Combining Knowledge Graph and LLMs for Enhanced Zero-shot Visual Question Answering

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Main Authors: Tao, Qian, Fan, Xiaoyang, Xu, Yong, Zhu, Xingquan, Tang, Yufei
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Published: 2025
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author Tao, Qian
Fan, Xiaoyang
Xu, Yong
Zhu, Xingquan
Tang, Yufei
author_facet Tao, Qian
Fan, Xiaoyang
Xu, Yong
Zhu, Xingquan
Tang, Yufei
contents Zero-shot visual question answering (ZS-VQA), an emerged critical research area, intends to answer visual questions without providing training samples. Existing research in ZS-VQA has proposed to leverage knowledge graphs or large language models (LLMs), respectively, as external information sources to help VQA model comprehend images and questions. However, LLMs often struggle in accurately interpreting specific question meanings. Meanwhile, although knowledge graph has rich entity relationships, it is challenging to effectively connect entities to individual image content for visual question answers. In this paper, we propose a novel design to combine knowledge graph and LLMs for zero-shot visual question answer. Our approach uses LLMs' powerful understanding capabilities to accurately interpret image content through a strategic question search mechanism. Meanwhile, the knowledge graph is used to expand and connect users' queries to the image content for better visual question answering. An optimization algorithm is further used to determine the optimal weights for the loss functions derived from different information sources, towards a globally optimal set of candidate answers. Experimental results on two benchmark datasets demonstrate that our model achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. Both source code and benchmark data will be released for public access.
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spellingShingle Combining Knowledge Graph and LLMs for Enhanced Zero-shot Visual Question Answering
Tao, Qian
Fan, Xiaoyang
Xu, Yong
Zhu, Xingquan
Tang, Yufei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Zero-shot visual question answering (ZS-VQA), an emerged critical research area, intends to answer visual questions without providing training samples. Existing research in ZS-VQA has proposed to leverage knowledge graphs or large language models (LLMs), respectively, as external information sources to help VQA model comprehend images and questions. However, LLMs often struggle in accurately interpreting specific question meanings. Meanwhile, although knowledge graph has rich entity relationships, it is challenging to effectively connect entities to individual image content for visual question answers. In this paper, we propose a novel design to combine knowledge graph and LLMs for zero-shot visual question answer. Our approach uses LLMs' powerful understanding capabilities to accurately interpret image content through a strategic question search mechanism. Meanwhile, the knowledge graph is used to expand and connect users' queries to the image content for better visual question answering. An optimization algorithm is further used to determine the optimal weights for the loss functions derived from different information sources, towards a globally optimal set of candidate answers. Experimental results on two benchmark datasets demonstrate that our model achieves state-of-the-art (SOTA) performance. Both source code and benchmark data will be released for public access.
title Combining Knowledge Graph and LLMs for Enhanced Zero-shot Visual Question Answering
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.12697