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Robots often face manipulation tasks in environments where vision is inadequate due to clutter, occlusions, or poor lighting--for example, reaching a shutoff valve at the back of a sink cabinet or locating a light switch above a crowded…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Muhammad Suhail Saleem , Lai Yuan , Maxim Likhachev

Web question answering (QA) has become an indispensable component in modern search systems, which can significantly improve users' search experience by providing a direct answer to users' information need. This could be achieved by applying…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-07-12 Lixin Su , Jiafeng Guo , Yixing Fan , Yanyan Lan , Xueqi Cheng

Neural Module Networks (NMNs) aim at Visual Question Answering (VQA) via composition of modules that tackle a sub-task. NMNs are a promising strategy to achieve systematic generalization, i.e., overcoming biasing factors in the training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Vanessa D'Amario , Tomotake Sasaki , Xavier Boix

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task that requires systems to provide accurate answers to questions based on image content. Current VQA models struggle with complex questions due to limitations in capturing and integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Peiyuan Chen , Zecheng Zhang , Yiping Dong , Li Zhou , Han Wang

Complex question-answering (CQA) involves answering complex natural-language questions on a knowledge base (KB). However, the conventional neural program induction (NPI) approach exhibits uneven performance when the questions have different…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Yuncheng Hua , Yuan-Fang Li , Gholamreza Haffari , Guilin Qi , Tongtong Wu

Questions convey information about the questioner, namely what one does not know. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to allow a learning agent to ask what it considers as tricky to predict, in the course of producing a final output.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-11-14 Sungmin Kang , David Keetae Park , Jaehyuk Chang , Jaegul Choo

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has been a popular task that combines vision and language, with numerous relevant implementations in literature. Even though there are some attempts that approach explainability and robustness issues in VQA…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Theodoti Stoikou , Maria Lymperaiou , Giorgos Stamou

We used a 3D simulator to create artificial video data with standardized annotations, aiming to aid in the development of Embodied AI. Our question answering (QA) dataset measures the extent to which a robot can understand human behavior…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-09-18 Takanori Ugai , Kensho Hara , Shusaku Egami , Ken Fukuda

Multimodal question answering tasks can be used as proxy tasks to study systems that can perceive and reason about the world. Answering questions about different types of input modalities stresses different aspects of reasoning such as…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-11-22 Haytham M. Fayek , Justin Johnson

Medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) is a machine learning task that aims to create a system that can answer natural language questions based on given medical images. Although there has been rapid progress on the general VQA task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Louisa Canepa , Sonit Singh , Arcot Sowmya

Visual question answering (VQA) refers to the problem where, given an image and a natural language question about the image, a correct natural language answer has to be generated. A VQA model has to demonstrate both the visual understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Raihan Kabir , Naznin Haque , Md Saiful Islam , Marium-E-Jannat

This paper presents a framework towards prompting multi-robot teams with high-level tasks using natural language expressions. Our objective is to use the reasoning capabilities demonstrated by recent language models in understanding and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Nicolas Pfitzer , Eduardo Sebastián , Ajay Shankar , Amanda Prorok

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has been primarily studied through the lens of the English language. Yet, tackling VQA in other languages in the same manner would require a considerable amount of resources. In this paper, we propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Soravit Changpinyo , Linting Xue , Michal Yarom , Ashish V. Thapliyal , Idan Szpektor , Julien Amelot , Xi Chen , Radu Soricut

Complex knowledge base question answering can be achieved by converting questions into sequences of predefined actions. However, there is a significant semantic and structural gap between natural language and action sequences, which makes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Yechun Tang , Xiaoxia Cheng , Weiming Lu

Decision making for autonomous driving in urban environments is challenging due to the complexity of the road structure and the uncertainty in the behavior of diverse road users. Traditional methods consist of manually designed rules as the…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Niranjan Deshpande , Dominique Vaufreydaz , Anne Spalanzani

Vision-language-action models (VLAs) have become an increasingly popular approach for addressing robot manipulation problems in recent years. However, such models need to output actions at a rate suitable for robot control, which limits the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Eric Hannus , Miika Malin , Tran Nguyen Le , Ville Kyrki

Modular robots can be tailored to achieve specific tasks and rearranged to achieve previously infeasible ones. The challenge is choosing an appropriate design from a large search space. In this work, we describe a framework that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-06-18 Thais Campos , Hadas Kress-Gazit

Existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) models are often fragile and sensitive to input variations. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to address this issue based on modular networks, which creates two questions related by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Spencer Whitehead , Hui Wu , Yi Ren Fung , Heng Ji , Rogerio Feris , Kate Saenko

The object manipulation is a crucial ability for a service robot, but it is hard to solve with reinforcement learning due to some reasons such as sample efficiency. In this paper, to tackle this object manipulation, we propose a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Dongwon Son , Myungsin Kim , Jaecheol Sim , Wonsik Shin

We describe a new class of learning models called memory networks. Memory networks reason with inference components combined with a long-term memory component; they learn how to use these jointly. The long-term memory can be read and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-12-01 Jason Weston , Sumit Chopra , Antoine Bordes