ROME: Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models on Reasoning beyond Visual Common Sense

Kankan Zhou, Eason Lai, Wei Bin Au Yeong, Kyriakos Mouratidis, Jing Jiang


Abstract
Humans possess a strong capability for reasoning beyond common sense. For example, given an unconventional image of a goldfish laying on the table next to an empty fishbowl, a human would effortlessly determine that the fish is not inside the fishbowl. The case, however, may be different for a vision-language model, whose reasoning could gravitate towards the common scenario that the fish is inside the bowl, despite the visual input. In this paper, we introduce a novel probing dataset named ROME (reasoning beyond commonsense knowledge) to evaluate whether the state-of-the-art pre-trained vision-language models have the reasoning capability to correctly interpret counter-intuitive content. ROME contains images that defy commonsense knowledge with regards to color, shape, material, size and positional relation. Experiments on the state-of-the-art pre-trained vision-language models reveal that most of these models are still largely incapable of interpreting counter-intuitive scenarios. We hope that ROME will spur further investigations on reasoning beyond commonsense knowledge in vision-language research.
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2023.findings-emnlp.683
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023
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December
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2023
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Singapore
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Houda Bouamor, Juan Pino, Kalika Bali
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Findings
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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10185–10197
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https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-emnlp.683
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2023.findings-emnlp.683
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Kankan Zhou, Eason Lai, Wei Bin Au Yeong, Kyriakos Mouratidis, and Jing Jiang. 2023. ROME: Evaluating Pre-trained Vision-Language Models on Reasoning beyond Visual Common Sense. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2023, pages 10185–10197, Singapore. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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