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We study the interpretability issue of task-oriented dialogue systems in this paper. Previously, most neural-based task-oriented dialogue systems employ an implicit reasoning strategy that makes the model predictions uninterpretable to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-14 Shiquan Yang , Rui Zhang , Sarah Erfani , Jey Han Lau

Existing video generation models struggle to follow complex text prompts and synthesize multiple objects, raising the need for additional grounding input for improved controllability. In this work, we propose to decompose videos into visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Weixi Feng , Chao Liu , Sifei Liu , William Yang Wang , Arash Vahdat , Weili Nie

Existing methods for visual reasoning attempt to directly map inputs to outputs using black-box architectures without explicitly modeling the underlying reasoning processes. As a result, these black-box models often learn to exploit biases…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-05-11 Justin Johnson , Bharath Hariharan , Laurens van der Maaten , Judy Hoffman , Li Fei-Fei , C. Lawrence Zitnick , Ross Girshick

Transformers have recently been shown to be capable of reliably performing logical reasoning over facts and rules expressed in natural language, but abductive reasoning - inference to the best explanation of an unexpected observation - has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-24 Nathan Young , Qiming Bao , Joshua Bensemann , Michael Witbrock

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

Humans construct internal world models and reason by manipulating the concepts within these models. Recent advances in AI, particularly chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning, approximate such human cognitive abilities, where world models are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-28 Jialong Wu , Xiaoying Zhang , Hongyi Yuan , Xiangcheng Zhang , Tianhao Huang , Changjing He , Chaoyi Deng , Renrui Zhang , Youbin Wu , Mingsheng Long

Despite advances in embodied AI, agent reasoning systems still struggle to capture the fundamental conceptual structures that humans naturally use to understand and interact with their environment. To address this, we propose a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-01 François Olivier , Zied Bouraoui

The ability to conduct logical reasoning is a fundamental aspect of intelligent human behavior, and thus an important problem along the way to human-level artificial intelligence. Traditionally, logic-based symbolic methods from the field…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-01-11 Patrick Hohenecker , Thomas Lukasiewicz

Abstract visual reasoning (AVR) enables humans to quickly discover and generalize abstract rules to new scenarios. Designing intelligent systems with human-like AVR abilities has been a long-standing topic in the artificial intelligence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Fan Shi , Bin Li , Xiangyang Xue

Leveraging the universal representations of pre-trained LLMs and MLLMs offers a promising path toward brain foundation models. However, visually-evoked EEG datasets remain scarce, leading existing methods to align neural signals mainly with…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jun-Yu Pan , Yansen Wang , Enze Zhang , Bao-Liang Lu , Wei-Long Zheng , Dongsheng Li

For domains that involve numerical simulation, it can be computationally expensive to run an ensemble of simulations spanning a parameter space of interest to a user. To this end, an attractive surrogate for simulation is the generative…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-13 Xiaohan Wang , Matthew Berger

Unified multimodal models can encode visual understanding and image generation within a shared backbone, yet understanding does not automatically translate into control: models may infer objects, relations, or knowledge cues but fail to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Fuxiang Zhai , Sixiang Chen , Yingjin Li , Shuaibo Li , Jianyu Lai , Tengjun Huang , Lei Zhu

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems power the world we live in. Deep neural networks (DNNs) are able to solve tasks in an ever-expanding landscape of scenarios, but our eagerness to apply these powerful models leads us to focus on their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-22 Loris Giulivi , Mark James Carman , Giacomo Boracchi

Automated rationale generation is an approach for real-time explanation generation whereby a computational model learns to translate an autonomous agent's internal state and action data representations into natural language. Training on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-01-15 Upol Ehsan , Pradyumna Tambwekar , Larry Chan , Brent Harrison , Mark Riedl

Current image generation and editing methods primarily process textual prompts as direct inputs without reasoning about visual composition and explicit operations. We present Generation Chain-of-Thought (GoT), a novel paradigm that enables…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-14 Rongyao Fang , Chengqi Duan , Kun Wang , Linjiang Huang , Hao Li , Shilin Yan , Hao Tian , Xingyu Zeng , Rui Zhao , Jifeng Dai , Xihui Liu , Hongsheng Li

Existing multimodal large language models have achieved high-fidelity visual perception and exploratory visual generation. However, a precision paradox persists in complex reasoning tasks: optical perception systems transcribe symbols…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Jingxuan Wei , Honghao He , Caijun Jia , Siyuan Li , Zheng Sun , Yuhang Xu , Yuanyuan Lin , Linzhuang Sun , Yuchen Wu , Bihui Yu , Xiangxiang Zhang , Cheng Tan

Abductive logic programs offer a formalism to declaratively represent and reason about problems in a variety of areas: diagnosis, decision making, hypothetical reasoning, etc. On the other hand, logic program updates allow us to express…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2014-05-09 Ari Saptawijaya , Luís Moniz Pereira

In this paper, we address the task of semantic-guided image generation. One challenge common to most existing image-level generation methods is the difficulty in generating small objects and detailed local textures. To address this, in this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-02 Hao Tang , Ling Shao , Philip H. S. Torr , Nicu Sebe

Synthesising a text-to-image model of high-quality images by guiding the generative model through the Text description is an innovative and challenging task. In recent years, AttnGAN based on the Attention mechanism to guide GAN training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-07 Mingyu Jin , Chong Zhang , Qinkai Yu , Haochen Xue , Xiaobo Jin , Xi Yang

Diffusion models have demonstrated remarkable performance in generation tasks. Nevertheless, explaining the diffusion process remains challenging due to it being a sequence of denoising noisy images that are difficult for experts to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-19 Ji-Hoon Park , Yeong-Joon Ju , Seong-Whan Lee