针对多模态生成幻觉问题,提出动态问答数据集与自适应规划代理。
Benchmarking Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation with Dynamic VQA Dataset and Self-adaptive Planning Agent
- 设计动态问答数据集,包含三类复杂检索需求问题。
- 现有启发式检索方法在动态问题上表现不佳,准确率低于40%。
- 提出OmniSearch自适应规划代理,模拟人类拆解问题的推理过程。
多模态检索增强生成(mRAG)在缓解多模态大模型固有的'幻觉'问题中发挥重要作用。然而,现有启发式mRAG通常采用预设固定的检索流程,导致两个问题:(1) 检索查询缺乏自适应性;(2) 检索查询过度冗余。但这些缺陷无法通过现有知识寻求型视觉问答(VQA)数据集充分反映,因为大多数所需知识可通过标准两步检索获得。为弥合数据集差距,我们首次构建了Dyn-VQA数据集,包含三类'动态'问题:(1) 答案快速变化的问题;(2) 需要多模态知识的问题;(3) 多跳问题。在Dyn-VQA上的实验表明,现有启发式mRAG难以为动态问题提供充分且精准相关的知识,因其检索流程僵化。为此,我们进一步提出首个用于多模态检索的自适应规划代理OmniSearch。其核心思想是模拟人类解决问题时动态将复杂多模态问题分解为含检索动作的子问题链。大量实验验证了OmniSearch的有效性,也为推进mRAG指明方向。代码与数据集将在https://github.com/Alibaba-NLP/OmniSearch公开。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Multimodal Retrieval Augmented Generation (mRAG) plays an important role in mitigating the "hallucination" issue inherent in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). Although promising, existing heuristic mRAGs typically predefined fixed retrieval processes, which causes two issues: (1) Non-adaptive Retrieval Queries. (2) Overloaded Retrieval Queries. However, these flaws cannot be adequately reflected by current knowledge-seeking visual question answering (VQA) datasets, since the most required knowledge can be readily obtained with a standard two-step retrieval. To bridge the dataset gap, we first construct Dyn-VQA dataset, consisting of three types of "dynamic" questions, which require complex knowledge retrieval strategies variable in query, tool, and time: (1) Questions with rapidly changing answers. (2) Questions requiring multi-modal knowledge. (3) Multi-hop questions. Experiments on Dyn-VQA reveal that existing heuristic mRAGs struggle to provide sufficient and precisely relevant knowledge for dynamic questions due to their rigid retrieval processes. Hence, we further propose the first self-adaptive planning agent for multimodal retrieval, OmniSearch. The underlying idea is to emulate the human behavior in question solution which dynamically decomposes complex multimodal questions into sub-question chains with retrieval action. Extensive experiments prove the effectiveness of our OmniSearch, also provide direction for advancing mRAG. The code and dataset will be open-sourced at https://github.com/Alibaba-NLP/OmniSearch.
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