# An Empirical Study of Language CNN for Image Captioning

Source: [An Empirical Study of Language CNN for Image Captioning](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa638a1e209131ce9ff669>)

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Authors: Jiuxiang Gu, Gang Wang, Jianfei Cai, Tsuhan Chen

Published: 2016-12-21T13:04:18.000Z

## Abstract

Language Models based on recurrent neural networks have dominated recent image caption generation tasks. In this paper, we introduce a Language CNN model which is suitable for statistical language modeling tasks and shows competitive performance in image captioning. In contrast to previous models which predict next word based on one previous word and hidden state, our language CNN is fed with all the previous words and can model the long-range dependencies of history words, which are critical for image captioning. The effectiveness of our approach is validated on two datasets MS COCO and Flickr30K. Our extensive experimental results show that our method outperforms the vanilla recurrent neural network based language models and is competitive with the state-of-the-art methods.

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## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/1612.07086>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/1612.07086.pdf>)