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Existing Visual Question Answering (VQA) methods tend to exploit dataset biases and spurious statistical correlations, instead of producing right answers for the right reasons. To address this issue, recent bias mitigation methods for VQA…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Robik Shrestha , Kushal Kafle , Christopher Kanan

3D Visual Question Answering (3D VQA) is crucial for enabling models to perceive the physical world and perform spatial reasoning. In 3D VQA, the free-form nature of answers often leads to improper annotations that can confuse or mislead…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Shengli Zhou , Yang Liu , Feng Zheng

Visual Question Answering (VQA) systems are tasked with answering natural language questions corresponding to a presented image. Traditional VQA datasets typically contain questions related to the spatial information of objects, object…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-06-05 Goonmeet Bajaj , Bortik Bandyopadhyay , Daniel Schmidt , Pranav Maneriker , Christopher Myers , Srinivasan Parthasarathy

Visual Question Answering (VQA) models employ attention mechanisms to discover image locations that are most relevant for answering a specific question. For this purpose, several multimodal fusion strategies have been proposed, ranging from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-26 Moshiur R Farazi , Salman H Khan , Nick Barnes

Video quality assessment (VQA) aims to objectively quantify perceptual quality degradation in alignment with human visual perception. Despite recent advances, existing VQA models still suffer from two critical limitations: \textit{poor…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Linhan Cao , Wei Sun , Weixia Zhang , Xiangyang Zhu , Jun Jia , Kaiwei Zhang , Dandan Zhu , Guangtao Zhai , Xiongkuo Min

In recent years, visual question answering (VQA) has become topical. The premise of VQA's significance as a benchmark in AI, is that both the image and textual question need to be well understood and mutually grounded in order to infer the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-20 Feng Liu , Tao Xiang , Timothy M. Hospedales , Wankou Yang , Changyin Sun

Visual question answering (VQA) is challenging not only because the model has to handle multi-modal information, but also because it is just so hard to collect sufficient training examples -- there are too many questions one can ask about…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-10 Jihyung Kil , Cheng Zhang , Dong Xuan , Wei-Lun Chao

Transformer-based architectures have recently demonstrated remarkable performance in the Visual Question Answering (VQA) task. However, such models are likely to disregard crucial visual cues and often rely on multimodal shortcuts and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-08 Maria Parelli , Dimitrios Mallis , Markos Diomataris , Vassilis Pitsikalis

Faithful generation in large language models (LLMs) is challenged by knowledge conflicts between parametric memory and external context. Existing contrastive decoding methods tuned specifically to handle conflict often lack adaptability and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-28 Anant Khandelwal , Manish Gupta , Puneet Agrawal

Recent research in Visual Question Answering (VQA) has revealed state-of-the-art models to be inconsistent in their understanding of the world -- they answer seemingly difficult questions requiring reasoning correctly but get simpler…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-02 Sameer Dharur , Purva Tendulkar , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh , Ramprasaath R. Selvaraju

When deciding how to act under uncertainty, agents may choose to act to reduce uncertainty or they may act despite that uncertainty. In communicative settings, an important way of reducing uncertainty is by asking clarification questions…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Polina Tsvilodub , Karl Mulligan , Todd Snider , Robert D. Hawkins , Michael Franke

Knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA) demonstrates significant potential for handling knowledge-intensive tasks. However, conflicts arise between static parametric knowledge in vision language models (VLMs) and dynamically…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Yuyang Hong , Jiaqi Gu , Yujin Lou , Lubin Fan , Qi Yang , Ying Wang , Kun Ding , Yue Wu , Shiming Xiang , Jieping Ye

AI systems' ability to explain their reasoning is critical to their utility and trustworthiness. Deep neural networks have enabled significant progress on many challenging problems such as visual question answering (VQA). However, most of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Jialin Wu , Raymond J. Mooney

Recently, to comprehensively improve Vision Language Models (VLMs) for Visual Question Answering (VQA), several methods have been proposed to further reinforce the inference capabilities of VLMs to independently tackle VQA tasks rather than…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-17 Zeqing Wang , Wentao Wan , Qiqing Lao , Runmeng Chen , Minjie Lang , Xiao Wang , Keze Wang , Liang Lin

A number of studies have found that today's Visual Question Answering (VQA) models are heavily driven by superficial correlations in the training data and lack sufficient image grounding. To encourage development of models geared towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-05 Aishwarya Agrawal , Dhruv Batra , Devi Parikh , Aniruddha Kembhavi

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

The Visual Question Answering (VQA) task combines challenges for processing data with both Visual and Linguistic processing, to answer basic `common sense' questions about given images. Given an image and a question in natural language, the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-24 Yash Srivastava , Vaishnav Murali , Shiv Ram Dubey , Snehasis Mukherjee

Agentic search -- the task of training agents that iteratively reason, issue queries, and synthesize retrieved information to answer complex questions -- has achieved remarkable progress through reinforcement learning (RL). However,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Hansi Zeng , Liam Collins , Bhuvesh Kumar , Neil Shah , Hamed Zamani

Users often assume that large language models (LLMs) share their cognitive alignment of context and intent, leading them to omit critical information in question-answering (QA) and produce ambiguous queries. Responses based on misaligned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Zongxi Li , Yang Li , Haoran Xie , S. Joe Qin

Large language models (LLMs) often respond even when prompts omit critical details or include misleading information, leading to hallucinations or reinforced misconceptions. We study how to evaluate and improve LLMs' ability to decide when…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-22 Jiale Zhao , Ke Fang , Lu Cheng