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Supervised Multimodal Bitransformers for Classifying Images and Text
Supervised Multimodal Bitransformers for Classifying Images and Text
Douwe Kiela Suvrat Bhooshan Hamed Firooz Ethan Perez Davide Testuggine
Abstract
Self-supervised bidirectional transformer models such as BERT have led to dramatic improvements in a wide variety of textual classification tasks. The modern digital world is increasingly multimodal, however, and textual information is often accompanied by other modalities such as images. We introduce a supervised multimodal bitransformer model that fuses information from text and image encoders, and obtain state-of-the-art performance on various multimodal classification benchmark tasks, outperforming strong baselines, including on hard test sets specifically designed to measure multimodal performance.