COVR: A Test-Bed for Visually Grounded Compositional Generalization with Real Images

Ben Bogin, Shivanshu Gupta, Matt Gardner, Jonathan Berant


Abstract
While interest in models that generalize at test time to new compositions has risen in recent years, benchmarks in the visually-grounded domain have thus far been restricted to synthetic images. In this work, we propose COVR, a new test-bed for visually-grounded compositional generalization with real images. To create COVR, we use real images annotated with scene graphs, and propose an almost fully automatic procedure for generating question-answer pairs along with a set of context images. COVR focuses on questions that require complex reasoning, including higher-order operations such as quantification and aggregation. Due to the automatic generation process, COVR facilitates the creation of compositional splits, where models at test time need to generalize to new concepts and compositions in a zero- or few-shot setting. We construct compositional splits using COVR and demonstrate a myriad of cases where state-of-the-art pre-trained language-and-vision models struggle to compositionally generalize.
Anthology ID:
2021.emnlp-main.774
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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November
Year:
2021
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Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic
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Marie-Francine Moens, Xuanjing Huang, Lucia Specia, Scott Wen-tau Yih
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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9824–9846
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2021.emnlp-main.774
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2021.emnlp-main.774
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Cite (ACL):
Ben Bogin, Shivanshu Gupta, Matt Gardner, and Jonathan Berant. 2021. COVR: A Test-Bed for Visually Grounded Compositional Generalization with Real Images. In Proceedings of the 2021 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 9824–9846, Online and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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COVR: A Test-Bed for Visually Grounded Compositional Generalization with Real Images (Bogin et al., EMNLP 2021)
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Code
 benbogin/covr-dataset
Data
Visual GenomeVisual Question Answering