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Visual reasoning with compositional natural language instructions, e.g., based on the newly-released Cornell Natural Language Visual Reasoning (NLVR) dataset, is a challenging task, where the model needs to have the ability to create an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-09-07 Hao Tan , Mohit Bansal

An image related question defines a specific visual task that is required in order to produce an appropriate answer. The answer may depend on a minor detail in the image and require complex reasoning and use of prior knowledge. When humans…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-10-26 Ben Zion Vatashsky , Shimon Ullman

Image captioning has focused on generalizing to images drawn from the same distribution as the training set, and not to the more challenging problem of generalizing to different distributions of images. Recently, Nikolaus et al. (2019)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-01-29 Emanuele Bugliarello , Desmond Elliott

Text-to-image diffusion models have shown impressive capabilities in generating realistic visuals from natural-language prompts, yet they often struggle with accurately binding attributes to corresponding objects, especially in prompts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Do Huu Dat , Nam Hyeonu , Po-Yuan Mao , Tae-Hyun Oh

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) is a challenging multimodal task that retrieves a target image based on a reference image and accompanying modification text. Due to the high cost of annotating CIR triplet datasets, zero-shot (ZS) CIR has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yabing Wang , Zhuotao Tian , Qingpei Guo , Zheng Qin , Sanping Zhou , Ming Yang , Le Wang

The visual world is fundamentally compositional. Visual scenes are defined by the composition of objects and their relations. Hence, it is essential for computer vision systems to reflect and exploit this compositionality to achieve robust…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Shuhao Fu , Andrew Jun Lee , Anna Wang , Ida Momennejad , Trevor Bihl , Hongjing Lu , Taylor W. Webb

Children can rapidly generalize compositionally-constructed rules to unseen test sets. On the other hand, deep reinforcement learning (RL) agents need to be trained over millions of episodes, and their ability to generalize to unseen…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-05-06 Zijun Lin , Haidi Azaman , M Ganesh Kumar , Cheston Tan

Compositionality of semantic concepts in image synthesis and analysis is appealing as it can help in decomposing known and generatively recomposing unknown data. For instance, we may learn concepts of changing illumination, geometry or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-29 Yunye Gong , Srikrishna Karanam , Ziyan Wu , Kuan-Chuan Peng , Jan Ernst , Peter C. Doerschuk

Compositional generalization is an important ability of language models and has many different manifestations. For data-to-text generation, previous research on this ability is limited to a single manifestation called Systematicity and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-16 Ziyao Xu , Houfeng Wang

We propose a new approach to determine correspondences between image pairs in the wild under large changes in illumination, viewpoint, context, and material. While other approaches find correspondences between pairs of images by treating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-29 Olivia Wiles , Sebastien Ehrhardt , Andrew Zisserman

In this paper we introduce a method for visually analyzing contextualized embeddings produced by deep neural network-based language models. Our approach is inspired by linguistic probes for natural language processing, where tasks are…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-09-08 Matthew Berger

Recent advancements in generative models have significantly improved novel view synthesis (NVS) from multi-view data. However, existing methods depend on external multi-view alignment processes, such as explicit pose estimation or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Lingen Li , Zhaoyang Zhang , Yaowei Li , Jiale Xu , Wenbo Hu , Xiaoyu Li , Weihao Cheng , Jinwei Gu , Tianfan Xue , Ying Shan

Grounded video description (GVD) encourages captioning models to attend to appropriate video regions (e.g., objects) dynamically and generate a description. Such a setting can help explain the decisions of captioning models and prevents the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-12-03 Wenqiao Zhang , Xin Eric Wang , Siliang Tang , Haizhou Shi , Haocheng Shi , Jun Xiao , Yueting Zhuang , William Yang Wang

State-of-the-art machine learning methods exhibit limited compositional generalization. At the same time, there is a lack of realistic benchmarks that comprehensively measure this ability, which makes it challenging to find and evaluate…

Recent work has empirically shown that Vision-Language Models (VLMs) struggle to fully understand the compositional properties of the human language, usually modeling an image caption as a "bag of words". As a result, they perform poorly on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Fiorenzo Parascandolo , Nicholas Moratelli , Enver Sangineto , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Current image-to-image translation methods formulate the task with conditional generation models, leading to learning only the recolorization or regional changes as being constrained by the rich structural information provided by the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-28 Yu-Jie Chen , Shin-I Cheng , Wei-Chen Chiu , Hung-Yu Tseng , Hsin-Ying Lee

We present a novel task and dataset for evaluating the ability of vision and language models to conduct visio-linguistic compositional reasoning, which we call Winoground. Given two images and two captions, the goal is to match them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-26 Tristan Thrush , Ryan Jiang , Max Bartolo , Amanpreet Singh , Adina Williams , Douwe Kiela , Candace Ross

Multimodal large language models have various practical applications that demand strong reasoning abilities. Despite recent advancements, these models still struggle to solve complex geometric problems. A key challenge stems from the lack…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Yue Xin , Wenyuan Wang , Rui Pan , Ruida Wang , Howard Meng , Renjie Pi , Shizhe Diao , Tong Zhang

In this paper, we consider the problem of generalised visual object counting, with the goal of developing a computational model for counting the number of objects from arbitrary semantic categories, using arbitrary number of "exemplars",…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-05 Chang Liu , Yujie Zhong , Andrew Zisserman , Weidi Xie

State of the art approaches for (embedding based) unsupervised semantic search exploits either compositional similarity (of a query and a passage) or pair-wise word (or term) similarity (from the query and the passage). By design, word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-14 Md Faisal Mahbub Chowdhury , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Rishav Chakravarti , Alfio M. Gliozzo