Beyond Question-Based Biases: Assessing Multimodal Shortcut Learning in Visual Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2104.03149v1
• Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 14:28:22 GMT
• Title: Beyond Question-Based Biases: Assessing Multimodal Shortcut Learning in Visual Question Answering
• Authors: Corentin Dancette, Remi Cadene, Damien Teney, Matthieu Cord
• Abstract summary: Shortcut learning happens when a model exploits spurious statistical regularities to produce correct answers but does not deploy the desired behavior. We introduce an evaluation methodology for visual question answering (VQA) to better diagnose cases of shortcut learning.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: We introduce an evaluation methodology for visual question answering (VQA) to better diagnose cases of shortcut learning. These cases happen when a model exploits spurious statistical regularities to produce correct answers but does not actually deploy the desired behavior. There is a need to identify possible shortcuts in a dataset and assess their use before deploying a model in the real world. The research community in VQA has focused exclusively on question-based shortcuts, where a model might, for example, answer "What is the color of the sky" with "blue" by relying mostly on the question-conditional training prior and give little weight to visual evidence. We go a step further and consider multimodal shortcuts that involve both questions and images. We first identify potential shortcuts in the popular VQA v2 training set by mining trivial predictive rules such as co-occurrences of words and visual elements. We then create VQA-CE, a new evaluation set made of CounterExamples i.e. questions where the mined rules lead to incorrect answers. We use this new evaluation in a large-scale study of existing models. We demonstrate that even state-of-the-art models perform poorly and that existing techniques to reduce biases are largely ineffective in this context. Our findings suggest that past work on question-based biases in VQA has only addressed one facet of a complex issue. The code for our method is available at https://github.com/cdancette/detect-shortcuts

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