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Current tasks and methods in Document Understanding aims to process documents as single elements. However, documents are usually organized in collections (historical records, purchase invoices), that provide context useful for their…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Rubèn Tito , Dimosthenis Karatzas , Ernest Valveny

Question Answering over Temporal Knowledge Graphs (TKGQA) has attracted growing interest for handling time-sensitive queries. However, existing methods still struggle with: 1) weak incorporation of temporal constraints in question…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Wuzhenghong Wen , Bowen Zhou , Jinwen Huang , Xianjie Wu , Yuwei Sun , Su Pan , Liang Li , Jianting Liu

Medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) is a machine learning task that aims to create a system that can answer natural language questions based on given medical images. Although there has been rapid progress on the general VQA task,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Louisa Canepa , Sonit Singh , Arcot Sowmya

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has emerged as an effective paradigm for expanding the knowledge capacity of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) by incorporating external knowledge sources into the generation process, and has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-28 Xu Yuan , Liangbo Ning , Qingqing Ye , Wenqi Fan , Qing Li

Visual Question and Answering (VQA) problems are attracting increasing interest from multiple research disciplines. Solving VQA problems requires techniques from both computer vision for understanding the visual contents of a presented…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-04-07 Ilija Ilievski , Shuicheng Yan , Jiashi Feng

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging task that requires systems to provide accurate answers to questions based on image content. Current VQA models struggle with complex questions due to limitations in capturing and integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Peiyuan Chen , Zecheng Zhang , Yiping Dong , Li Zhou , Han Wang

Retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) enables large language models (LLMs) to dynamically access external information, which is powerful for answering questions over previously unseen documents. Nonetheless, they struggle with high-level…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Chi-Hsiang Hsiao , Yi-Cheng Wang , Tzung-Sheng Lin , Yi-Ren Yeh , Chu-Song Chen

Recently, Visual Question Answering (VQA) has emerged as one of the most significant tasks in multimodal learning as it requires understanding both visual and textual modalities. Existing methods mainly rely on extracting image and question…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-07-23 Pan Lu , Lei Ji , Wei Zhang , Nan Duan , Ming Zhou , Jianyong Wang

This paper presents a state-of-the-art model for visual question answering (VQA), which won the first place in the 2017 VQA Challenge. VQA is a task of significant importance for research in artificial intelligence, given its multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-08-10 Damien Teney , Peter Anderson , Xiaodong He , Anton van den Hengel

Medical Visual Question Answering~(VQA) is a combination of medical artificial intelligence and popular VQA challenges. Given a medical image and a clinically relevant question in natural language, the medical VQA system is expected to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Zhihong Lin , Donghao Zhang , Qingyi Tao , Danli Shi , Gholamreza Haffari , Qi Wu , Mingguang He , Zongyuan Ge

Answering open-ended questions is an essential capability for any intelligent agent. One of the most interesting recent open-ended question answering challenges is Visual Question Answering (VQA) which attempts to evaluate a system's visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-10-25 Omid Bakhshandeh , Trung Bui , Zhe Lin , Walter Chang

Diagram question answering (DQA) requires models to interpret structured visual representations such as charts, maps, infographics, circuit schematics, and scientific diagrams. Recent vision-language models (VLMs) often achieve high answer…

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Visual reasoning tasks such as visual question answering (VQA) require an interplay of visual perception with reasoning about the question semantics grounded in perception. However, recent advances in this area are still primarily driven by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-27 Saeed Amizadeh , Hamid Palangi , Oleksandr Polozov , Yichen Huang , Kazuhito Koishida

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

In Embodied Question Answering (EQA), agents must explore and develop a semantic understanding of an unseen environment to answer a situated question with confidence. This problem remains challenging in robotics, due to the difficulties in…

Visual question answering (VQA) requires joint comprehension of images and natural language questions, where many questions can't be directly or clearly answered from visual content but require reasoning from structured human knowledge with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-14 Zhou Su , Chen Zhu , Yinpeng Dong , Dongqi Cai , Yurong Chen , Jianguo Li

Visual Question Answering (VQA) focuses on providing answers to natural language questions by utilizing information from images. Although cutting-edge multimodal large language models (MLLMs) such as GPT-4o achieve strong performance on VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Zhengxuan Zhang , Yin Wu , Yuyu Luo , Nan Tang

Understanding the mechanisms behind Large Language Models (LLMs) is crucial for designing improved models and strategies. While recent studies have yielded valuable insights into the mechanisms of textual LLMs, the mechanisms of Multi-modal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Zeping Yu , Sophia Ananiadou

Visual Question Answering (VQA) is an interdisciplinary field that bridges the gap between computer vision (CV) and natural language processing(NLP), enabling Artificial Intelligence(AI) systems to answer questions about images. Since its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-14 Anupam Pandey , Deepjyoti Bodo , Arpan Phukan , Asif Ekbal

Multimodal reasoning models often produce fluent answers supported by seemingly coherent rationales. Existing benchmarks evaluate only final-answer correctness. They do not support atomic visual entailment verification of intermediate…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Saleem Ahmed , Srirangaraj Setlur , Venu Govindaraju