Summary of How Far Are We From Intelligent Visual Deductive Reasoning?, by Yizhe Zhang et al.
How Far Are We from Intelligent Visual Deductive Reasoning?
by Yizhe Zhang, He Bai, Ruixiang Zhang, Jiatao Gu, Shuangfei Zhai, Josh Susskind, Navdeep Jaitly
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Mar 2024
Categories
- Main: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
- Secondary: Computation and Language (cs.CL); Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary A new study explores the capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) on complex vision-based deductive reasoning tasks, revealing previously unknown limitations. The researchers leveraged Raven’s Progressive Matrices (RPMs) to assess VLMs’ abilities to perform multi-hop relational and deductive reasoning using visual clues alone. Evaluating popular VLMs like LLMs, they found that despite impressive text-based reasoning capabilities, VLMs struggle with visual deductive reasoning tasks, particularly when dealing with multiple abstract patterns in RPM examples. The study highlights the need for more sophisticated strategies to overcome these limitations and improve VLM performance. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary A group of scientists studied how well computers can understand pictures by doing tricky math problems. They used special tests to see if a computer program could figure out complex problems just by looking at a picture. The results showed that even though computers are good at understanding words, they’re not as good at figuring out things from pictures. This is because computers have trouble seeing and understanding patterns in the pictures. |
