Greedy Gradient Ensemble for Robust Visual Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2107.12651v1
• Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2021 08:02:49 GMT
• Title: Greedy Gradient Ensemble for Robust Visual Question Answering
• Authors: Xinzhe Han, Shuhui Wang, Chi Su, Qingming Huang, Qi Tian
• Abstract summary: We stress the language bias in Visual Question Answering (VQA) that comes from two aspects, i.e., distribution bias and shortcut bias. We propose a new de-bias framework, Greedy Gradient Ensemble (GGE), which combines multiple biased models for unbiased base model learning. GGE forces the biased models to over-fit the biased data distribution in priority, thus makes the base model pay more attention to examples that are hard to solve by biased models.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Language bias is a critical issue in Visual Question Answering (VQA), where models often exploit dataset biases for the final decision without considering the image information. As a result, they suffer from performance drop on out-of-distribution data and inadequate visual explanation. Based on experimental analysis for existing robust VQA methods, we stress the language bias in VQA that comes from two aspects, i.e., distribution bias and shortcut bias. We further propose a new de-bias framework, Greedy Gradient Ensemble (GGE), which combines multiple biased models for unbiased base model learning. With the greedy strategy, GGE forces the biased models to over-fit the biased data distribution in priority, thus makes the base model pay more attention to examples that are hard to solve by biased models. The experiments demonstrate that our method makes better use of visual information and achieves state-of-the-art performance on diagnosing dataset VQA-CP without using extra annotations.

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