Reasoning about entities and their relationships from multimodal data is a key goal of Artificial General Intelligence. The visual question answering (VQA) problem is an excellent way to test such reasoning capabilities of an AI model and its multimodal representation learning. However, the current VQA models are over-simplified deep neural networks, comprised of a long short-term memory (LSTM) unit for question comprehension and a convolutional neural network (CNN) for learning single image representation. We argue that the single visual representation contains a limited and general information about the image contents and thus limits the model reasoning capabilities. In this work we introduce a modular neural network model that learns a multimodal and multifaceted representation of the image and the question. The proposed model learns to use the multimodal representation to reason about the image entities and achieves a new state-of-the-art performance on both VQA benchmark datasets, VQA v1.0 and v2.0, by a wide margin.

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable performance in 2D vision and language tasks. However, their ability to reason about spatial arrangements remains limited. In this work, we introduce Spatial Region GPT (SpatialRGPT) to enhance VLMs' spatial perception and reasoning capabilities.

To this end, we propose SpatialPIN, a framework that utilizes progressive prompting and interactions between VLMs and 2D/3D foundation models as "free lunch" to enhance spatial reasoning capabilities

These methods, while effective, often involve manually intensive prompt engineering.

Q: For what purpose was the dataset created? Q: Who created the dataset (e.g., which team, research group) and on behalf of which entity (e.g., Q: Who funded the creation of the dataset? Q: What do the instances that comprise the dataset represent (e.g., documents, photos, people, Q: How many instances are there in total (of each type, if appropriate)? As shown in Table 1, the dataset statistics are as follows: Grounding Task: 111,770 samples for training, 21,616 samples for testing. For grounding, we use only one annotation per image.

Large Language Models (MLLMs) to follow task instructions and improve generalization ability.