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Fact-based Visual Question Answering (FVQA), a challenging variant of VQA, requires a QA-system to include facts from a diverse knowledge graph (KG) in its reasoning process to produce an answer. Large KGs, especially common-sense KGs, are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Kiran Ramnath , Mark Hasegawa-Johnson

Recent advances in face super-resolution research have utilized the Transformer architecture. This method processes the input image into a series of small patches. However, because of the strong correlation between different facial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Chao Yang , Yong Fan , Cheng Lu , Minghao Yuan , Zhijing Yang

Graph Transformers (GTs) have emerged as powerful architectures for graph-structured data, yet remain constrained by rigid designs and lack quantifiable interpretability. Current state-of-the-art GTs commit to fixed GNN types across all…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Shruti Sarika Chakraborty , Peter Minary

Graph transformers typically lack third-order interactions, limiting their geometric understanding which is crucial for tasks like molecular geometry prediction. We propose the Triplet Graph Transformer (TGT) that enables direct…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Md Shamim Hussain , Mohammed J. Zaki , Dharmashankar Subramanian

Video question answering is a challenging task, which requires agents to be able to understand rich video contents and perform spatial-temporal reasoning. However, existing graph-based methods fail to perform multi-step reasoning well,…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-07-14 Jianyu Wang , Bing-Kun Bao , Changsheng Xu

Text-VQA aims at answering questions that require understanding the textual cues in an image. Despite the great progress of existing Text-VQA methods, their performance suffers from insufficient human-labeled question-answer (QA) pairs.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Jun Wang , Mingfei Gao , Yuqian Hu , Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju , Chetan Ramaiah , Ran Xu , Joseph F. JaJa , Larry S. Davis

Diagram object detection is the key basis of practical applications such as textbook question answering. Because the diagram mainly consists of simple lines and color blocks, its visual features are sparser than those of natural images. In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-02 Xin Hu , Lingling Zhang , Jun Liu , Jinfu Fan , Yang You , Yaqiang Wu

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as versatile solutions for zero-shot question answering (QA) across various domains. However, enabling VLMs to effectively comprehend structured graphs and perform accurate, efficient QA remains…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Yanbin Wei , Jiangyue Yan , Chun Kang , Yang Chen , Hua Liu , James Kwok , Yu Zhang

Spatial reasoning poses a particular challenge for intelligent agents and is at the same time a prerequisite for their successful interaction and communication in the physical world. One such reasoning task is to describe the position of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-07 Kyra Ahrens , Matthias Kerzel , Jae Hee Lee , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

We propose a novel framework for modeling the interaction between graphical structures and the natural language text associated with their nodes and edges. Existing approaches typically fall into two categories. On group ignores the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-12 Aryan Arbabi , Mingqiu Wang , Laurent El Shafey , Nan Du , Izhak Shafran

Vision Transformers (ViTs) have achieved impressive results in large-scale image classification. However, when training from scratch on small datasets, there is still a significant performance gap between ViTs and Convolutional Neural…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Dongjing Shan , guiqiang chen

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as a highly engaging field in recent years, with increasing research focused on enhancing VQA accuracy through advanced models such as Transformers. Despite this growing interest, limited work has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-22 Zhilin Zhang , Fangyu Wu

When answering questions about an image, it not only needs knowing what -- understanding the fine-grained contents (e.g., objects, relationships) in the image, but also telling why -- reasoning over grounding visual cues to derive the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Jianwei Yang , Jiayuan Mao , Jiajun Wu , Devi Parikh , David D. Cox , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Chuang Gan

Text-based visual question answering (VQA) requires to read and understand text in an image to correctly answer a given question. However, most current methods simply add optical character recognition (OCR) tokens extracted from the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Zan-Xia Jin , Heran Wu , Chun Yang , Fang Zhou , Jingyan Qin , Lei Xiao , Xu-Cheng Yin

Recent advancements in computer vision have highlighted the scalability of Vision Transformers (ViTs) across various tasks, yet challenges remain in balancing adaptability, computational efficiency, and the ability to model higher-order…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Joshua Fixelle

Hybrid question answering (HybridQA) over the financial report contains both textual and tabular data, and requires the model to select the appropriate evidence for the numerical reasoning task. Existing methods based on encoder-decoder…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Yifan Wei , Fangyu Lei , Yuanzhe Zhang , Jun Zhao , Kang Liu

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KVQA) requires external knowledge beyond the visible content to answer questions about an image. This ability is challenging but indispensable to achieve general VQA. One limitation of existing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-04 Jing Yu , Zihao Zhu , Yujing Wang , Weifeng Zhang , Yue Hu , Jianlong Tan

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

Learning to answer visual questions is a challenging task since the multi-modal inputs are within two feature spaces. Moreover, reasoning in visual question answering requires the model to understand both image and question, and align them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Peixi Xiong , Yilin Shen , Hongxia Jin

We argue that Transformers are essentially graph-to-graph models, with sequences just being a special case. Attention weights are functionally equivalent to graph edges. Our Graph-to-Graph Transformer architecture makes this ability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-30 James Henderson , Alireza Mohammadshahi , Andrei C. Coman , Lesly Miculicich