Beyond Captioning: Task-Specific Prompting for Improved VLM Performance in Mathematical Reasoning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.05928v1
• Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 11:29:40 GMT
• Title: Beyond Captioning: Task-Specific Prompting for Improved VLM Performance in Mathematical Reasoning
• Authors: Ayush Singh, Mansi Gupta, Shivank Garg, Abhinav Kumar, Vansh Agrawal,
• Abstract summary: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have transformed tasks requiring visual and reasoning abilities, such as image retrieval and Visual Question Answering (VQA) These limitations stem from difficulties effectively integrating multiple modalities and accurately interpreting geometry-related tasks. We present a promising alternative: task-based prompting, enriching the prompt with task-specific guidance.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have transformed tasks requiring visual and reasoning abilities, such as image retrieval and Visual Question Answering (VQA). Despite their success, VLMs face significant challenges with tasks involving geometric reasoning, algebraic problem-solving, and counting. These limitations stem from difficulties effectively integrating multiple modalities and accurately interpreting geometry-related tasks. Various works claim that introducing a captioning pipeline before VQA tasks enhances performance. We incorporated this pipeline for tasks involving geometry, algebra, and counting. We found that captioning results are not generalizable, specifically with larger VLMs primarily trained on downstream QnA tasks showing random performance on math-related challenges. However, we present a promising alternative: task-based prompting, enriching the prompt with task-specific guidance. This approach shows promise and proves more effective than direct captioning methods for math-heavy problems.

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