Papers by Shailaja Keyur Sampat

5 papers
Learning Action-Effect Dynamics for Hypothetical Vision-Language Reasoning Task (2022.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: ‘Actions’ play a vital role in how humans interact with the world and therefore require the capability to perform ‘Reasoning about Actions & Change’ (RAC).
Approach: They propose an encoder-decoder architecture to learn the representation of actions as vectors and combine it with existing modality parsers and a scene graph question answering model to evaluate the proposed system.
Outcome: The proposed system performs better than baselines on the CLEVR_HYP dataset and compares with existing parsers and a scene graph question answering model.
Visuo-Linguistic Question Answering (VLQA) Challenge (2020.findings-emnlp)

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Challenge: Understanding images and text together is an important aspect of cognition and building advanced AI systems.
Approach: They propose to derive joint inference about a given image-text modality and compile a question-answering corpus using an image and a reading passage.
Outcome: The proposed method has better baseline performance but is still far behind human performance.
Super-NaturalInstructions: Generalization via Declarative Instructions on 1600+ NLP Tasks (2022.emnlp-main)

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Challenge: a benchmark of 1,616 diverse NLP tasks and their expert-written instructions is used to test generalization of models to unseen tasks . a recent study shows that instruction-following models outperform instruction-based models by over 9% .
Approach: They build a benchmark of 1,616 diverse NLP tasks and their expert-written instructions.
Outcome: The proposed model outperforms existing instruction-following models by over 9% on the benchmark despite being smaller.
‘Just because you are right, doesn’t mean I am wrong’: Overcoming a bottleneck in development and evaluation of Open-Ended VQA tasks (2021.eacl-main)

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Challenge: Existing visual question answering datasets assume only one ground truth answer for each question.
Approach: They propose alternative answer sets (AAS) of ground-truth answers to address this limitation . they modify top VQA solvers to support multiple plausible answers for a question .
Outcome: The proposed approach improves on the GQA dataset and shows that it is more efficient than previous approaches.
CLEVR_HYP: A Challenge Dataset and Baselines for Visual Question Answering with Hypothetical Actions over Images (2021.naacl-main)

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Challenge: Existing research on visual question answering is limited to information explicitly present in an image or a video.
Approach: They propose a vision-language question answering task based on a CLEVR dataset . they modify existing methods and propose baseline solvers for this task .
Outcome: The proposed model motivates the development of better vision-language models . it provides insights about the capability of diverse architectures to perform joint reasoning over image-text modality.

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