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Multimodal reference resolution, including phrase grounding, aims to understand the semantic relations between mentions and real-world objects. Phrase grounding between images and their captions is a well-established task. In contrast, for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Shun Inadumi , Nobuhiro Ueda , Koichiro Yoshino

The ease and speed of spreading misinformation and propaganda on the Web motivate the need to develop trustworthy technology for detecting fallacies in natural language arguments. However, state-of-the-art language modeling methods exhibit…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-05-19 Zhivar Sourati , Filip Ilievski , Hông-Ân Sandlin , Alain Mermoud

Explanations shed light on a machine learning model's rationales and can aid in identifying deficiencies in its reasoning process. Explanation generation models are typically trained in a supervised way given human explanations. When such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-09-09 Pepa Atanasova , Jakob Grue Simonsen , Christina Lioma , Isabelle Augenstein

We propose a visually grounded speech model that acquires new words and their visual depictions from just a few word-image example pairs. Given a set of test images and a spoken query, we ask the model which image depicts the query word.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-31 Leanne Nortje , Benjamin van Niekerk , Herman Kamper

We investigate ways to compose complex concepts in texts from primitive ones while grounding them in images. We propose Concept and Relation Graph (CRG), which builds on top of constituency analysis and consists of recursively combined…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-02 Bowen Zhang , Hexiang Hu , Linlu Qiu , Peter Shaw , Fei Sha

Visual grounding refers to the ability of a model to identify a region within some visual input that matches a textual description. Consequently, a model equipped with visual grounding capabilities can target a wide range of applications in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-16 Georgios Pantazopoulos , Eda B. Özyiğit

Grounding free-form textual queries necessitates an understanding of these textual phrases and its relation to the visual cues to reliably reason about the described locations. Spatial attention networks are known to learn this relationship…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-09 Amar Shrestha , Krittaphat Pugdeethosapol , Haowen Fang , Qinru Qiu

Textual explanations make image classifier decisions transparent by describing the prediction rationale in natural language. Large vision-language models can generate captions but are designed for general visual understanding, not…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Toshinori Yamauchi , Hiroshi Kera , Kazuhiko Kawamoto

Document grounded generation is the task of using the information provided in a document to improve text generation. This work focuses on two different document grounded generation tasks: Wikipedia Update Generation task and Dialogue…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-27 Shrimai Prabhumoye , Kazuma Hashimoto , Yingbo Zhou , Alan W Black , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Phrase Grounding aims to detect and localize objects in images that are referred to and are queried by natural language phrases. Phrase grounding finds applications in tasks such as Visual Dialog, Visual Search and Image-text co-reference…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-11 Rama Kovvuri , Ram Nevatia

Foundation models contain a wealth of information from their vast number of training samples. However, most prior arts fail to extract this information in a precise and efficient way for small sample sizes. In this work, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Nico Schiavone , Xingyu Li

With the advent of deep learning, text generation language models have improved dramatically, with text at a similar level as human-written text. This can lead to rampant misinformation because content can now be created cheaply and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-01-24 Sai Gurrapu , Lifu Huang , Feras A. Batarseh

Recent advances in large language models and vision-language models have led to growing interest in explainable evaluation metrics for image captioning. However, these metrics generate explanations without standardized criteria, and the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Hyunjong Kim , Sangyeop Kim , Jongheon Jeong , Yeongjae Cho , Sungzoon Cho

In this paper, we study how word-like units are represented and activated in a recurrent neural model of visually grounded speech. The model used in our experiments is trained to project an image and its spoken description in a common…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-19 William N. Havard , Jean-Pierre Chevrot , Laurent Besacier

Recent studies have demonstrated the efficacy of using Reinforcement Learning (RL) in building reasoning models that articulate chains of thoughts prior to producing final answers. However, despite ongoing advances that aim at enabling…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yue Fan , Xuehai He , Diji Yang , Kaizhi Zheng , Ching-Chen Kuo , Yuting Zheng , Sravana Jyothi Narayanaraju , Xinze Guan , Xin Eric Wang

Despite their high accuracies, modern complex image classifiers cannot be trusted for sensitive tasks due to their unknown decision-making process and potential biases. Counterfactual explanations are very effective in providing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-13 Kamran Alipour , Aditya Lahiri , Ehsan Adeli , Babak Salimi , Michael Pazzani

Grounding language in perception and action is a key challenge when building situated agents that can interact with humans, or other agents, via language. In the past, addressing this challenge has required manually designing the language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Andrew C. Li , Toryn Q. Klassen , Andrew Wang , Parand A. Alamdari , Sheila A. McIlraith

Definition Modeling, the task of generating definitions, was first proposed as a means to evaluate the semantic quality of word embeddings-a coherent lexical semantic representations of a word in context should contain all the information…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Vincent Segonne , Timothee Mickus

Narrated instructional videos often show and describe manipulations of similar objects, e.g., repairing a particular model of a car or laptop. In this work we aim to reconstruct such objects and to localize associated narrations in 3D.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-13 Dimitri Zhukov , Ignacio Rocco , Ivan Laptev , Josef Sivic , Johannes L. Schönberger , Bugra Tekin , Marc Pollefeys

We propose a new task, dataset and model for grounded video caption generation. This task unifies captioning and object grounding in video, where the objects in the caption are grounded in the video via temporally consistent bounding boxes.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Evangelos Kazakos , Cordelia Schmid , Josef Sivic