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CoSIm: Commonsense Reasoning for Counterfactual Scene Imagination (arxiv.org)
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In plain words: A new test set of 3,500 items shows a picture with a question and answer, then describes an imagined change—like rain clouds replacing the sun—and asks for the updated answer. Humans score high, while a vision-language model falls far behind.

Abstract

As humans, we can modify our assumptions about a scene by imagining alternative objects or concepts in our minds. For example, we can easily anticipate the implications of the sun being overcast by rain clouds (e.g., the street will get wet) and accordingly prepare for that. In this paper, we introduce a new task/dataset called Commonsense Reasoning for Counterfactual Scene Imagination (CoSIm) which is designed to evaluate the ability of AI systems to reason about scene change imagination. In this task/dataset, models are given an image and an initial question-response pair about the image. Next, a counterfactual imagined scene change (in textual form) is applied, and the model has to predict the new response to the initial question based on this scene change. We collect 3.5K high-quality and challenging data instances, with each instance consisting of an image, a commonsense question with a response, a description of a counterfactual change, a new response to the question, and three distractor responses. Our dataset contains various complex scene change types (such as object addition/removal/state change, event description, environment change, etc.) that require models to imagine many different scenarios and reason about the changed scenes. We present a baseline model based on a vision-language Transformer (i.e., LXMERT) and ablation studies. Through human evaluation, we demonstrate a large human-model performance gap, suggesting room for promising future work on this challenging counterfactual, scene imagination task. Our code and dataset are publicly available at: https://github.com/hyounghk/CoSIm

Hyounghun Kim, Abhay Zala, Mohit Bansal
arXiv:2207.03961 · cs.CL, cs.AI, cs.CV · submitted Jul 8, 2022
abstract · pdf · html · NAACL 2022 (13 pages)

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