# Exploring Diverse Methods in Visual Question Answering

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.13565 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2404.13565/

## Key facts

- Cited by 45 papers in the map (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 28 of its 57 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 21 Apr 2024.

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## Abstract (arXiv)

This study explores innovative methods for improving Visual Question Answering (VQA) using Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), autoencoders, and attention mechanisms. Leveraging a balanced VQA dataset, we investigate three distinct strategies. Firstly, GAN-based approaches aim to generate answer embeddings conditioned on image and question inputs, showing potential but struggling with more complex tasks. Secondly, autoencoder-based techniques focus on learning optimal embeddings for questions and images, achieving comparable results with GAN due to better ability on complex questions. Lastly, attention mechanisms, incorporating Multimodal Compact Bilinear pooling (MCB), address language priors and attention modeling, albeit with a complexity-performance trade-off. This study underscores the challenges and opportunities in VQA and suggests avenues for future research, including alternative GAN formulations and attentional mechanisms.