VLMT: Vision-Language Multimodal Transformer for Multimodal Multi-hop Question Answering

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2504.08269v1
• Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2025 05:51:44 GMT
• Title: VLMT: Vision-Language Multimodal Transformer for Multimodal Multi-hop Question Answering
• Authors: Qi Zhi Lim, Chin Poo Lee, Kian Ming Lim, Kalaiarasi Sonai Muthu Anbananthen,
• Abstract summary: This paper introduces Vision-Language Multimodal Transformer (VLMT), a unified architecture that integrates a vision encoder with a sequence-to-sequence language model.<n>VLMT employs a direct token-level injection mechanism to fuse visual and textual inputs within a shared embedding space.<n> Comprehensive experiments on two benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
• Abstract: The increasing availability of multimodal data across text, tables, and images presents new challenges for developing models capable of complex cross-modal reasoning. Existing methods for Multimodal Multi-hop Question Answering (MMQA) often suffer from limited reasoning capabilities, reliance on modality conversion, and inadequate alignment between visual and textual representations. To address these limitations, this paper introduces Vision-Language Multimodal Transformer (VLMT), a unified architecture that integrates a transformer-based vision encoder with a sequence-to-sequence language model. VLMT employs a direct token-level injection mechanism to fuse visual and textual inputs within a shared embedding space, eliminating the need for intermediate projection layers. To enhance cross-modal alignment and reasoning, a three-stage pretraining strategy is proposed to progressively align vision-language representations and improve the model's capacity for multimodal understanding. Based on the pretrained backbone, two task-specific modules are instantiated to form a two-stage MMQA framework: a multimodal reranker that predicts document relevance scores and utilizes a relative threshold with top-k strategy for context retrieval, and a multimodal question answering model that generates contextually grounded answers based on the retrieved evidence. Comprehensive experiments on two benchmark datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach. On MultimodalQA validation set, VLMT-Large achieves 76.5% Exact Match and 80.1% F1, outperforming the previous state-of-the-art by +9.1% in Exact Match and +8.8% in F1. On WebQA, it attains a QA score of 47.6, surpassing prior models such as PERQA by +3.2. These results highlight VLMT's strong capabilities in multimodal reasoning and its potential to advance real-world information retrieval and question answering systems.

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