arXiv AI
Jun 11

Brain-IT-VQA: From Brain Signals to Answers

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.

By Roman Beliy, Matias Cosarinsky, Oliver Heinimann, Navve Wasserman, Michal Irani
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

Counterfactual Reasoning for Robust Visual Question Answering

The paper introduces a new training framework for Visual Question Answering that leverages counterfactual contrastive learning to mitigate language bias and improve out‑of‑distribution generalization. It comprises a three‑stage curriculum for stable optimization, an enhanced Batch‑Contrastive loss for discriminative feature learning, and two regularizers—Answer‑Contrastive and Gradient‑Discrepancy—to refine predictions and enforce causal visual grounding. The resulting model attains 61.64% accuracy on the bias‑sensitive VQA‑CP v2 benchmark while maintaining 62.80% on the standard VQA v2 dataset, achieving a small generalization gap of 1.16%.

By Truong-Binh Duong, Thanh-Ngan Tran, Ngoc-Thao Nguyen, Bac Le
arXiv AI
Oct 26

Cycle-of-Thought: Self-Evaluative Iterative Reasoning for Table Visual Question Answering in Document Images

The paper introduces Self-RefineVQA, a training‑free, inference‑time framework that lets a single Vision‑Language Model iteratively generate, critique, and refine its own answers for table visual question answering. By forming a closed self‑feedback loop guided by prompts, the method corrects common reasoning errors such as spatial misalignment and logical hallucinations without requiring additional labeled data or model updates. Experiments on tabular VQA benchmarks show consistent accuracy gains across monolingual and cross‑lingual settings, especially for lightweight models, while keeping inference cost linear and eliminating the need for expensive supervised fine‑tuning.

By Somraj Gautam, Gaurav Harit