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This work explores enabling Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning to link visual cues across multiple images. A straightforward solution is to adapt rule-based reinforcement learning for Vision-Language Models (VLMs). However, such methods…

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The intersection of medical Visual Question Answering (Med-VQA) is a challenging research topic with advantages including patient engagement and clinical expert involvement for second opinions. However, existing Med-VQA methods based on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-24 Lin Fan , Xun Gong , Cenyang Zheng , Yafei Ou

We study how to extend chain-of-thought (CoT) beyond language to better handle multimodal reasoning. While CoT helps LLMs and VLMs articulate intermediate steps, its text-only form often fails on vision-intensive problems where key…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Yifei Shao , Kun Zhou , Ziming Xu , Mohammad Atif Quamar , Shibo Hao , Zhen Wang , Zhiting Hu , Biwei Huang

In recent advancements, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been fine-tuned on specific medical image datasets to address medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) tasks. However, this common approach of task-specific…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-08 Lai Wei , Wenkai Wang , Xiaoyu Shen , Yu Xie , Zhihao Fan , Xiaojin Zhang , Zhongyu Wei , Wei Chen

In this paper, we propose a method to obtain robust explanations for visual question answering(VQA) that correlate well with the answers. Our model explains the answers obtained through a VQA model by providing visual and textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-01-24 Badri N. Patro , Shivansh Pate , Vinay P. Namboodiri

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities by integrating pre-trained vision encoders with large language models (LLMs). Similar to single-modal LLMs, chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting has been adapted for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Shin'ya Yamaguchi , Kosuke Nishida , Daiki Chijiwa

Reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) has recently attracted significant attention due to its broad applicability across diverse downstream tasks. However, it remains unclear whether the superior performance of VLMs stems from genuine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yige Xu , Yongjie Wang , Zizhuo Wu , Kaisong Song , Jun Lin , Zhiqi Shen

Part of the appeal of Visual Question Answering (VQA) is its promise to answer new questions about previously unseen images. Most current methods demand training questions that illustrate every possible concept, and will therefore never…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-22 Damien Teney , Anton van den Hengel

Existing benchmarks for visual question answering lack in visual grounding and complexity, particularly in evaluating spatial reasoning skills. We introduce FlowVQA, a novel benchmark aimed at assessing the capabilities of visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Shubhankar Singh , Purvi Chaurasia , Yerram Varun , Pranshu Pandya , Vatsal Gupta , Vivek Gupta , Dan Roth

Spatial reasoning from monocular images is essential for autonomous driving, yet current Vision-Language Models (VLMs) still struggle with fine-grained geometric perception, particularly under large scale variation and ambiguous object…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yanchun Cheng , Rundong Wang , Xulei Yang , Alok Prakash , Daniela Rus , Marcelo H Ang , ShiJie Li

This paper presents an in-depth study of multimodal machine translation (MMT), examining the prevailing understanding that MMT systems exhibit decreased sensitivity to visual information when text inputs are complete. Instead, we attribute…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Yuxin Zuo , Bei Li , Chuanhao Lv , Tong Zheng , Tong Xiao , Jingbo Zhu

Visual question answering (VQA) refers to the problem where, given an image and a natural language question about the image, a correct natural language answer has to be generated. A VQA model has to demonstrate both the visual understanding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Raihan Kabir , Naznin Haque , Md Saiful Islam , Marium-E-Jannat

We present MMFT-BERT(MultiModal Fusion Transformer with BERT encodings), to solve Visual Question Answering (VQA) ensuring individual and combined processing of multiple input modalities. Our approach benefits from processing multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-28 Aisha Urooj Khan , Amir Mazaheri , Niels da Vitoria Lobo , Mubarak Shah

There is a key problem in the medical visual question answering task that how to effectively realize the feature fusion of language and medical images with limited datasets. In order to better utilize multi-scale information of medical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Shanshan Song , Jiangyun Li , Jing Wang , Yuanxiu Cai , Wenkai Dong

Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as one of the most challenging tasks in artificial intelligence due to its multi-modal nature. However, most existing VQA methods are incapable of handling Knowledge-based Visual Question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Chengxiang Yin , Zhengping Che , Kun Wu , Zhiyuan Xu , Jian Tang

Multi-modal multi-hop question answering involves answering a question by reasoning over multiple input sources from different modalities. Existing methods often retrieve evidences separately and then use a language model to generate an…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Qian Yang , Qian Chen , Wen Wang , Baotian Hu , Min Zhang

DeepSeek-R1 has demonstrated powerful reasoning capabilities in the text domain through stable reinforcement learning (RL). Recently, in the multimodal domain, works have begun to directly apply RL to generate R1-like free-form reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Chuming Shen , Wei Wei , Xiaoye Qu , Yu Cheng

In this paper, we propose a new dataset, ReasonVQA, for the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. Our dataset is automatically integrated with structured encyclopedic knowledge and constructed using a low-cost framework, which is capable of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Duong T. Tran , Trung-Kien Tran , Manfred Hauswirth , Danh Le Phuoc

Medical visual question answering (VQA) aims to answer clinically relevant questions regarding input medical images. This technique has the potential to improve the efficiency of medical professionals while relieving the burden on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-21 Xinyue Hu , Lin Gu , Kazuma Kobayashi , Qiyuan An , Qingyu Chen , Zhiyong Lu , Chang Su , Tatsuya Harada , Yingying Zhu

Recent years have witnessed impressive results of pre-trained vision-language models on knowledge-intensive tasks such as visual question answering (VQA). Despite the recent advances in VQA, existing methods mainly adopt a discriminative…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-03 Timothy Ossowski , Junjie Hu