UNK-VQA: A Dataset and a Probe into the Abstention Ability of Multi-modal Large Models

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Autori principali: Guo, Yangyang, Jiao, Fangkai, Shen, Zhiqi, Nie, Liqiang, Kankanhalli, Mohan
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author Guo, Yangyang
Jiao, Fangkai
Shen, Zhiqi
Nie, Liqiang
Kankanhalli, Mohan
author_facet Guo, Yangyang
Jiao, Fangkai
Shen, Zhiqi
Nie, Liqiang
Kankanhalli, Mohan
contents Teaching Visual Question Answering (VQA) models to refrain from answering unanswerable questions is necessary for building a trustworthy AI system. Existing studies, though have explored various aspects of VQA but somewhat ignored this particular attribute. This paper aims to bridge the research gap by contributing a comprehensive dataset, called UNK-VQA. The dataset is specifically designed to address the challenge of questions that models do not know. To this end, we first augment the existing data via deliberate perturbations on either the image or question. In specific, we carefully ensure that the question-image semantics remain close to the original unperturbed distribution. By this means, the identification of unanswerable questions becomes challenging, setting our dataset apart from others that involve mere image replacement. We then extensively evaluate the zero- and few-shot performance of several emerging multi-modal large models and discover their significant limitations when applied to our dataset. Additionally, we also propose a straightforward method to tackle these unanswerable questions. This dataset, we believe, will serve as a valuable benchmark for enhancing the abstention capability of VQA models, thereby leading to increased trustworthiness of AI systems. We have made the dataset (https://github.com/guoyang9/UNK-VQA) available to facilitate further exploration in this area.
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spellingShingle UNK-VQA: A Dataset and a Probe into the Abstention Ability of Multi-modal Large Models
Guo, Yangyang
Jiao, Fangkai
Shen, Zhiqi
Nie, Liqiang
Kankanhalli, Mohan
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Teaching Visual Question Answering (VQA) models to refrain from answering unanswerable questions is necessary for building a trustworthy AI system. Existing studies, though have explored various aspects of VQA but somewhat ignored this particular attribute. This paper aims to bridge the research gap by contributing a comprehensive dataset, called UNK-VQA. The dataset is specifically designed to address the challenge of questions that models do not know. To this end, we first augment the existing data via deliberate perturbations on either the image or question. In specific, we carefully ensure that the question-image semantics remain close to the original unperturbed distribution. By this means, the identification of unanswerable questions becomes challenging, setting our dataset apart from others that involve mere image replacement. We then extensively evaluate the zero- and few-shot performance of several emerging multi-modal large models and discover their significant limitations when applied to our dataset. Additionally, we also propose a straightforward method to tackle these unanswerable questions. This dataset, we believe, will serve as a valuable benchmark for enhancing the abstention capability of VQA models, thereby leading to increased trustworthiness of AI systems. We have made the dataset (https://github.com/guoyang9/UNK-VQA) available to facilitate further exploration in this area.
title UNK-VQA: A Dataset and a Probe into the Abstention Ability of Multi-modal Large Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.10942