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Past work probing compositionality in sentence embedding models faces issues determining the causal impact of implicit syntax representations. Given a sentence, we construct a neural module net based on its syntax parse and train it…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-02-09 Rohan Pandey

In this paper we present a self-supervised method for representation learning utilizing two different modalities. Based on the observation that cross-modal information has a high semantic meaning we propose a method to effectively exploit…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-04-30 Nawid Sayed , Biagio Brattoli , Björn Ommer

With the powerful reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (VLMs), many recent works have explored using them for decision-making. However, most of these approaches rely solely on language-based…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-30 Yihao Sun , Zhilong Zhang , Yang Yu , Pierre-Luc Bacon

We aim to dismantle the prevalent black-box neural architectures used in complex visual reasoning tasks, into the proposed eXplainable and eXplicit Neural Modules (XNMs), which advance beyond existing neural module networks towards using…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Jiaxin Shi , Hanwang Zhang , Juanzi Li

We propose a new spatial memory module and a spatial reasoner for the Visual Grounding (VG) task. The goal of this task is to find a certain object in an image based on a given textual query. Our work focuses on integrating the regions of a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-27 Thierry Deruyttere , Guillem Collell , Marie-Francine Moens

Unsupervised neural machine translation (UNMT) has recently achieved remarkable results with only large monolingual corpora in each language. However, the uncertainty of associating target with source sentences makes UNMT theoretically an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 Yuanhang Su , Kai Fan , Nguyen Bach , C. -C. Jay Kuo , Fei Huang

Extracting temporal and representation features efficiently plays a pivotal role in understanding visual sequence information. To deal with this, we propose a new recurrent neural framework that can be stacked deep effectively. There are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-28 Bo Pang , Kaiwen Zha , Hanwen Cao , Chen Shi , Cewu Lu

In multimodal machine learning tasks, it is due to the complexity of the assignments that the network structure, in most cases, is assembled in a sophisticated way. The holistic architecture can be separated into several logical parts…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-23 Mingjie Zhou

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to integrate multimodal understanding and generation within a unified architecture, yet it remains unclear to what extent their representations are truly aligned across modalities. To investigate this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Cheng Yang , Chufan Shi , Bo Shui , Yaokang Wu , Muzi Tao , Huijuan Wang , Ivan Yee Lee , Yong Liu , Xuezhe Ma , Taylor Berg-Kirkpatrick

In our study, we propose a self-supervised neural topic model (NTM) that combines the power of NTMs and regularized self-supervised learning methods to improve performance. NTMs use neural networks to learn latent topics hidden behind the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Weiran Xu , Kengo Hirami , Koji Eguchi

Recently, unified multimodal models (UMMs) have made remarkable progress in integrating visual understanding and generation, demonstrating strong potential for complex text-to-image (T2I) tasks. Despite their theoretical promise, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Jiadong Pan , Liang Li , Yuxin Peng , Yu-Ming Tang , Shuohuan Wang , Yu Sun , Hua Wu , Qingming Huang , Haifeng Wang

Reasoning is central to human intelligence, enabling structured problem-solving across diverse tasks. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have greatly enhanced their reasoning abilities in arithmetic, commonsense, and symbolic…

The increasing availability of multimodal data across text, tables, and images presents new challenges for developing models capable of complex cross-modal reasoning. Existing methods for Multimodal Multi-hop Question Answering (MMQA) often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Qi Zhi Lim , Chin Poo Lee , Kian Ming Lim , Kalaiarasi Sonai Muthu Anbananthen

Multimodal reasoning is a challenging task that requires models to reason across multiple modalities to answer questions. Existing approaches have made progress by incorporating language and visual modalities into a two-stage reasoning…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-04 Cheng Tan , Jingxuan Wei , Zhangyang Gao , Linzhuang Sun , Siyuan Li , Ruifeng Guo , Bihui Yu , Stan Z. Li

Multimodal models have been proven to outperform text-based approaches on learning semantic representations. However, it still remains unclear what properties are encoded in multimodal representations, in what aspects do they outperform the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-23 Shaonan Wang , Jiajun Zhang , Nan Lin , Chengqing Zong

Language models demonstrate remarkable capacity to generalize representations learned in one modality to downstream tasks in other modalities. Can we trace this ability to individual neurons? We study the case where a frozen text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Sarah Schwettmann , Neil Chowdhury , Samuel Klein , David Bau , Antonio Torralba

Representing the semantics of words is a long-standing problem for the natural language processing community. Most methods compute word semantics given their textual context in large corpora. More recently, researchers attempted to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-11-10 Éloi Zablocki , Benjamin Piwowarski , Laure Soulier , Patrick Gallinari

Neural Networks (NN) has been used in many areas with great success. When a NN's structure (Model) is given, during the training steps, the parameters of the model are determined using an appropriate criterion and an optimization algorithm…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Ali Mohammad-Djafari , Ning Chu , Li Wang , Caifang Cai , Liang Yu

Multimodal learning typically relies on the assumption that all modalities are fully available during both the training and inference phases. However, in real-world scenarios, consistently acquiring complete multimodal data presents…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-18 Donggeun Kim , Taesup Kim

The mathematical representation of semantics is a key issue for Natural Language Processing (NLP). A lot of research has been devoted to finding ways of representing the semantics of individual words in vector spaces. Distributional…

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