# Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention

Kelvin Xu, Jimmy Lei Ba, Ryan Kiros, Kyunghyun Cho, Aaron Courville, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Richard S. Zemel, Yoshua Bengio. ICML 2015 (2015).

Introduces deterministic soft and stochastic hard visual attention for image captioning.

An early stochastic-attention reference for the distinction between expected features and sampled selection.

[Original paper](https://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/xuc15.html)

## Citation

```bibtex
@inproceedings{xu2015show,
  title = {{Show, Attend and Tell: Neural Image Caption Generation with Visual Attention}},
  author = {Xu, Kelvin and Ba, Jimmy Lei and Kiros, Ryan and Cho, Kyunghyun and Courville, Aaron and Salakhutdinov, Ruslan and Zemel, Richard S. and Bengio, Yoshua},
  year = {2015},
  booktitle = {ICML 2015},
  url = {https://proceedings.mlr.press/v37/xuc15.html},
  eprint = {1502.03044},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv}
}
```