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# LXMERT

## Overview

The LXMERT model was proposed in [LXMERT: Learning Cross-Modality Encoder Representations from Transformers](https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.07490) by Hao Tan & Mohit Bansal. It is a series of bidirectional transformer encoders
(one for the vision modality, one for the language modality, and then one to fuse both modalities) pretrained using a
combination of masked language modeling, visual-language text alignment, ROI-feature regression, masked
visual-attribute modeling, masked visual-object modeling, and visual-question answering objectives. The pretraining
consists of multiple multi-modal datasets: MSCOCO, Visual-Genome + Visual-Genome Question Answering, VQA 2.0, and GQA.

The abstract from the paper is the following:

*Vision-and-language reasoning requires an understanding of visual concepts, language semantics, and, most importantly,
the alignment and relationships between these two modalities. We thus propose the LXMERT (Learning Cross-Modality
Encoder Representations from Transformers) framework to learn these vision-and-language connections. In LXMERT, we
build a large-scale Transformer model that consists of three encoders: an object relationship encoder, a language
encoder, and a cross-modality encoder. Next, to endow our model with the capability of connecting vision and language
semantics, we pre-train the model with large amounts of image-and-sentence pairs, via five diverse representative
pretraining tasks: masked language modeling, masked object prediction (feature regression and label classification),
cross-modality matching, and image question answering. These tasks help in learning both intra-modality and
cross-modality relationships. After fine-tuning from our pretrained parameters, our model achieves the state-of-the-art
results on two visual question answering datasets (i.e., VQA and GQA). We also show the generalizability of our
pretrained cross-modality model by adapting it to a challenging visual-reasoning task, NLVR, and improve the previous
best result by 22% absolute (54% to 76%). Lastly, we demonstrate detailed ablation studies to prove that both our novel
model components and pretraining strategies significantly contribute to our strong results; and also present several
attention visualizations for the different encoders*

Tips:

- Bounding boxes are not necessary to be used in the visual feature embeddings, any kind of visual-spacial features
  will work.
- Both the language hidden states and the visual hidden states that LXMERT outputs are passed through the
  cross-modality layer, so they contain information from both modalities. To access a modality that only attends to
  itself, select the vision/language hidden states from the first input in the tuple.
- The bidirectional cross-modality encoder attention only returns attention values when the language modality is used
  as the input and the vision modality is used as the context vector. Further, while the cross-modality encoder
  contains self-attention for each respective modality and cross-attention, only the cross attention is returned and
  both self attention outputs are disregarded.

This model was contributed by [eltoto1219](https://huggingface.co/eltoto1219). The original code can be found [here](https://github.com/airsplay/lxmert).

## Documentation resources

- [Question answering task guide](../tasks/question_answering)

## LxmertConfig

[[autodoc]] LxmertConfig

## LxmertTokenizer

[[autodoc]] LxmertTokenizer

## LxmertTokenizerFast

[[autodoc]] LxmertTokenizerFast

## Lxmert specific outputs

[[autodoc]] models.lxmert.modeling_lxmert.LxmertModelOutput

[[autodoc]] models.lxmert.modeling_lxmert.LxmertForPreTrainingOutput

[[autodoc]] models.lxmert.modeling_lxmert.LxmertForQuestionAnsweringOutput

[[autodoc]] models.lxmert.modeling_tf_lxmert.TFLxmertModelOutput

[[autodoc]] models.lxmert.modeling_tf_lxmert.TFLxmertForPreTrainingOutput

## LxmertModel

[[autodoc]] LxmertModel
    - forward

## LxmertForPreTraining

[[autodoc]] LxmertForPreTraining
    - forward

## LxmertForQuestionAnswering

[[autodoc]] LxmertForQuestionAnswering
    - forward

## TFLxmertModel

[[autodoc]] TFLxmertModel
    - call

## TFLxmertForPreTraining

[[autodoc]] TFLxmertForPreTraining
    - call