A Reconstruction-Based Framework for Caption Evaluation Beyond Reference Captions

Published in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS), 2026

First author. Under review at NeurIPS 2026 (CCF-A). Objective caption evaluation via semantic-equivalent image reconstruction — no reference captions required.

Recommended citation: Tang, Z., Qi, J., Tang, K., Zheng, Y., & Huang, J. (2026). "A Reconstruction-Based Framework for Caption Evaluation Beyond Reference Captions." NeurIPS 2026 (under review).