Language Guided Visual Question Answering: Elevate Your Multimodal Language Model Using Knowledge-Enriched Prompts (2023.findings-emnlp)
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| Challenge: | Visual question answering (VQA) is a task that requires an understanding of both the image and the question to provide a natural language answer. |
| Approach: | They propose a multimodal framework that leverages language guidance to answer questions more accurately. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on the multi-choice question-answering task using CLIP and BLIP models. |
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