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Large language models (LLMs) have mastered abundant simple and explicit commonsense knowledge through pre-training, enabling them to achieve human-like performance in simple commonsense reasoning. Nevertheless, LLMs struggle to reason with…

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The digital landscape continually evolves with multimodality, enriching the online experience for users. Creators and marketers aim to weave subtle contextual cues from various modalities into congruent content to engage users with a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Trilok Padhi , Ugur Kursuncu , Yaman Kumar , Valerie L. Shalin , Lane Peterson Fronczek

Understanding images and text together is an important aspect of cognition and building advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. As a community, we have achieved good benchmarks over language and vision domains separately, however…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) remains a significant yet challenging research problem in the realm of visual reasoning. A VCR model generally aims at answering a textual question regarding an image, followed by the rationale prediction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Zhenyang Li , Yangyang Guo , Kejie Wang , Fan Liu , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

This paper presents a new model for visual dialog, Recurrent Dual Attention Network (ReDAN), using multi-step reasoning to answer a series of questions about an image. In each question-answering turn of a dialog, ReDAN infers the answer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Zhe Gan , Yu Cheng , Ahmed El Kholy , Linjie Li , Jingjing Liu , Jianfeng Gao

Answering questions that require reading texts in an image is challenging for current models. One key difficulty of this task is that rare, polysemous, and ambiguous words frequently appear in images, e.g., names of places, products, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Difei Gao , Ke Li , Ruiping Wang , Shiguang Shan , Xilin Chen

Commonsense knowledge (CSK) supports a variety of AI applications, from visual understanding to chatbots. Prior works on acquiring CSK, such as ConceptNet, have compiled statements that associate concepts, like everyday objects or…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-05-06 Yohan Chalier , Simon Razniewski , Gerhard Weikum

Visual reasoning refers to the task of solving questions about visual information. Current visual reasoning methods typically employ pre-trained vision-language model (VLM) strategies or deep neural network approaches. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Chao Wang , Chunbai Zhang , Yongxiao Tian , Yang Zhou , Yan Peng

Commonsense knowledge-graphs (CKGs) are important resources towards building machines that can 'reason' on text or environmental inputs and make inferences beyond perception. While current CKGs encode world knowledge for a large number of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-12-19 Shantanu Jaiswal , Liu Yan , Dongkyu Choi , Kenneth Kwok

Most popular goal-oriented dialogue agents are capable of understanding the conversational context. However, with the surge of virtual assistants with screen, the next generation of agents are required to also understand screen context in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-26 Sanchit Agarwal , Jan Jezabek , Arijit Biswas , Emre Barut , Shuyang Gao , Tagyoung Chung

Existing multimodal reasoning approaches predominantly follow two paradigms: converting visual inputs into text prior to reasoning, or performing end-to-end reasoning within a unified vision-language representation space. Despite their…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-28 Yang Zhang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rui Zhao , Wujin Sun , Yidong Chen , Jiayi Ji , Qian Chen , Rongrong Ji

The "thinking with images" paradigm represents a pivotal shift in the reasoning of Vision Language Models (VLMs), moving from text-dominant chain-of-thought to image-interactive reasoning. By invoking visual tools or generating intermediate…

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Visual language is a system of communication that conveys information through symbols, shapes, and spatial arrangements. Diagrams are a typical example of a visual language depicting complex concepts and their relationships in the form of…

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Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) is a challenging task, which requires the model to leverage external knowledge for comprehending and answering questions grounded in visual content. Recent studies retrieve the knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Dongze Hao , Jian Jia , Longteng Guo , Qunbo Wang , Te Yang , Yan Li , Yanhua Cheng , Bo Wang , Quan Chen , Han Li , Jing Liu

Spatial commonsense, the knowledge about spatial position and relationship between objects (like the relative size of a lion and a girl, and the position of a boy relative to a bicycle when cycling), is an important part of commonsense…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-28 Xiao Liu , Da Yin , Yansong Feng , Dongyan Zhao

Visual Commonsense Reasoning (VCR) is a cognitive task, challenging models to answer visual questions requiring human commonsense, and to provide rationales explaining why the answers are correct. With emergence of Large Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Mingjie Ma , Zhihuan Yu , Yichao Ma , Guohui Li

Recently, there has been a heightened interest in building chatbots based on Large Language Models (LLMs) to emulate human-like qualities in multi-turn conversations. Despite having access to commonsense knowledge to better understand the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Lanrui Wang , Jiangnan Li , Chenxu Yang , Zheng Lin , Hongyin Tang , Huan Liu , Yanan Cao , Jingang Wang , Weiping Wang

Commonsense knowledge is paramount to enable intelligent systems. Typically, it is characterized as being implicit and ambiguous, hindering thereby the automation of its acquisition. To address these challenges, this paper presents…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-09-28 Ikhlas Alhussien , Erik Cambria , Zhang NengSheng

Understanding rich narratives, such as dialogues and stories, often requires natural language processing systems to access relevant knowledge from commonsense knowledge graphs. However, these systems typically retrieve facts from KGs using…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Silin Gao , Jena D. Hwang , Saya Kanno , Hiromi Wakaki , Yuki Mitsufuji , Antoine Bosselut

Answering complex questions about images is an ambitious goal for machine intelligence, which requires a joint understanding of images, text, and commonsense knowledge, as well as a strong reasoning ability. Recently, multimodal…

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