Let Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: A Human-like Image Implication Understanding and Reasoning Framework

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.17019v1
• Date: Thu, 22 May 2025 17:59:53 GMT
• Title: Let Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: A Human-like Image Implication Understanding and Reasoning Framework
• Authors: Chenhao Zhang, Yazhe Niu,
• Abstract summary: Let Androids Dream (LAD) is a novel framework for image implication understanding and reasoning.<n>Our framework with the lightweight GPT-4o-mini model achieves SOTA performance compared to 15+ MLLMs on English image implication benchmark.<n>Our work provides new insights into how AI can more effectively interpret image implications.
• Score: 1.5998912722142729
• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Metaphorical comprehension in images remains a critical challenge for AI systems, as existing models struggle to grasp the nuanced cultural, emotional, and contextual implications embedded in visual content. While multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel in basic Visual Question Answer (VQA) tasks, they struggle with a fundamental limitation on image implication tasks: contextual gaps that obscure the relationships between different visual elements and their abstract meanings. Inspired by the human cognitive process, we propose Let Androids Dream (LAD), a novel framework for image implication understanding and reasoning. LAD addresses contextual missing through the three-stage framework: (1) Perception: converting visual information into rich and multi-level textual representations, (2) Search: iteratively searching and integrating cross-domain knowledge to resolve ambiguity, and (3) Reasoning: generating context-alignment image implication via explicit reasoning. Our framework with the lightweight GPT-4o-mini model achieves SOTA performance compared to 15+ MLLMs on English image implication benchmark and a huge improvement on Chinese benchmark, performing comparable with the GPT-4o model on Multiple-Choice Question (MCQ) and outperforms 36.7% on Open-Style Question (OSQ). Additionally, our work provides new insights into how AI can more effectively interpret image implications, advancing the field of vision-language reasoning and human-AI interaction. Our project is publicly available at https://github.com/MING-ZCH/Let-Androids-Dream-of-Electric-Sheep.

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