CAPEEN: Image Captioning with Early Exits and Knowledge Distillation

Autor:	Bajpai, Divya Jyoti, Hanawal, Manjesh Kumar
Rok vydání:	2024
Předmět:	Computer Science - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence Computer Science - Computation and Language
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
Popis:	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 Comment: To appear in EMNLP (finding) 2024
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.04433 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv