Visual Graph Question Answering with ASP and LLMs for Language Parsing

Fuente: arXiv
Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Bauer, Jakob Johannes, Eiter, Thomas, Ruiz, Nelson Higuera, Oetsch, Johannes
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
Subjects:
Online Access:
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
_version_ 1866929713616781312
author Bauer, Jakob Johannes
Eiter, Thomas
Ruiz, Nelson Higuera
Oetsch, Johannes
author_facet Bauer, Jakob Johannes
Eiter, Thomas
Ruiz, Nelson Higuera
Oetsch, Johannes
contents Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging problem that requires to process multimodal input. Answer-Set Programming (ASP) has shown great potential in this regard to add interpretability and explainability to modular VQA architectures. In this work, we address the problem of how to integrate ASP with modules for vision and natural language processing to solve a new and demanding VQA variant that is concerned with images of graphs (not graphs in symbolic form). Images containing graph-based structures are an ubiquitous and popular form of visualisation. Here, we deal with the particular problem of graphs inspired by transit networks, and we introduce a novel dataset that amends an existing one by adding images of graphs that resemble metro lines. Our modular neuro-symbolic approach combines optical graph recognition for graph parsing, a pretrained optical character recognition neural network for parsing labels, Large Language Models (LLMs) for language processing, and ASP for reasoning. This method serves as a first baseline and achieves an overall average accuracy of 73% on the dataset. Our evaluation provides further evidence of the potential of modular neuro-symbolic systems, in particular with pretrained models that do not involve any further training and logic programming for reasoning, to solve complex VQA tasks.
format Preprint
id arxiv_https___arxiv_org_abs_2502_09211
institution arXiv
publishDate 2025
record_format arxiv
spellingShingle Visual Graph Question Answering with ASP and LLMs for Language Parsing
Bauer, Jakob Johannes
Eiter, Thomas
Ruiz, Nelson Higuera
Oetsch, Johannes
Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Logic in Computer Science
D.1.6; I.2.10
Visual Question Answering (VQA) is a challenging problem that requires to process multimodal input. Answer-Set Programming (ASP) has shown great potential in this regard to add interpretability and explainability to modular VQA architectures. In this work, we address the problem of how to integrate ASP with modules for vision and natural language processing to solve a new and demanding VQA variant that is concerned with images of graphs (not graphs in symbolic form). Images containing graph-based structures are an ubiquitous and popular form of visualisation. Here, we deal with the particular problem of graphs inspired by transit networks, and we introduce a novel dataset that amends an existing one by adding images of graphs that resemble metro lines. Our modular neuro-symbolic approach combines optical graph recognition for graph parsing, a pretrained optical character recognition neural network for parsing labels, Large Language Models (LLMs) for language processing, and ASP for reasoning. This method serves as a first baseline and achieves an overall average accuracy of 73% on the dataset. Our evaluation provides further evidence of the potential of modular neuro-symbolic systems, in particular with pretrained models that do not involve any further training and logic programming for reasoning, to solve complex VQA tasks.
title Visual Graph Question Answering with ASP and LLMs for Language Parsing
topic Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
Logic in Computer Science
D.1.6; I.2.10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.09211