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In complex inferential tasks like question answering, machine learning models must confront two challenges: the need to implement a compositional reasoning process, and, in many applications, the need for this reasoning process to be…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-03-08 Ronghang Hu , Jacob Andreas , Trevor Darrell , Kate Saenko

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) is a challenging task, which requires the model to leverage external knowledge for comprehending and answering questions grounded in visual content. Recent studies retrieve the knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Dongze Hao , Jian Jia , Longteng Guo , Qunbo Wang , Te Yang , Yan Li , Yanhua Cheng , Bo Wang , Quan Chen , Han Li , Jing Liu

Recent efforts on training visual navigation agents conditioned on language using deep reinforcement learning have been successful in learning policies for different multimodal tasks, such as semantic goal navigation and embodied question…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-05 Devendra Singh Chaplot , Lisa Lee , Ruslan Salakhutdinov , Devi Parikh , Dhruv Batra

Medical Visual Question Answering (MedVQA) aims to generate clinically reliable answers conditioned on complex medical images and questions. However, existing methods often overfit to superficial cross-modal correlations, neglecting the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Zibo Xu , Qiang Li , Ke Lu , Jin Wang , Weizhi Nie , Yuting Su

Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KBVQA) necessitates external knowledge incorporation beyond cross-modal understanding. Existing KBVQA methods either utilize implicit knowledge in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) via…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Yu Zhao , Ying Zhang , Xuhui Sui , Baohang Zhou , Li Shen , Dacheng Tao

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) were designed to combine the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) with the generation capability of vision models. In practice, however, this synergy remains elusive: UMMs fail to transfer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Songlin Yang , Xianghao Kong , Anyi Rao

Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been widely applied to reasoning tasks. However, they suffer from limited multi-rationale semantic modeling, insufficient logical robustness, and are susceptible to misleading…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-08 Chuang Yu , Jinmiao Zhao , Mingxuan Zhao , Yunpeng Liu , Xiujun Shu , Yuanhao Feng , Bo Wang , Xiangyu Yue

We present a novel framework for iterative visual reasoning. Our framework goes beyond current recognition systems that lack the capability to reason beyond stack of convolutions. The framework consists of two core modules: a local module…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-30 Xinlei Chen , Li-Jia Li , Li Fei-Fei , Abhinav Gupta

Visual question answering (VQA) is a challenging multi-modal task that requires not only the semantic understanding of both images and questions, but also the sound perception of a step-by-step reasoning process that would lead to the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-04-06 Siwen Luo , Soyeon Caren Han , Kaiyuan Sun , Josiah Poon

Current Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems can answer intelligent questions about `Known' visual content. However, their performance drops significantly when questions about visually and linguistically `Unknown' concepts are presented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan , Nick Barnes

Human communication often relies on visual cues to resolve ambiguity. While humans can intuitively integrate these cues, AI systems often find it challenging to engage in sophisticated multimodal reasoning. We introduce VAGUE, a benchmark…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Heejeong Nam , Jinwoo Ahn , Keummin Ka , Jiwan Chung , Youngjae Yu

We introduce Iterated Integrated Attributions (IIA) - a generic method for explaining the predictions of vision models. IIA employs iterative integration across the input image, the internal representations generated by the model, and their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Oren Barkan , Yehonatan Elisha , Yuval Asher , Amit Eshel , Noam Koenigstein

Recent work shows that large multimodal models (LMMs) can self-improve from unlabeled data via self-play and intrinsic feedback. Yet existing self-evolving frameworks mainly reward final outcomes, leaving intermediate reasoning weakly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Meghana Sunil , Manikandarajan Venmathimaran , Muthu Subash Kavitha

Understanding images and text together is an important aspect of cognition and building advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems. As a community, we have achieved good benchmarks over language and vision domains separately, however…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-19 Shailaja Keyur Sampat , Yezhou Yang , Chitta Baral

We introduce VMMU, a Vietnamese Multitask Multimodal Understanding and Reasoning Benchmark designed to evaluate how vision-language models (VLMs) interpret and reason over visual and textual information beyond English. VMMU consists of 2.5k…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-26 Vy Tuong Dang , An Vo , Emilio Villa-Cueva , Quang Tau , Duc Dm , Thamar Solorio , Daeyoung Kim

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at many multimodal tasks, yet their cognitive processes remain opaque on complex lateral thinking challenges like rebus puzzles. While recent work has demonstrated these models struggle significantly with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-06 Prahitha Movva

Conventional video classification models, acting as effective imitators, excel in scenarios with homogeneous data distributions. However, real-world applications often present an open-instance challenge, where intra-class variations are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ke Zhang , Xiangchen Zhao , Yunjie Tian , Jiayu Zheng , Vishal M. Patel , Di Fu

Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires AI models to comprehend data in two domains, vision and text. Current state-of-the-art models use learned attention mechanisms to extract relevant information from the input domains to answer a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-03-27 Ahmed Osman , Wojciech Samek

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate enhanced capabilities and reliability by reasoning more, evolving from Chain-of-Thought prompting to product-level solutions like OpenAI o1. Despite various efforts to improve LLM reasoning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-05 Yuhao Dong , Zuyan Liu , Hai-Long Sun , Jingkang Yang , Winston Hu , Yongming Rao , Ziwei Liu

This paper proposes an introspective deep metric learning (IDML) framework for uncertainty-aware comparisons of images. Conventional deep metric learning methods focus on learning a discriminative embedding to describe the semantic features…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Chengkun Wang , Wenzhao Zheng , Zheng Zhu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu