CLEVR-Implicit: A Diagnostic Dataset for Implicit Reasoning in Referring Expression Comprehension (2023.emnlp-main)
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| Challenge: | Recent studies show that pre-trained vision-language models perform well in cross-modal tasks, including referring expression comprehension. |
| Approach: | They propose a method that enables VL models to reason with implicit text . they propose to use a dataset to align the text with objects in the images . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves performance 37.94% on referring expression comprehension task. |
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