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Learning interpretable and disentangled representations is a crucial yet challenging task in representation learning. In this work, we focus on semi-supervised disentanglement learning and extend work by Locatello et al. (2019) by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-24 Weili Nie , Zichao Wang , Ankit B. Patel , Richard G. Baraniuk

Visual question answering (VQA) task not only bridges the gap between images and language, but also requires that specific contents within the image are understood as indicated by linguistic context of the question, in order to generate the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-05 Kuniaki Saito , Andrew Shin , Yoshitaka Ushiku , Tatsuya Harada

Though beneficial for encouraging the Visual Question Answering (VQA) models to discover the underlying knowledge by exploiting the input-output correlation beyond image and text contexts, the existing knowledge VQA datasets are mostly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Qingxing Cao , Bailin Li , Xiaodan Liang , Keze Wang , Liang Lin

Exploration is essential for general-purpose robotic learning, especially in open-ended environments where dense rewards, explicit goals, or task-specific supervision are scarce. Vision-language models (VLMs), with their semantic reasoning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Seungjae Lee , Daniel Ekpo , Haowen Liu , Furong Huang , Abhinav Shrivastava , Jia-Bin Huang

Recent advances in large vision-language models (VLMs) typically employ vision encoders based on the Vision Transformer (ViT) architecture. The division of the images into patches by ViT results in a fragmented perception, thereby hindering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Jingyi Wang , Jianzhong Ju , Jian Luan , Zhidong Deng

Recent work has shown that NLP tasks such as Relation Extraction (RE) can be recasted as Textual Entailment tasks using verbalizations, with strong performance in zero-shot and few-shot settings thanks to pre-trained entailment models. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Oscar Sainz , Itziar Gonzalez-Dios , Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Bonan Min , Eneko Agirre

The goal of a classification model is to assign the correct labels to data. In most cases, this data is not fully described by the given set of labels. Often a rich set of meaningful concepts exist in the domain that can much more precisely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-08-23 Yoeri Poels , Vlado Menkovski

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for image understanding tasks, yet their practical deployment remains hindered by significant architectural heterogeneity across model families. This paper introduces UVLM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Joan Perez , Giovanni Fusco

The multimodal task of Visual Question Answering (VQA) encompassing elements of Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP), aims to generate answers to questions on any visual input. Over time, the scope of VQA has expanded…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Md Farhan Ishmam , Md Sakib Hossain Shovon , M. F. Mridha , Nilanjan Dey

Visual grounding is a task to locate the target indicated by a natural language expression. Existing methods extend the generic object detection framework to this problem. They base the visual grounding on the features from pre-generated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-09 Li Yang , Yan Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Wei Liu , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has attracted much attention since it offers insight into the relationships between the multi-modal analysis of images and natural language. Most of the current algorithms are incapable of answering…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-05 Guohao Li , Hang Su , Wenwu Zhu

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

Recent generalist vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks. However, these models still struggle with fine-grained object-level understanding and grounding. In terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Timothy Ossowski , Junjie Hu

Current multimodal models, aimed at solving Vision and Language (V+L) tasks, predominantly repurpose Vision Encoders (VE) as feature extractors. While many VEs -- of different architectures, trained on different data and objectives -- are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Gregor Geigle , Chen Cecilia Liu , Jonas Pfeiffer , Iryna Gurevych

Inference in natural language often involves recognizing lexical entailment (RLE); that is, identifying whether one word entails another. For example, "buy" entails "own". Two general strategies for RLE have been proposed: One strategy is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-06-02 Peter D. Turney , Saif M. Mohammad

Answer grounding aims to reveal the visual evidence for visual question answering (VQA), which entails highlighting relevant positions in the image when answering questions about images. Previous attempts typically tackle this problem using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-13 Junwen Pan , Guanlin Chen , Yi Liu , Jiexiang Wang , Cheng Bian , Pengfei Zhu , Zhicheng Zhang

Visual question answering (VQA) demands simultaneous comprehension of both the image visual content and natural language questions. In some cases, the reasoning needs the help of common sense or general knowledge which usually appear in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-11-30 Hui Li , Peng Wang , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Reasoning about visual relationships is central to how humans interpret the visual world. This task remains challenging for current deep learning algorithms since it requires addressing three key technical problems jointly: 1) identifying…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Xiaojian Ma , Weili Nie , Zhiding Yu , Huaizu Jiang , Chaowei Xiao , Yuke Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu , Anima Anandkumar

Visual question answering (or VQA) is a new and exciting problem that combines natural language processing and computer vision techniques. We present a survey of the various datasets and models that have been used to tackle this task. The…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-05-12 Akshay Kumar Gupta

Visual question answering has been an exciting challenge in the field of natural language understanding, as it requires deep learning models to exchange information from both vision and language domains. In this project, we aim to tackle a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Tai Vu , Robert Yang