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Data visualizations like charts are fundamental tools for quantitative analysis and decision-making across fields, requiring accurate interpretation and mathematical reasoning. The emergence of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs)…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Anku Rani , Aparna Garimella , Apoorv Saxena , Balaji Vasan Srinivasan , Paul Pu Liang

Spatial cognition is essential for human intelligence, enabling problem-solving through visual simulations rather than solely relying on verbal reasoning. However, existing AI benchmarks primarily assess verbal reasoning, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Linjie Li , Mahtab Bigverdi , Jiawei Gu , Zixian Ma , Yinuo Yang , Ziang Li , Yejin Choi , Ranjay Krishna

Human beings are fundamentally sociable -- that we generally organize our social lives in terms of relations with other people. Understanding social relations from an image has great potential for intelligent systems such as social chatbots…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Wanhua Li , Yueqi Duan , Jiwen Lu , Jianjiang Feng , Jie Zhou

A disentangled representation encodes information about the salient factors of variation in the data independently. Although it is often argued that this representational format is useful in learning to solve many real-world down-stream…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Sjoerd van Steenkiste , Francesco Locatello , Jürgen Schmidhuber , Olivier Bachem

Incorporating relational reasoning into neural networks has greatly expanded their capabilities and scope. One defining trait of relational reasoning is that it operates on a set of entities, as opposed to standard vector representations.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Qian Huang , Horace He , Abhay Singh , Yan Zhang , Ser-Nam Lim , Austin Benson

Achieving visual reasoning is a long-term goal of artificial intelligence. In the last decade, several studies have applied deep neural networks (DNNs) to the task of learning visual relations from images, with modest results in terms of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-21 Guillermo Puebla , Jeffrey S. Bowers

The design of widespread vision-and-language datasets and pre-trained encoders directly adopts, or draws inspiration from, the concepts and images of ImageNet. While one can hardly overestimate how much this benchmark contributed to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-25 Fangyu Liu , Emanuele Bugliarello , Edoardo Maria Ponti , Siva Reddy , Nigel Collier , Desmond Elliott

As a comprehensive indicator of mathematical thinking and intelligence, the number sense (Dehaene 2011) bridges the induction of symbolic concepts and the competence of problem-solving. To endow such a crucial cognitive ability to machine…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-04-28 Wenhe Zhang , Chi Zhang , Yixin Zhu , Song-Chun Zhu

We propose a simple yet robust stochastic answer network (SAN) that simulates multi-step reasoning in machine reading comprehension. Compared to previous work such as ReasoNet which used reinforcement learning to determine the number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-05-16 Xiaodong Liu , Yelong Shen , Kevin Duh , Jianfeng Gao

In Case-Based Reasoning, when the similarity assumption does not hold, the retrieval of a set of cases structurally similar to the query does not guarantee to get a reusable or revisable solution. Knowledge about the adaptability of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Luigi Portinale

We introduce the Neural State Machine, seeking to bridge the gap between the neural and symbolic views of AI and integrate their complementary strengths for the task of visual reasoning. Given an image, we first predict a probabilistic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-11-26 Drew A. Hudson , Christopher D. Manning

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance on various quantitative reasoning and knowledge benchmarks. However, many of these benchmarks are losing utility as LLMs get increasingly high scores, despite not yet…

The nature of abstract reasoning is a matter of debate. Modern artificial neural network (ANN) models, like large language models, demonstrate impressive success when tested on abstract reasoning problems. However, it has been argued that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Tomer Barak , Yonatan Loewenstein

We propose RocketScience, an open-source contrastive VLM benchmark that tests for spatial relation understanding. It is comprised of entirely new real-world image-text pairs covering mostly relative spatial understanding and the order of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-05 Nils Hoehing , Mayug Maniparambil , Ellen Rushe , Noel E. O'Connor , Anthony Ventresque

The Abstraction and Reasoning Corpus (ARC) is designed to promote research on abstract reasoning, a fundamental aspect of human intelligence. Common approaches to ARC treat it as a language-oriented problem, addressed by large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Keya Hu , Ali Cy , Linlu Qiu , Xiaoman Delores Ding , Runqian Wang , Yeyin Eva Zhu , Jacob Andreas , Kaiming He

Prediction queries are widely used across industries to perform advanced analytics and draw insights from data. They include a data processing part (e.g., for joining, filtering, cleaning, featurizing the datasets) and a machine learning…

Image super-resolution (SR) is a fast-moving field with novel architectures attracting the spotlight. However, most SR models were optimized with dated training strategies. In this work, we revisit the popular RCAN model and examine the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-28 Zudi Lin , Prateek Garg , Atmadeep Banerjee , Salma Abdel Magid , Deqing Sun , Yulun Zhang , Luc Van Gool , Donglai Wei , Hanspeter Pfister

Achieving artificial visual reasoning - the ability to answer image-related questions which require a multi-step, high-level process - is an important step towards artificial general intelligence. This multi-modal task requires learning a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-12-20 Ethan Perez , Harm de Vries , Florian Strub , Vincent Dumoulin , Aaron Courville

Visual understanding goes well beyond object recognition. With one glance at an image, we can effortlessly imagine the world beyond the pixels: for instance, we can infer people's actions, goals, and mental states. While this task is easy…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Rowan Zellers , Yonatan Bisk , Ali Farhadi , Yejin Choi

Reasoning about object affordances allows an autonomous agent to perform generalised manipulation tasks among object instances. While current approaches to grasp affordance estimation are effective, they are limited to a single hypothesis.…