Hirona Jacqueline Arai — accepted AI-conference papers

2025

Can VLMs Recall Factual Associations From Visual References?

Dhananjay Ashok, Ashutosh Chaubey, Hirona Jacqueline Arai, Jonathan May, Jesse Thomason

EMNLP 2025

Through a controlled study, we identify a systematic deficiency in the multimodal grounding of Vision Language Models (VLMs). While VLMs can recall factual associations when provided a textual reference to an entity, their ability to do so is significantly diminished when the reference is visual ins

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2024

PlaSma: Procedural Knowledge Models for Language-based Planning and Re-Planning

Faeze Brahman, Chandra Bhagavatula, Valentina Pyatkin, Jena D. Hwang, Xiang Lorraine Li, Hirona Jacqueline Arai +4

ICLR 2024poster

Procedural planning, which entails decomposing a high-level goal into a sequence of temporally ordered steps, is an important yet intricate task for machines. It involves integrating common-sense knowledge to reason about complex and often contextualized situations, e.g. ``scheduling a doctor's appo…

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