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Neural Module Networks (NMN) are a compelling method for visual question answering, enabling the translation of a question into a program consisting of a series of reasoning sub-tasks that are sequentially executed on the image to produce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-25 Wafa Aissa , Marin Ferecatu , Michel Crucianu

We marry two powerful ideas: deep representation learning for visual recognition and language understanding, and symbolic program execution for reasoning. Our neural-symbolic visual question answering (NS-VQA) system first recovers a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-16 Kexin Yi , Jiajun Wu , Chuang Gan , Antonio Torralba , Pushmeet Kohli , Joshua B. Tenenbaum

Neurosymbolic Programming (NP) techniques have the potential to accelerate scientific discovery. These models combine neural and symbolic components to learn complex patterns and representations from data, using high-level concepts or known…

Pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved promising success in many fields, especially with prompt learning paradigm. In this work, we propose GIP-COL (Graph-Injected Soft Prompting for COmpositional Learning) to better…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-13 Guangyue Xu , Joyce Chai , Parisa Kordjamshidi

People grasp flexible visual concepts from a few examples. We explore a neurosymbolic system that learns how to infer programs that capture visual concepts in a domain-general fashion. We introduce Template Programs: programmatic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-11 R. Kenny Jones , Siddhartha Chaudhuri , Daniel Ritchie

In the rapidly advancing field of conditional image generation research, challenges such as limited explainability lie in effectively evaluating the performance and capabilities of various models. This paper introduces VIEScore, a Visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Max Ku , Dongfu Jiang , Cong Wei , Xiang Yue , Wenhu Chen

The world is fundamentally compositional, so it is natural to think of visual recognition as the recognition of basic visually primitives that are composed according to well-defined rules. This strategy allows us to recognize unseen complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-01-29 Rodrigo Santa Cruz , Basura Fernando , Anoop Cherian , Stephen Gould

Temporal grounding is the task of locating a specific segment from an untrimmed video according to a query sentence. This task has achieved significant momentum in the computer vision community as it enables activity grounding beyond…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-16 Juncheng Li , Siliang Tang , Linchao Zhu , Wenqiao Zhang , Yi Yang , Tat-Seng Chua , Fei Wu , Yueting Zhuang

Broadly intelligent agents should form task-specific abstractions that selectively expose the essential elements of a task, while abstracting away the complexity of the raw sensorimotor space. In this work, we present Neuro-Symbolic…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Yichao Liang , Nishanth Kumar , Hao Tang , Adrian Weller , Joshua B. Tenenbaum , Tom Silver , João F. Henriques , Kevin Ellis

Despite exciting recent results showing vision-language systems' capacity to reason about images using natural language, their capacity for video reasoning remains under-explored. We motivate framing video reasoning as the sequential…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-10 Vaishnavi Himakunthala , Andy Ouyang , Daniel Rose , Ryan He , Alex Mei , Yujie Lu , Chinmay Sonar , Michael Saxon , William Yang Wang

While today's large language models exhibit impressive abilities in generating human-like text, they require massive amounts of data during training. We here take inspiration from human cognitive development to train models in limited data…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Badr AlKhamissi , Yingtian Tang , Abdülkadir Gökce , Johannes Mehrer , Martin Schrimpf

Language-guided navigation is a cornerstone of embodied AI, enabling agents to interpret language instructions and navigate complex environments. However, expert-provided instructions are limited in quantity, while synthesized annotations…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Zongtao He , Liuyi Wang , Lu Chen , Chengju Liu , Qijun Chen

Robots operating in the real world require both rich manipulation skills as well as the ability to semantically reason about when to apply those skills. Towards this goal, recent works have integrated semantic representations from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-28 Renhao Wang , Jiayuan Mao , Joy Hsu , Hang Zhao , Jiajun Wu , Yang Gao

Visual reasoning, particularly spatial reasoning, is a challenging cognitive task that requires understanding object relationships and their interactions within complex environments, especially in robotics domain. Existing vision_language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Simindokht Jahangard , Mehrzad Mohammadi , Abhinav Dhall , Hamid Rezatofighi

We present Scallop, a language which combines the benefits of deep learning and logical reasoning. Scallop enables users to write a wide range of neurosymbolic applications and train them in a data- and compute-efficient manner. It achieves…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2023-04-12 Ziyang Li , Jiani Huang , Mayur Naik

We propose a modular framework that leverages the expertise of different foundation models over different modalities and domains in order to perform a single, complex, multi-modal task, without relying on prompt engineering or otherwise…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Daniela Ben-David , Tzuf Paz-Argaman , Reut Tsarfaty

How does one adapt a pre-trained visual model to novel downstream tasks without task-specific finetuning or any model modification? Inspired by prompting in NLP, this paper investigates visual prompting: given input-output image example(s)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-02 Amir Bar , Yossi Gandelsman , Trevor Darrell , Amir Globerson , Alexei A. Efros

Referring expression comprehension (REF) aims at identifying a particular object in a scene by a natural language expression. It requires joint reasoning over the textual and visual domains to solve the problem. Some popular referring…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-03 Zhenfang Chen , Peng Wang , Lin Ma , Kwan-Yee K. Wong , Qi Wu

Cross-task generalization is a core challenge in open-world robotic manipulation, and the key lies in extracting transferable manipulation knowledge from seen tasks. Recent in-context learning approaches leverage seen task demonstrations to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Xitie Zhang , Aming Wu , Yahong Han

Conditional text generation often requires lexical constraints, i.e., which words should or shouldn't be included in the output text. While the dominant recipe for conditional text generation has been large-scale pretrained language models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Ximing Lu , Peter West , Rowan Zellers , Ronan Le Bras , Chandra Bhagavatula , Yejin Choi