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Chain-based reasoning methods like chain of thought (CoT) play a rising role in solving reasoning tasks for large language models (LLMs). However, the causal hallucinations between a step of reasoning and corresponding state transitions are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Kangsheng Wang , Xiao Zhang , Juntao Lyu , Tianyu Hu , Huimin Ma

With the rapid advancement of text-conditioned Video Generation Models (VGMs), the quality of generated videos has significantly improved, bringing these models closer to functioning as ``*world simulators*'' and making real-world-level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Haotong Yang , Qingyuan Zheng , Yunjian Gao , Yongkun Yang , Yangbo He , Zhouchen Lin , Muhan Zhang

While Multi-modal Language Models (MLMs) demonstrate impressive multimodal ability, they still struggle on providing factual and precise responses for tasks like visual question answering (VQA). In this paper, we address this challenge from…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Shitian Zhao , Zhuowan Li , Yadong Lu , Alan Yuille , Yan Wang

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has been highly successful in solving complex tasks in natural language processing, and recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have extended this paradigm to video reasoning. However, these models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Yiwu Zhong , Zi-Yuan Hu , Yin Li , Liwei Wang

Understanding the predictions made by deep learning models remains a central challenge, especially in high-stakes applications. A promising approach is to equip models with the ability to answer counterfactual questions -- hypothetical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Inwoo Hwang , Yushu Pan , Elias Bareinboim

The next frontier for video generation lies in developing models capable of zero-shot reasoning, where understanding real-world scientific laws is crucial for accurate physical outcome modeling under diverse conditions. However, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-03 Lanxiang Hu , Abhilash Shankarampeta , Yixin Huang , Zilin Dai , Haoyang Yu , Yujie Zhao , Haoqiang Kang , Daniel Zhao , Tajana Rosing , Hao Zhang

Reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs) have substantially advanced through methods such as chain-of-thought and explicit step-by-step explanations. However, these improvements have not yet fully transitioned to multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Nima Iji , Kia Dashtipour

Visual representation learning is ubiquitous in various real-world applications, including visual comprehension, video understanding, multi-modal analysis, human-computer interaction, and urban computing. Due to the emergence of huge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-23 Yang Liu , Yushen Wei , Hong Yan , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

We develop a method for generating causal post-hoc explanations of black-box classifiers based on a learned low-dimensional representation of the data. The explanation is causal in the sense that changing learned latent factors produces a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-23 Matthew O'Shaughnessy , Gregory Canal , Marissa Connor , Mark Davenport , Christopher Rozell

Long-term Video Question Answering (VideoQA) is a challenging vision-and-language bridging task focusing on semantic understanding of untrimmed long-term videos and diverse free-form questions, simultaneously emphasizing comprehensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Ting Yu , Kunhao Fu , Jian Zhang , Qingming Huang , Jun Yu

Multimodal reasoning is a critical component in the pursuit of artificial intelligence systems that exhibit human-like intelligence, especially when tackling complex tasks. While the chain-of-thought (CoT) technique has gained considerable…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-26 Jingxuan Wei , Cheng Tan , Zhangyang Gao , Linzhuang Sun , Siyuan Li , Bihui Yu , Ruifeng Guo , Stan Z. Li

We present CausalVLR (Causal Visual-Linguistic Reasoning), an open-source toolbox containing a rich set of state-of-the-art causal relation discovery and causal inference methods for various visual-linguistic reasoning tasks, such as VQA,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-14 Yang Liu , Weixing Chen , Guanbin Li , Liang Lin

Visually-situated languages such as charts and plots are omnipresent in real-world documents. These graphical depictions are human-readable and are often analyzed in visually-rich documents to address a variety of questions that necessitate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Anran Wu , Luwei Xiao , Xingjiao Wu , Shuwen Yang , Junjie Xu , Zisong Zhuang , Nian Xie , Cheng Jin , Liang He

Visual reasoning is critical for a wide range of computer vision tasks that go beyond surface-level object detection and classification. Despite notable advances in relational, symbolic, temporal, causal, and commonsense reasoning, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Ayushman Sarkar , Mohd Yamani Idna Idris , Zhenyu Yu

Multi-modal reasoning requires the seamless integration of visual and linguistic cues, yet existing Chain-of-Thought methods suffer from two critical limitations in cross-modal scenarios: (1) over-reliance on single coarse-grained image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-07 Wenting Lu , Didi Zhu , Tao Shen , Donglin Zhu , Ayong Ye , Chao Wu

The aim of video summarization is to shorten videos automatically while retaining the key information necessary to convey the overall story. Video summarization methods mainly rely on visual factors, such as visual consecutiveness and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-22 Jia-Hong Huang , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Pin-Yu Chen , Min-Hung Chen , Marcel Worring

We present ExpliCIT-QA, a system that extends our previous MRT approach for tabular question answering into a multimodal pipeline capable of handling complex table images and providing explainable answers. ExpliCIT-QA follows a modular…

Causal reasoning (CR) is a crucial aspect of intelligence, essential for problem-solving, decision-making, and understanding the world. While language models (LMs) can generate rationales for their outputs, their ability to reliably perform…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Longxuan Yu , Delin Chen , Siheng Xiong , Qingyang Wu , Qingzhen Liu , Dawei Li , Zhikai Chen , Xiaoze Liu , Liangming Pan

Complex question answering (CQA) over raw text is a challenging task. A prominent approach to this task is based on the programmer-interpreter framework, where the programmer maps the question into a sequence of reasoning actions which is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Xiao-Yu Guo , Yuan-Fang Li , Gholamreza Haffari

Interpreting the inner function of neural networks is crucial for the trustworthy development and deployment of these black-box models. Prior interpretability methods focus on correlation-based measures to attribute model decisions to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-06-21 Ola Ahmad , Nicolas Bereux , Loïc Baret , Vahid Hashemi , Freddy Lecue