visDial.pytorch

Visual Dialog model in pytorch

Introduction

This is the pytorch implementation of our NIPS 2017 paper "Best of Both Worlds: Transferring Knowledge from Discriminative Learning to a Generative Visual Dialog Model"

Disclaimer

This is the reimplementation code of visual dialog model based on Pytorch. Our original code was implemented during the first author's internship. All the results presented in our paper were obtained based on the original code, which cannot be released since the firm restriction. This project is an attempt to reproduce the results in our paper.

Citation

If you find this code useful, please cite the following paper:

@article{lu2017best,
    title={Best of Both Worlds: Transferring Knowledge from Discriminative Learning to a Generative Visual Dialog Model},
    author={Lu, Jiasen and Kannan, Anitha and and Yang, Jianwei and Parikh, Devi and Batra, Dhruv},
    journal={NIPS},
    year={2017}
}

Dependencies

1. PyTorch. Install PyTorch with proper commands. Make sure you also install torchvision.

Evaluation

• The preprocessed feature can be found here
• The pre-trained model can be found here

To evaluate the pre-trained model on validation set, first use the script to download the feature and pre-trained model.

python script/download.py --path [path_to_download]

After download the feature and pre-trained model, you can run the evaluation script by using following command

• Evaluate the discriminative model:

python eval/eval_D.py --data_dir [path_to_root] --model_path [path_to_root]/save/HCIAE-D-MLE.pth --cuda

• Evaluate the MLE trained generative model:

python eval/eval_G.py --data_dir [path_to_root] --model_path [path_to_root]/save/HCIAE-G-MLE.pth --cuda

• Evaluate the DIS trained generative model:

python eval/eval_G_DIS.py --data_dir [path_to_root] --model_path [path_to_root]/save/HCIAE-G-DIS.pth --cuda

You will get the similar results as in the paper :)

Train a visual dialog model.

Preparation

First download the feature. from here

Training

• Train the discriminative model:

python train/train_D.py --cuda

• Train the MLE trained generative model:

python train/train_G.py --cuda

• Train the DIS trained generative model: First, train or download the pretrained discriminative model or generative model, and put it under save

python train/train_all.py --cuda --update LM