提出mR²AG框架,让多模态模型自适应检索并定位证据,提升知识问答准确率。
mR$^2$AG: Multimodal Retrieval-Reflection-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Based VQA
- 通过反射机制判断是否需要检索,避免无效调用
- 在检索后精准定位支持答案的证据,提升回答可靠性
- 可无缝集成到现有模型,适合需高精度知识问答场景
先进多模态大模型在近期知识型视觉问答任务(如INFOSEEK和Encyclopedic-VQA)中表现受限,因知识范围固定且有限,常产生模糊或错误回答。为此,引入多模态检索增强生成(mRAG)以扩展知识覆盖。然而现有方法存在三方面缺陷:1)即使无需外部知识也执行检索;2)无法识别支持查询的证据;3)增加额外过滤模块导致模型复杂度上升。为此,本文提出通用框架mR²AG,通过两个简单易行的反射操作实现自适应检索与有效信息定位。其中,Retrieval-Reflection用于区分不同查询,避免冗余检索;Relevance-Reflection引导模型定位检索内容中的相关证据并据此生成答案。mR²AG可高效微调任意预训练多模态大模型,基于自建的mR²AG指令微调数据集(mR²AG-IT)。实验表明,mR²AG显著优于当前最优多模态模型(如GPT-4o)及mRAG基线,在INFOSEEK和Encyclopedic-VQA上表现更佳,同时保持基础模型在多种视觉依赖任务上的卓越性能。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Advanced Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with recent Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks, such as INFOSEEK and Encyclopedic-VQA, due to their limited and frozen knowledge scope, often leading to ambiguous and inaccurate responses. Thus, multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (mRAG) is naturally introduced to provide MLLMs with comprehensive and up-to-date knowledge, effectively expanding the knowledge scope. However, current mRAG methods have inherent drawbacks, including: 1) Performing retrieval even when external knowledge is not needed. 2) Lacking of identification of evidence that supports the query. 3) Increasing model complexity due to additional information filtering modules or rules. To address these shortcomings, we propose a novel generalized framework called \textbf{m}ultimodal \textbf{R}etrieval-\textbf{R}eflection-\textbf{A}ugmented \textbf{G}eneration (mR$^2$AG), which achieves adaptive retrieval and useful information localization to enable answers through two easy-to-implement reflection operations, preventing high model complexity. In mR$^2$AG, Retrieval-Reflection is designed to distinguish different user queries and avoids redundant retrieval calls, and Relevance-Reflection is introduced to guide the MLLM in locating beneficial evidence of the retrieved content and generating answers accordingly. In addition, mR$^2$AG can be integrated into any well-trained MLLM with efficient fine-tuning on the proposed mR$^2$AG Instruction-Tuning dataset (mR$^2$AG-IT). mR$^2$AG significantly outperforms state-of-the-art MLLMs (e.g., GPT-4o) and mRAG-based MLLMs on INFOSEEK and Encyclopedic-VQA, while maintaining the exceptional capabilities of base MLLMs across a wide range of Visual-dependent tasks.
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