Challenge: Visual Question Answering (VQA) is acknowledged as a challenging multi-modal task for Machine Learning (ML).
Approach: They propose an interpretable approach for graph-based Visual Question Answering . their model is designed to intrinsically produce a subgraph during the question-answering process as its explanation .
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing explainable methods on a graph-based VQA dataset.

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