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Andrea Burns

8 accepted papers

2025

Walk and Read Less: Improving the Efficiency of Vision-and-Language Navigation via Tuning-Free Multimodal Token Pruning

EMNLP 2025

Large models achieve strong performance on Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks, but are costly to run in resource-limited environments. Token pruning offers appealing tradeoffs for efficiency with minimal performance loss by reducing model input size, but prior work overlooks VLN-specific cha

2024

ImageInWords: Unlocking Hyper-Detailed Image Descriptions

EMNLP 2024main

Despite the longstanding adage ”an image is worth a thousand words,” generating accurate hyper-detailed image descriptions remains unsolved. Trained on short web-scraped image-text, vision-language models often generate incomplete descriptions with visual inconsistencies. We address this via a novel…

2024

Tell Me What’s Next: Textual Foresight for Generic UI Representations

ACL 2024findings

Mobile app user interfaces (UIs) are rich with action, text, structure, and image content that can be utilized to learn generic UI representations for tasks like automating user commands, summarizing content, and evaluating the accessibility of user interfaces. Prior work has learned strong visual r…

2023

A Suite of Generative Tasks for Multi-Level Multimodal Webpage Understanding

EMNLP 2023long main

Webpages have been a rich, scalable resource for vision-language and language only tasks. Yet only pieces of webpages are kept in existing datasets: image-caption pairs, long text articles, or raw HTML, never all in one place. Webpage tasks have resultingly received little attention and structured i…

Cited by 0SourcecodeScholar
2023

Language-Guided Audio-Visual Source Separation via Trimodal Consistency

CVPR 2023poster

We propose a self-supervised approach for learning to perform audio source separation in videos based on natural language queries, using only unlabeled video and audio pairs as training data. A key challenge in this task is learning to associate the linguistic description of a sound-emitting object…

Cited by 19SourcePDFScholar
2022

A Dataset for Interactive Vision-Language Navigation with Unknown Command Feasibility

ECCV 2022poster

"Vision-language navigation (VLN), in which an agent follows language instruction in a visual environment, has been studied under the premise that the input command is fully feasible in the environment. Yet in practice, a request may not be possible due to language ambiguity or environment changes.…

2020

Learning to Scale Multilingual Representations for Vision-Language Tasks

ECCV 2020poster

Current multilingual vision-language models either require a large number of additional parameters for each supported language, or suffer performance degradation as languages are added. In this paper, we propose a Scalable Multilingual Aligned Language Representation (SMALR) that supports many langu…

Cited by 37SourcePDFScholar
2019

Language Features Matter: Effective Language Representations for Vision-Language Tasks

ICCV 2019poster

Shouldn't language and vision features be treated equally in vision-language (VL) tasks? Many VL approaches treat the language component as an afterthought, using simple language models that are either built upon fixed word embeddings trained on text-only data or are learned from scratch. We conclud…

Cited by 39PDFScholar