DWIM: Towards Tool-aware Visual Reasoning via Discrepancy-aware Workflow Generation & Instruct-Masking Tuning

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19263v3
• Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 14:10:06 GMT
• Title: DWIM: Towards Tool-aware Visual Reasoning via Discrepancy-aware Workflow Generation & Instruct-Masking Tuning
• Authors: Fucai Ke, Vijay Kumar B G, Xingjian Leng, Zhixi Cai, Zaid Khan, Weiqing Wang, Pari Delir Haghighi, Hamid Rezatofighi, Manmohan Chandraker,
• Abstract summary: compositional visual reasoning approaches have shown promise as more effective strategies than end-to-end VR methods.<n>We propose DWIM: Discrepancy-aware training generation, which assesses tool usage and extracts more viable for training.<n>Instruct-Masking fine-tuning, which guides the model to only clone effective actions, enabling the generation of more practical solutions.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Visual reasoning (VR), which is crucial in many fields for enabling human-like visual understanding, remains highly challenging. Recently, compositional visual reasoning approaches, which leverage the reasoning abilities of large language models (LLMs) with integrated tools to solve problems, have shown promise as more effective strategies than end-to-end VR methods. However, these approaches face limitations, as frozen LLMs lack tool awareness in VR, leading to performance bottlenecks. While leveraging LLMs for reasoning is widely used in other domains, they are not directly applicable to VR due to limited training data, imperfect tools that introduce errors and reduce data collection efficiency in VR, and challenging in fine-tuning on noisy workflows. To address these challenges, we propose DWIM: i) Discrepancy-aware training Workflow generation, which assesses tool usage and extracts more viable workflows for training; and ii) Instruct-Masking fine-tuning, which guides the model to only clone effective actions, enabling the generation of more practical solutions. Our experiments demonstrate that DWIM achieves state-of-the-art performance across various VR tasks, exhibiting strong generalization on multiple widely-used datasets.

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