],"syntology":{"syntology_url":null,"atlas_url":null,"mcp":null,"developers":"https://syntology.ai/developers"},"arxiv_metadata":null,"syntology_extracted_results":null}