用图结构推理跨模态多跳问题,轻量模型提升检索准确率4.6%。
Multimodal Multihop Source Retrieval for Web Question Answering
- 构建基于语义结构的图网络,学习跨图文的多源推理路径。
- 在WebQA上实现4.6%的检索F1提升,优于复杂多模态变压器。
- 适合需要高效跨模态推理的开放域问答系统开发者。
本文研究多模态多跳问答中的学习与推理挑战。提出一种基于句子语义结构的图推理网络,用于学习多源推理路径,并在图像与文本模态间寻找支持性事实。以WebQA为基准,构建强基线模型,通过成对分类任务定位相关来源。分析表明,利用预训练模型的特征表示,合理设计图结构可显著提升多模态多跳问答性能。指出图结构与邻接矩阵是任务相关的先验知识,可有效增强检索效果。实验与可视化分析显示,图网络中的消息传播或整体结构可替代大量使用词级交叉注意力的多模态变换器。所提方法在保持极轻量化的同时,在检索F1上相较基准提升4.6%,并成功扩展至大规模检索场景。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
This work deals with the challenge of learning and reasoning over multi-modal multi-hop question answering (QA). We propose a graph reasoning network based on the semantic structure of the sentences to learn multi-source reasoning paths and find the supporting facts across both image and text modalities for answering the question. In this paper, we investigate the importance of graph structure for multi-modal multi-hop question answering. Our analysis is centered on WebQA. We construct a strong baseline model, that finds relevant sources using a pairwise classification task. We establish that, with the proper use of feature representations from pre-trained models, graph structure helps in improving multi-modal multi-hop question answering. We point out that both graph structure and adjacency matrix are task-related prior knowledge, and graph structure can be leveraged to improve the retrieval performance for the task. Experiments and visualized analysis demonstrate that message propagation over graph networks or the entire graph structure can replace massive multimodal transformers with token-wise cross-attention. We demonstrated the applicability of our method and show a performance gain of \textbf{4.6$\%$} retrieval F1score over the transformer baselines, despite being a very light model. We further demonstrated the applicability of our model to a large scale retrieval setting.
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