Knowledge-Based Counterfactual Queries for Visual Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2303.02601v1
• Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2023 08:00:30 GMT
• Title: Knowledge-Based Counterfactual Queries for Visual Question Answering
• Authors: Theodoti Stoikou, Maria Lymperaiou, Giorgos Stamou
• Abstract summary: We propose a systematic method for explaining the behavior and investigating the robustness of VQA models through counterfactual perturbations. For this reason, we exploit structured knowledge bases to perform deterministic, optimal and controllable word-level replacements targeting the linguistic modality. We then evaluate the model's response against such counterfactual inputs.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: Visual Question Answering (VQA) has been a popular task that combines vision and language, with numerous relevant implementations in literature. Even though there are some attempts that approach explainability and robustness issues in VQA models, very few of them employ counterfactuals as a means of probing such challenges in a model-agnostic way. In this work, we propose a systematic method for explaining the behavior and investigating the robustness of VQA models through counterfactual perturbations. For this reason, we exploit structured knowledge bases to perform deterministic, optimal and controllable word-level replacements targeting the linguistic modality, and we then evaluate the model's response against such counterfactual inputs. Finally, we qualitatively extract local and global explanations based on counterfactual responses, which are ultimately proven insightful towards interpreting VQA model behaviors. By performing a variety of perturbation types, targeting different parts of speech of the input question, we gain insights to the reasoning of the model, through the comparison of its responses in different adversarial circumstances. Overall, we reveal possible biases in the decision-making process of the model, as well as expected and unexpected patterns, which impact its performance quantitatively and qualitatively, as indicated by our analysis.

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