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Probing Cross-Modal Representations in Multi-Step Relational Reasoning

2021-08-01ACL (RepL4NLP) 2021Code Available0· sign in to hype

Iuliia Parfenova, Desmond Elliott, Raquel Fernández, Sandro Pezzelle

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We investigate the representations learned by vision and language models in tasks that require relational reasoning. Focusing on the problem of assessing the relative size of objects in abstract visual contexts, we analyse both one-step and two-step reasoning. For the latter, we construct a new dataset of three-image scenes and define a task that requires reasoning at the level of the individual images and across images in a scene. We probe the learned model representations using diagnostic classifiers. Our experiments show that pretrained multimodal transformer-based architectures can perform higher-level relational reasoning, and are able to learn representations for novel tasks and data that are very different from what was seen in pretraining.

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