The paper introduces VT-Transformer, a model that predicts answerability scores for Visual Question Answering by treating the task as a regression problem rather than a binary classification. It leverages visual and textual features within a Transformer architecture and demonstrates improved performance and robustness on the VizWiz 2020 dataset compared to existing baselines.
arXiv:2606. 28329v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The growing adoption of AI in healthcare, particularly in preventive care, highlights the critical need for accessibility and precision in Medical Question Answering (MedQA).
This article presents a Visual Question Answering (VQA) model tailored for nondestructive evaluation (NDE) image analysis. The system combines a ResNet‑50 image encoder with a GPT‑2 language generator, allowing inspectors to ask targeted questions such as "Is there a crack?" or "Where is the defect located?" and receive precise answers. By facilitating direct question‑and‑answer interactions, the VQA model aims to improve inspection efficiency, reduce errors, and enhance usability in field scenarios.
Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) presents a complex multimodal challenge, requiring models to exploit visual, textual, and layout information from documents. Although Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable performance in text-vision tasks, their robustness and transferability to different document domains remains underexplored.
The paper introduces three new vision‑centric evaluation benchmarks—temporal frame retrieval, video future prediction, and causal memory distortion—to assess visual question answering in large video models. Unlike traditional benchmarks that rely on text-based multiple choice questions, these tasks require models to reason directly from visual inputs. The authors find that current state‑of‑the‑art models struggle with visual queries, highlighting a gap in visual understanding that future research should address.
arXiv:2607. 07179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) presents a complex multimodal challenge, requiring models to exploit visual, textual, and layout information from documents.
arXiv:2605. 29588v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Decoding visual content from fMRI signals recorded while a person views images, and specifically answering questions about the seen images, is a long-standing challenge.
arXiv:2609.13815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Text-centric Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires reading and reasoning over text embedded in images, a task made substantially harder when images...
The paper introduces the Generative Embedding Benchmark (GEB), which evaluates how much content from an embedding can be recovered by a decoder that only has access to the frozen embedding and a question, without the original image or intermediate features. GEB uses a curated visual‑question‑answering dataset with 1,800 development and 900 test items covering natural images, scene text, and visual documents. Experiments on seven public embedding models show that visual‑only scores range from 28.25 to 33.21, while joint image‑question encoding boosts scores up to 65.56, revealing that generative readout uncovers information bottlenecks not captured by traditional separability‑based benchmarks.
arXiv:2608.28707v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in Visual Question Answering (VQA), yet they continue to struggle with quest...
arXiv:2608. 12928v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce a Polish-language medical visual question answering (VQA) benchmark, built from Polish Board Certification Examination questions for licensed physicians and dentists pursuing specialist certification.
ViSAR is a training‑free, adaptive‑k retrieval method for Visual Document Question Answering that operates directly in the embedding space to build a query‑conditioned page‑level similarity matrix. By dynamically selecting the number of pages to retrieve based on query relevance, ViSAR reduces Retrieval‑Augmented Generation latency by up to 58.7% while maintaining or improving answer accuracy across multiple encoders and Large Vision‑Language Models. The structure of the similarity matrix also correlates with answer accuracy, indicating potential for retrieval quality‑aware document understanding.
arXiv:2608. 08307v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical Visual Question Answering (VQA) requires aligning subtle visual evidence, including lesion texture, boundary sharpness, and diffuse density changes, with clinical language.