HyperMR: Hyperbolic Hypergraph Multi-hop Reasoning for Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (2024.lrec-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing studies on knowledge-based visual question answering (KBVQA) describe the semantic distance using the actual Euclidean distance between two nodes, which leads to distortion in modeling knowledge graphs with hierarchical and scale-free structure. |
| Approach: | They propose to use the actual Euclidean distance between two nodes to solve a problem of hierarchical and free-scale knowledge graphs. |
| Outcome: | Extensive experiments on the KVQA, PQ and PQL datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of HyperMR for strong-hierarchy knowledge graphs. |
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