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Parsing questions into executable logical forms has showed impressive results for knowledge-base question answering (KBQA). However, complex KBQA is a more challenging task that requires to perform complex multi-step reasoning. Recently, a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-08 Wangzhen Guo , Linyin Luo , Hanjiang Lai , Jian Yin

The task of Outside Knowledge Visual Question Answering (OKVQA) requires an automatic system to answer natural language questions about pictures and images using external knowledge. We observe that many visual questions, which contain…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-02-10 Jiawen Zhang , Abhijit Mishra , Avinesh P. V. S , Siddharth Patwardhan , Sachin Agarwal

Many AI applications rely on knowledge about a relevant real-world domain that is encoded by means of some logical knowledge base (KB). The most essential benefit of logical KBs is the opportunity to perform automatic reasoning to derive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-05-20 Patrick Rodler

We present VISPROG, a neuro-symbolic approach to solving complex and compositional visual tasks given natural language instructions. VISPROG avoids the need for any task-specific training. Instead, it uses the in-context learning ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-22 Tanmay Gupta , Aniruddha Kembhavi

Visual question answering (VQA) has been gaining a lot of traction in the machine learning community in the recent years due to the challenges posed in understanding information coming from multiple modalities (i.e., images, language). In…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-11 Muralikrishnna G. Sethuraman , Ali Payani , Faramarz Fekri , J. Clayton Kerce

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) has become a prominent area in natural language processing due to the emergence of large-scale Knowledge Graphs (KGs). Recently Neural Machine Translation based approaches are gaining momentum that…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-21 Sukannya Purkayastha , Saswati Dana , Dinesh Garg , Dinesh Khandelwal , G P Shrivatsa Bhargav

Knowledge-based visual question answering (VQA) requires world knowledge beyond the image for accurate answer. Recently, instead of extra knowledge bases, a large language model (LLM) like GPT-3 is activated as an implicit knowledge engine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-07 Ziyu Ma , Shutao Li , Bin Sun , Jianfei Cai , Zuxiang Long , Fuyan Ma

Most existing research on visual question answering (VQA) is limited to information explicitly present in an image or a video. In this paper, we take visual understanding to a higher level where systems are challenged to answer questions…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Akshay Kumar , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

Medical vision-language pretraining (VLP) models have recently been investigated for their generalization to diverse downstream tasks. However, current medical VLP methods typically force the model to learn simple and complex concepts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Chenran Zhang , Ruiqi Wu , Tao Zhou , Yi Zhou

We propose Encyclopedic-VQA, a large scale visual question answering (VQA) dataset featuring visual questions about detailed properties of fine-grained categories and instances. It contains 221k unique question+answer pairs each matched…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Thomas Mensink , Jasper Uijlings , Lluis Castrejon , Arushi Goel , Felipe Cadar , Howard Zhou , Fei Sha , André Araujo , Vittorio Ferrari

Recent advances in deep learning have greatly propelled the research on semantic parsing. Improvement has since been made in many downstream tasks, including natural language interface to web APIs, text-to-SQL generation, among others.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-25 Yu Gu , Vardaan Pahuja , Gong Cheng , Yu Su

Knowledge Graph Question Answering (KGQA) simplifies querying vast amounts of knowledge stored in a graph-based model using natural language. However, the research has largely concentrated on English, putting non-English speakers at a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Nikit Srivastava , Mengshi Ma , Daniel Vollmers , Hamada Zahera , Diego Moussallem , Axel-Cyrille Ngonga Ngomo

Knowledge-intensive visual question answering (VQA) requires external knowledge beyond image content, demanding precise visual grounding and coherent integration of visual and textual information. Although multimodal retrieval-augmented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Changin Choi , Wonseok Lee , Jungmin Ko , Wonjong Rhee

Question answering (QA) has become a popular way for humans to access billion-scale knowledge bases. Unlike web search, QA over a knowledge base gives out accurate and concise results, provided that natural language questions can be…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-03-07 Wanyun Cui , Yanghua Xiao , Haixun Wang , Yangqiu Song , Seung-won Hwang , Wei Wang

Zero-shot visual question answering (ZS-VQA), an emerged critical research area, intends to answer visual questions without providing training samples. Existing research in ZS-VQA has proposed to leverage knowledge graphs or large language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Qian Tao , Xiaoyang Fan , Yong Xu , Xingquan Zhu , Yufei Tang

Knowledge Base Question Answering (KBQA) aims to answer natural language questions using structured knowledge from KBs. While LLM-only approaches offer generalization, they suffer from outdated knowledge, hallucinations, and lack of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Yihua Zhu , Qianying Liu , Akiko Aizawa , Hidetoshi Shimodaira

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at general visual reasoning tasks but exhibit sharp performance degradation when applied to novel domains with substantial distribution shifts from pretraining data. Existing domain adaptation…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-16 Dominick Reilly , Manish Kumar Govind , Le Xue , Srijan Das

Visual question answering requires a deep understanding of both images and natural language. However, most methods mainly focus on visual concept; such as the relationships between various objects. The limited use of object categories…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-01-25 Jung-Jun Kim , Dong-Gyu Lee , Jialin Wu , Hong-Gyu Jung , Seong-Whan Lee

The study of algorithms to automatically answer visual questions currently is motivated by visual question answering (VQA) datasets constructed in artificial VQA settings. We propose VizWiz, the first goal-oriented VQA dataset arising from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Danna Gurari , Qing Li , Abigale J. Stangl , Anhong Guo , Chi Lin , Kristen Grauman , Jiebo Luo , Jeffrey P. Bigham

Question answering over knowledge base (KB-QA) has recently become a popular research topic in NLP. One popular way to solve the KB-QA problem is to make use of a pipeline of several NLP modules, including entity discovery and linking (EDL)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-04-01 Dekun Wu , Nana Nosirova , Hui Jiang , Mingbin Xu