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We introduce an interactive learning framework for the development and testing of intelligent visual systems, called learning-by-asking (LBA). We explore LBA in context of the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. LBA differs from standard…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Ishan Misra , Ross Girshick , Rob Fergus , Martial Hebert , Abhinav Gupta , Laurens van der Maaten

Recent development of large-scale question answering (QA) datasets triggered a substantial amount of research into end-to-end neural architectures for QA. Increasingly complex systems have been conceived without comparison to simpler neural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-09 Dirk Weissenborn , Georg Wiese , Laura Seiffe

Due to privacy concerns, open dialogue datasets for mental health are primarily generated through human or AI synthesis methods. However, the inherent implicit nature of psychological processes, particularly those of clients, poses…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Lixiu Wu , Yuanrong Tang , Qisen Pan , Xianyang Zhan , Yucheng Han , Lanxi Xiao , Tianhong Wang , Chen Zhong , Jiangtao Gong

We present \textbf{QED}, an open-source multi-agent system that turns human-provided research questions into complete mathematical proofs without further human guidance. Its pipeline is designed to overcome common failures of single-query…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Chenyang An , Qihao Ye , Minghao Pan , Jiayaun Zhang

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved impressive results in knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (VQA). However existing methods still have challenges: the inability to use external tools autonomously, and the inability to work in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Zhongjian Hu , Peng Yang , Bing Li , Zhenqi Wang

Video question answering (VideoQA) is a complex task that requires diverse multi-modal data for training. Manual annotation of question and answers for videos, however, is tedious and prohibits scalability. To tackle this problem, recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Antoine Yang , Antoine Miech , Josef Sivic , Ivan Laptev , Cordelia Schmid

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have greatly enhanced natural language understanding and content generation. However, these models primarily operate in disembodied digital environments and lack interaction with the…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-10-21 Wenbing Tang , Meilin Zhu , Fenghua Wu , Yang Liu

Transformers for visual-language representation learning have been getting a lot of interest and shown tremendous performance on visual question answering (VQA) and grounding. But most systems that show good performance of those tasks still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Aisha Urooj Khan , Hilde Kuehne , Chuang Gan , Niels Da Vitoria Lobo , Mubarak Shah

We present a self-supervised method to improve an agent's abilities in describing arbitrary objects while actively exploring a generic environment. This is a challenging problem, as current models struggle to obtain coherent image captions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-18 Tommaso Galliena , Tommaso Apicella , Stefano Rosa , Pietro Morerio , Alessio Del Bue , Lorenzo Natale

In visual question answering (VQA), an algorithm must answer text-based questions about images. While multiple datasets for VQA have been created since late 2014, they all have flaws in both their content and the way algorithms are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-09-15 Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

Humans observe and interact with the world to acquire knowledge. However, most existing machine reading comprehension (MRC) tasks miss the interactive, information-seeking component of comprehension. Such tasks present models with static…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-08-30 Xingdi Yuan , Marc-Alexandre Cote , Jie Fu , Zhouhan Lin , Christopher Pal , Yoshua Bengio , Adam Trischler

The concept of an embodied intelligent agent is a key concept in modern artificial intelligence and robotics. Physically, an agent is an open system embedded in an environment that it interacts with through sensors and actuators. It…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Michael. J. Kewming , Sally Shrapnel , Gerard. J. Milburn

Table Question Answering (TQA) is an important but under-explored task. Most of the existing QA datasets are in unstructured text format and only few of them use tables as the context. To the best of our knowledge, none of TQA datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Man Luo , Sharad Saxena , Swaroop Mishra , Mihir Parmar , Chitta Baral

The usage and amount of information available on the internet increase over the past decade. This digitization leads to the need for automated answering system to extract fruitful information from redundant and transitional knowledge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-03 Hariom A. Pandya , Brijesh S. Bhatt

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has been a widely studied topic, with extensive research focusing on how VLMs respond to answerable questions based on real-world images. However, there has been limited exploration of how these models handle…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-24 Asir Saadat , Syem Aziz , Shahriar Mahmud , Abdullah Ibne Masud Mahi , Sabbir Ahmed

The complex compositional structure of language makes problems at the intersection of vision and language challenging. But language also provides a strong prior that can result in good superficial performance, without the underlying models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-04-20 Peng Zhang , Yash Goyal , Douglas Summers-Stay , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh

Can we develop visually grounded dialog agents that can efficiently adapt to new tasks without forgetting how to talk to people? Such agents could leverage a larger variety of existing data to generalize to new tasks, minimizing expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-28 Michael Cogswell , Jiasen Lu , Rishabh Jain , Stefan Lee , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

An embodied task such as embodied question answering (EmbodiedQA), requires an agent to explore the environment and collect clues to answer a given question that related with specific objects in the scene. The solution of such task usually…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Yang Wu , Shirui Feng , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Unsupervised question answering is an attractive task due to its independence on labeled data. Previous works usually make use of heuristic rules as well as pre-trained models to construct data and train QA models. However, most of these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-08-24 Yuxiang Nie , Heyan Huang , Zewen Chi , Xian-Ling Mao

When a model is trying to gather information in an interactive setting, it benefits from asking informative questions. However, in the case of a grounded multi-turn image identification task, previous studies have been constrained to polar…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Sedrick Keh , Justin T. Chiu , Daniel Fried