| Title | Transformer Module Networks for Systematic Generalization in Visual Question Answering |
| Publication Type | CBMM Memos |
| Year of Publication | 2022 |
| Authors | Yamada, M, D'Amario, V, Takemoto, K, Boix, X, Sasaki, T |
| Number | 121 |
| Date Published | 02/2022 |
| Abstract | Transformer-based models achieve great performance on Visual Question Answering (VQA). How- ever, when we evaluate them on systematic generalization, i.e., handling novel combinations of known concepts, their performance degrades. Neural Module Networks (NMNs) are a promising approach for systematic generalization that consists on composing modules, i.e., neural networks that tackle a sub-task. Inspired by Transformers and NMNs, we propose Transformer Module Network (TMN), a novel Transformer-based model for VQA that dynamically composes modules into a question-specific Transformer network. TMNs achieve state-of-the-art systematic generalization performance in three VQA datasets, namely, CLEVR-CoGenT, CLOSURE and GQA-SGL, in some cases improving more than 30% over standard Transformers. |
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