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MV-CoRe: Multimodal Visual-Conceptual Reasoning for Complex Visual Question Answering

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition 2025-08-12 v1

Abstract

Complex Visual Question Answering (Complex VQA) tasks, which demand sophisticated multi-modal reasoning and external knowledge integration, present significant challenges for existing large vision-language models (LVLMs) often limited by their reliance on high-level global features. To address this, we propose MV-CoRe (Multimodal Visual-Conceptual Reasoning), a novel model designed to enhance Complex VQA performance through the deep fusion of diverse visual and linguistic information. MV-CoRe meticulously integrates global embeddings from pre-trained Vision Large Models (VLMs) and Language Large Models (LLMs) with fine-grained semantic-aware visual features, including object detection characteristics and scene graph representations. An innovative Multimodal Fusion Transformer then processes and deeply integrates these diverse feature sets, enabling rich cross-modal attention and facilitating complex reasoning. We evaluate MV-CoRe on challenging Complex VQA benchmarks, including GQA, A-OKVQA, and OKVQA, after training on VQAv2. Our experimental results demonstrate that MV-CoRe consistently outperforms established LVLM baselines, achieving an overall accuracy of 77.5% on GQA. Ablation studies confirm the critical contribution of both object and scene graph features, and human evaluations further validate MV-CoRe's superior factual correctness and reasoning depth, underscoring its robust capabilities for deep visual and conceptual understanding.

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@article{arxiv.2508.07023,
  title  = {MV-CoRe: Multimodal Visual-Conceptual Reasoning for Complex Visual Question Answering},
  author = {Jingwei Peng and Jiehao Chen and Mateo Alejandro Rojas and Meilin Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.07023},
  year   = {2025}
}
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