让视觉推理更可靠,防止错误信息累积
Reliable Thinking with Images
- 统一评估图文推理的可信度,识别错误环节
- 通过过滤与投票机制,使答案误差降低30%以上
- 适合需要高精度多模态推理的应用场景
作为链式思维(CoT)的多模态扩展,视觉思维(TWI)通过在文本推理中融入视觉线索,显著提升了多模态大模型(MLLMs)的推理能力。然而,现有方法依赖于假设:图文交错的推理过程是完全正确的,这一假设在真实复杂场景中极易被打破。本文揭示并研究了这一实际且未被充分关注的问题——噪声思维(NT),即视觉线索提取和推理过程中的不完善。正如俗语所说,“一错生百错”,错误的交错推理会导致错误累积,严重损害MLLMs性能。为此,我们提出一种新方法——可靠视觉思维(RTWI)。RTWI以文本为中心,统一评估视觉线索与文本推理的可靠性,并通过鲁棒的过滤与投票模块,有效防止噪声思维污染最终答案。在七个基准测试上的实验验证了RTWI在对抗噪声思维方面的有效性。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
As a multimodal extension of Chain-of-Thought (CoT), Thinking with Images (TWI) has recently emerged as a promising avenue to enhance the reasoning capability of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs), which generates interleaved CoT by incorporating visual cues into the textual reasoning process. However, the success of existing TWI methods heavily relies on the assumption that interleaved image-text CoTs are faultless, which is easily violated in real-world scenarios due to the complexity of multimodal understanding. In this paper, we reveal and study a highly-practical yet under-explored problem in TWI, termed Noisy Thinking (NT). Specifically, NT refers to the imperfect visual cues mining and answer reasoning process. As the saying goes, ``One mistake leads to another'', erroneous interleaved CoT would cause error accumulation, thus significantly degrading the performance of MLLMs. To solve the NT problem, we propose a novel method dubbed Reliable Thinking with Images (RTWI). In brief, RTWI estimates the reliability of visual cues and textual CoT in a unified text-centric manner and accordingly employs robust filtering and voting modules to prevent NT from contaminating the final answer. Extensive experiments on seven benchmarks verify the effectiveness of RTWI against NT.
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