Connecting Vision and Language plays an essential role in Generative Intelligence. For this
reason, large research efforts have been devoted to image captioning, ie describing images …

Generating a description of an image is called image captioning. Image captioning requires
recognizing the important objects, their attributes, and their relationships in an image. It also …

Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) recently has been a new rising research
hotspot, which uses powerful Large Language Models (LLMs) as a brain to perform …

Attention mechanisms are widely used in current encoder/decoder frameworks of image
captioning, where a weighted average on encoded vectors is generated at each time step to …

Text style transfer is an important task in natural language generation, which aims to control
certain attributes in the generated text, such as politeness, emotion, humor, and many …

This article describes the development of Microsoft XiaoIce, the most popular social chatbot
in the world. XiaoIce is uniquely designed as an artifical intelligence companion with an …

Deep learning methods haverevolutionized speech recognition, image recognition, and
natural language processing since 2010. Each of these tasks involves a single modality in …

Large language models can be prompted to pro-duce fluent output for a wide range of tasks
without being specifically trained to do so. Nevertheless, it is notoriously difficult to control …

Conversational systems have come a long way since their inception in the 1960s. After
decades of research and development, we have seen progress from Eliza and Parry in the …

We consider the task of text attribute transfer: transforming a sentence to alter a specific
attribute (eg, sentiment) while preserving its attribute-independent content (eg, changing" …