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New Wiki-R1 framework boosts multimodal reasoning for knowledge-based VQA

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Researchers have introduced Wiki-R1, a novel framework designed to enhance multimodal reasoning capabilities in large language models for Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA). This approach utilizes a curriculum reinforcement learning strategy with controllable data generation to align training distributions with the model's evolving abilities. Experiments on the Encyclopedic VQA and InfoSeek benchmarks show Wiki-R1 achieving new state-of-the-art results, significantly improving accuracy on both datasets. AI

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New Wiki-R1 framework boosts multimodal reasoning for knowledge-based VQA

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  1. arXiv cs.CV TIER_1 English(EN) · Shan Ning, Longtian Qiu, Xuming He ·

    Wiki-R1: Incentivizing Multimodal Reasoning for Knowledge-based VQA via Data and Sampling Curriculum

    arXiv:2603.05256v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) requires models to answer questions about an image by integrating external knowledge, posing significant challenges due to noisy retrieval and the structured, encyclopedic natur…

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