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Think Visually: Question Answering through Virtual Imagery

25 May 2018ACL 2018 7arXiv:1805.11025archive 2025-07-28

Ankit Goyal, Jian Wang, Jia Deng

In this paper, we study the problem of geometric reasoning in the context of question-answering. We introduce Dynamic Spatial Memory Network (DSMN), a new deep network architecture designed for answering questions that admit latent visual representations. DSMN learns to generate and reason over such representations. Further, we propose two synthetic benchmarks, FloorPlanQA and ShapeIntersection, to evaluate the geometric reasoning capability of QA systems. Experimental results validate the effectiveness of our proposed DSMN for visual thinking tasks.

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