DePlot: One-shot visual language reasoning by plot-to-table translation (2023.findings-acl)
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Fangyu Liu, Julian Eisenschlos, Francesco Piccinno, Syrine Krichene, Chenxi Pang, Kenton Lee, Mandar Joshi, Wenhu Chen, Nigel Collier, Yasemin Altun
| Challenge: | Existing models for visual language reasoning require tens of thousands of training examples and their reasoning capabilities are limited. |
| Approach: | They propose a one-shot solution to visual language reasoning by combining plot-to-text translation and reasoning over the translated text into a modality conversion module. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves on human-written queries on plots and charts compared with a fine-tuned SOTA model on human queries. |
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