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Visual question answering (VQA) is an interesting learning setting for evaluating the abilities and shortcomings of current systems for image understanding. Many of the recently proposed VQA systems include attention or memory mechanisms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Allan Jabri , Armand Joulin , Laurens van der Maaten

Question answering methods are well-known for leveraging data bias, such as the language prior in visual question answering and the position bias in machine reading comprehension (extractive question answering). Current debiasing methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Jie Ma , Pinghui Wang , Zewei Wang , Dechen Kong , Min Hu , Ting Han , Jun Liu

To avoid giving wrong answers, question answering (QA) models need to know when to abstain from answering. Moreover, users often ask questions that diverge from the model's training data, making errors more likely and thus abstention more…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-18 Amita Kamath , Robin Jia , Percy Liang

Vision-and-language (V&L) models pretrained on large-scale multimodal data have demonstrated strong performance on various tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering (VQA). The quality of such models is commonly assessed…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Aishwarya Agrawal , Ivana Kajić , Emanuele Bugliarello , Elnaz Davoodi , Anita Gergely , Phil Blunsom , Aida Nematzadeh

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is the task of answering questions about an image. Some VQA models often exploit unimodal biases to provide the correct answer without using the image information. As a result, they suffer from a huge drop in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-03-24 Remi Cadene , Corentin Dancette , Hedi Ben-younes , Matthieu Cord , Devi Parikh

Benefiting from large-scale pretrained vision language models (VLMs), the performance of visual question answering (VQA) has approached human oracles. However, finetuning such models on limited data often suffers from overfitting and poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-09 Jingjing Jiang , Ziyi Liu , Nanning Zheng

Visual Question Answering (VQA) deep-learning systems tend to capture superficial statistical correlations in the training data because of strong language priors and fail to generalize to test data with a significantly different…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Jialin Wu , Raymond J. Mooney

Teaching Visual Question Answering (VQA) models to refrain from answering unanswerable questions is necessary for building a trustworthy AI system. Existing studies, though have explored various aspects of VQA but somewhat ignored this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-22 Yangyang Guo , Fangkai Jiao , Zhiqi Shen , Liqiang Nie , Mohan Kankanhalli

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) achieve ever-stronger performance on visual-language tasks. Even as traditional visual question answering (VQA) benchmarks approach saturation, reliable deployment requires satisfying low error…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Hector G. Rodriguez , Marcus Rohrbach

One of the most intriguing features of the Visual Question Answering (VQA) challenge is the unpredictability of the questions. Extracting the information required to answer them demands a variety of image operations from detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-12-19 Peng Wang , Qi Wu , Chunhua Shen , Anton van den Hengel

Zero-shot Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a prominent vision-language task that examines both the visual and textual understanding capability of systems in the absence of training data. Recently, by converting the images into captions,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-16 Yunshi Lan , Xiang Li , Xin Liu , Yang Li , Wei Qin , Weining Qian

This paper focuses on the Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) task that aims to answer questions derived from untrimmed audible videos. To generate accurate answers, an AVQA model is expected to find the most informative audio-visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Zhangbin Li , Dan Guo , Jinxing Zhou , Jing Zhang , Meng Wang

3D Visual Question Answering (3D VQA) is crucial for enabling models to perceive the physical world and perform spatial reasoning. In 3D VQA, the free-form nature of answers often leads to improper annotations that can confuse or mislead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shengli Zhou , Yang Liu , Feng Zheng

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models play a critical role in enhancing the perception capabilities of autonomous driving systems by allowing vehicles to analyze visual inputs alongside textual queries, fostering natural interaction and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Kaavya Rekanar , Martin Hayes , Ganesh Sistu , Ciaran Eising

Abstention Ability (AA) is a critical aspect of Large Language Model (LLM) reliability, referring to an LLM's capability to withhold responses when uncertain or lacking a definitive answer, without compromising performance. Although…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Nishanth Madhusudhan , Sathwik Tejaswi Madhusudhan , Vikas Yadav , Masoud Hashemi

Large Language Models (LLMs) have become a crucial tool in Visual Question Answering (VQA) for handling knowledge-intensive questions in few-shot or zero-shot scenarios. However, their reliance on massive training datasets often causes them…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Quanxing Xu , Ling Zhou , Feifei Zhang , Jinyu Tian , Rubing Huang

Selective prediction aims to endow predictors with a reject option, to avoid low confidence predictions. However, existing literature has primarily focused on closed-set tasks, such as visual question answering with predefined options or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-02 Aditya Sarkar , Yi Li , Jiacheng Cheng , Shlok Mishra , Nuno Vasconcelos

Visual Question Answering (VQA) presents a unique challenge by requiring models to understand and reason about visual content to answer questions accurately. Existing VQA models often struggle with biases introduced by the training data,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Zhifei Li , Feng Qiu , Yiran Wang , Yujing Xia , Kui Xiao , Miao Zhang , Yan Zhang

Typical active learning strategies are designed for tasks, such as classification, with the assumption that the output space is mutually exclusive. The assumption that these tasks always have exactly one correct answer has resulted in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-10 Khaled Jedoui , Ranjay Krishna , Michael Bernstein , Li Fei-Fei

Despite significant costs from retrieving and processing high-fidelity visual inputs, most multimodal vision-language systems operate at fixed fidelity levels. We introduce VOILA, a framework for Value-Of-Information-driven adaptive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Rahul Atul Bhope , K. R. Jayaram , Vinod Muthusamy , Ritesh Kumar , Vatche Isahagian , Nalini Venkatasubramanian