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Visual question answering (VQA) systems are emerging from a desire to empower users to ask any natural language question about visual content and receive a valid answer in response. However, close examination of the VQA problem reveals an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-08-30 Danna Gurari , Kristen Grauman

Humans construct internal world models and reason by manipulating the concepts within these models. Recent advances in AI, particularly chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, approximate such human cognitive abilities, where world models are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jialong Wu , Xiaoying Zhang , Hongyi Yuan , Xiangcheng Zhang , Tianhao Huang , Changjing He , Chaoyi Deng , Renrui Zhang , Youbin Wu , Mingsheng Long

Answering semantically-complicated questions according to an image is challenging in Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. Although the image can be well represented by deep learning, the question is always simply embedded and cannot well…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-15 JianJian Cao , Xiameng Qin , Sanyuan Zhao , Jianbing Shen

The predominant approach to visual question answering (VQA) relies on encoding the image and question with a "black-box" neural encoder and decoding a single token as the answer like "yes" or "no". Despite this approach's strong…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-24 Weixin Liang , Feiyang Niu , Aishwarya Reganti , Govind Thattai , Gokhan Tur

Visual question answering (VQA) models respond to open-ended natural language questions about images. While VQA is an increasingly popular area of research, it is unclear to what extent current VQA architectures learn key semantic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-25 Gabriel Grand , Aron Szanto , Yoon Kim , Alexander Rush

Reasoning is a critical ability towards complete visual understanding. To develop machine with cognition-level visual understanding and reasoning abilities, the visual commonsense reasoning (VCR) task has been introduced. In VCR, given a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Dandan Song , Siyi Ma , Zhanchen Sun , Sicheng Yang , Lejian Liao

Counting serves as a simple but powerful test of a Large Vision-Language Model's (LVLM's) reasoning; it forces the model to identify each individual object and then add them all up. In this study, we investigate how LVLMs implement counting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Liwei Che , Zhiyu Xue , Yihao Quan , Benlin Liu , Zeru Shi , Michelle Hurst , Jacob Feldman , Ruixiang Tang , Ranjay Krishna , Vladimir Pavlovic

Large pre-trained vision and language models have demonstrated remarkable capacities for various tasks. However, solving the knowledge-based visual reasoning tasks remains challenging, which requires a model to comprehensively understand…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Zhenfang Chen , Qinhong Zhou , Yikang Shen , Yining Hong , Hao Zhang , Chuang Gan

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging multimodal task to answer questions about an image. Many works concentrate on how to reduce language bias which makes models answer questions ignoring visual content and language context.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Chao Yang , Su Feng , Dongsheng Li , Huawei Shen , Guoqing Wang , Bin Jiang

Recent research has increasingly focused on multimodal mathematical reasoning, particularly emphasizing the creation of relevant datasets and benchmarks. Despite this, the role of visual information in reasoning has been underexplored. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Yufang Liu , Yao Du , Tao Ji , Jianing Wang , Yang Liu , Yuanbin Wu , Aimin Zhou , Mengdi Zhang , Xunliang Cai

In this paper, we propose a new dataset, ReasonVQA, for the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. Our dataset is automatically integrated with structured encyclopedic knowledge and constructed using a low-cost framework, which is capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Duong T. Tran , Trung-Kien Tran , Manfred Hauswirth , Danh Le Phuoc

Image-text matching has been a hot research topic bridging the vision and language areas. It remains challenging because the current representation of image usually lacks global semantic concepts as in its corresponding text caption. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Kunpeng Li , Yulun Zhang , Kai Li , Yuanyuan Li , Yun Fu

The collaborative reasoning for understanding each image-question pair is very critical but under-explored for an interpretable Visual Question Answering (VQA) system. Although very recent works also tried the explicit compositional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-04-03 Qingxing Cao , Xiaodan Liang , Bailing Li , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Agentic multimodal models should not only comprehend text and images, but also actively invoke external tools, such as code execution environments and web search, and integrate these operations into reasoning. In this work, we introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Jack Hong , Chenxiao Zhao , ChengLin Zhu , Weiheng Lu , Guohai Xu , Xing Yu

When faced with complex problems, we tend to engage in slower, more deliberate thinking. In contrast, for simple questions we give quick, intuitive responses. This dual-system thinking approach allows us to allocate cognitive resources…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Chenyu Lin , Cheng Chi , Jinlin Wu , Sharon Li , Kaiyang Zhou

With the breakthrough of multi-modal large language models, answering complex visual questions that demand advanced reasoning abilities and world knowledge has become a much more important testbed for developing AI models than ever.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Haibo Wang , Weifeng Ge

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have recently demonstrated remarkable visual understanding performance on both vision-language and vision-centric tasks. However, they often fall short in integrating advanced, task-specific capabilities for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-28 Yufei Zhan , Hongyin Zhao , Yousong Zhu , Shurong Zheng , Fan Yang , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Instruction-driven image editing with unified multimodal generative models has advanced rapidly, yet their underlying visual reasoning remains limited, leading to suboptimal performance on reasoning-centric edits. Reinforcement learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Hengjia Li , Liming Jiang , Qing Yan , Yizhi Song , Hao Kang , Zichuan Liu , Xin Lu , Boxi Wu , Deng Cai

Bootstrapping from pre-trained language models has been proven to be an efficient approach for building vision-language models (VLM) for tasks such as image captioning or visual question answering. However, outputs of these models rarely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-01 Manuel Brack , Patrick Schramowski , Björn Deiseroth , Kristian Kersting

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenge task that combines natural language processing and computer vision techniques and gradually becomes a benchmark test task in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). The goal of our survey is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Jiayi Kuang , Jingyou Xie , Haohao Luo , Ronghao Li , Zhe Xu , Xianfeng Cheng , Yinghui Li , Xika Lin , Ying Shen