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arXiv:2302.11713 (cs)
[Submitted on 23 Feb 2023 (v1), last revised 17 Oct 2023 (this version, v5)]
Title:Can Pre-trained Vision and Language Models Answer Visual Information-Seeking Questions?
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View PDFAbstract:Pre-trained vision and language models have demonstrated state-of-the-art capabilities over existing tasks involving images and texts, including visual question answering. However, it remains unclear whether these models possess the capability to answer questions that are not only querying visual content but knowledge-intensive and information-seeking. In this study, we introduce InfoSeek, a visual question answering dataset tailored for information-seeking questions that cannot be answered with only common sense knowledge. Using InfoSeek, we analyze various pre-trained visual question answering models and gain insights into their characteristics. Our findings reveal that state-of-the-art pre-trained multi-modal models (e.g., PaLI-X, BLIP2, etc.) face challenges in answering visual information-seeking questions, but fine-tuning on the InfoSeek dataset elicits models to use fine-grained knowledge that was learned during their pre-training. Furthermore, we show that accurate visual entity recognition can be used to improve performance on InfoSeek by retrieving relevant documents, showing a significant space for improvement.
| Comments: | EMNLP 2023 (main conference); Our dataset and evaluation is available atthis https URL |
| Subjects: | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV); Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2302.11713 [cs.CV] |
| (orarXiv:2302.11713v5 [cs.CV] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2302.11713 arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite |
Submission history
From: Yang Chen [view email][v1] Thu, 23 Feb 2023 00:33:54 UTC (19,156 KB)
[v2] Fri, 24 Feb 2023 19:30:27 UTC (19,156 KB)
[v3] Mon, 9 Oct 2023 02:44:47 UTC (29,143 KB)
[v4] Thu, 12 Oct 2023 15:30:41 UTC (3,607 KB)
[v5] Tue, 17 Oct 2023 14:19:13 UTC (3,607 KB)
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