MoReVQA: Exploring Modular Reasoning Models for Video Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2404.06511v1
• Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 17:59:31 GMT
• Title: MoReVQA: Exploring Modular Reasoning Models for Video Question Answering
• Authors: Juhong Min, Shyamal Buch, Arsha Nagrani, Minsu Cho, Cordelia Schmid,
• Abstract summary: This paper addresses the task of video question answering (videoQA) via a decomposed multi-stage, modular reasoning framework. Unlike traditional single-stage planning methods, we propose a multi-stage system consisting of an event, a grounding stage, and a final reasoning stage in conjunction with an external memory.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: This paper addresses the task of video question answering (videoQA) via a decomposed multi-stage, modular reasoning framework. Previous modular methods have shown promise with a single planning stage ungrounded in visual content. However, through a simple and effective baseline, we find that such systems can lead to brittle behavior in practice for challenging videoQA settings. Thus, unlike traditional single-stage planning methods, we propose a multi-stage system consisting of an event parser, a grounding stage, and a final reasoning stage in conjunction with an external memory. All stages are training-free, and performed using few-shot prompting of large models, creating interpretable intermediate outputs at each stage. By decomposing the underlying planning and task complexity, our method, MoReVQA, improves over prior work on standard videoQA benchmarks (NExT-QA, iVQA, EgoSchema, ActivityNet-QA) with state-of-the-art results, and extensions to related tasks (grounded videoQA, paragraph captioning).

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