ExoViP: Step-by-step Verification and Exploration with Exoskeleton Modules for Compositional Visual Reasoning

Fuente: arXiv
Enregistré dans:
Détails bibliographiques
Auteurs principaux: Wang, Yuxuan, Yuille, Alan, Li, Zhuowan, Zheng, Zilong
Format: Preprint
Publié: 2024
Sujets:
Accès en ligne:
Tags: Ajouter un tag
Pas de tags, Soyez le premier à ajouter un tag!
_version_ 1866929449509847040
author Wang, Yuxuan
Yuille, Alan
Li, Zhuowan
Zheng, Zilong
author_facet Wang, Yuxuan
Yuille, Alan
Li, Zhuowan
Zheng, Zilong
contents Compositional visual reasoning methods, which translate a complex query into a structured composition of feasible visual tasks, have exhibited a strong potential in complicated multi-modal tasks. Empowered by recent advances in large language models (LLMs), this multi-modal challenge has been brought to a new stage by treating LLMs as few-shot/zero-shot planners, i.e., vision-language (VL) programming. Such methods, despite their numerous merits, suffer from challenges due to LLM planning mistakes or inaccuracy of visual execution modules, lagging behind the non-compositional models. In this work, we devise a "plug-and-play" method, ExoViP, to correct errors in both the planning and execution stages through introspective verification. We employ verification modules as "exoskeletons" to enhance current VL programming schemes. Specifically, our proposed verification module utilizes a mixture of three sub-verifiers to validate predictions after each reasoning step, subsequently calibrating the visual module predictions and refining the reasoning trace planned by LLMs. Experimental results on two representative VL programming methods showcase consistent improvements on five compositional reasoning tasks on standard benchmarks. In light of this, we believe that ExoViP can foster better performance and generalization on open-domain multi-modal challenges.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2408_02210
institution arXiv
publishDate 2024
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle ExoViP: Step-by-step Verification and Exploration with Exoskeleton Modules for Compositional Visual Reasoning
Wang, Yuxuan
Yuille, Alan
Li, Zhuowan
Zheng, Zilong
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Compositional visual reasoning methods, which translate a complex query into a structured composition of feasible visual tasks, have exhibited a strong potential in complicated multi-modal tasks. Empowered by recent advances in large language models (LLMs), this multi-modal challenge has been brought to a new stage by treating LLMs as few-shot/zero-shot planners, i.e., vision-language (VL) programming. Such methods, despite their numerous merits, suffer from challenges due to LLM planning mistakes or inaccuracy of visual execution modules, lagging behind the non-compositional models. In this work, we devise a "plug-and-play" method, ExoViP, to correct errors in both the planning and execution stages through introspective verification. We employ verification modules as "exoskeletons" to enhance current VL programming schemes. Specifically, our proposed verification module utilizes a mixture of three sub-verifiers to validate predictions after each reasoning step, subsequently calibrating the visual module predictions and refining the reasoning trace planned by LLMs. Experimental results on two representative VL programming methods showcase consistent improvements on five compositional reasoning tasks on standard benchmarks. In light of this, we believe that ExoViP can foster better performance and generalization on open-domain multi-modal challenges.
title ExoViP: Step-by-step Verification and Exploration with Exoskeleton Modules for Compositional Visual Reasoning
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.02210