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Paola Cascante-Bonilla

12 accepted papers

2025

Can Hallucination Correction Improve Video-Language Alignment?

ACL 2025finding

Large Vision-Language Models often generate hallucinated content that is not grounded in its visual inputs. While prior work focuses on mitigating hallucinations, we instead explore leveraging hallucination correction as a training objective to improve video-language alignment. We introduce HACA, a…

Cited by 0SourcePDFScholar
2025

Natural Language Inference Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models

ICLR 2025poster

Compositional reasoning in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) remains challenging as these models often struggle to relate objects, attributes, and spatial relationships. Recent methods aim to address these limitations by relying on the semantics of the textual description, using Large Language Models (L…

Cited by 3SourcePDFScholar
2024

Grounding Language Models for Visual Entity Recognition

ECCV 2024poster

"We introduce , an Autoregressive model for Visual Entity Recognition. Our model extends an autoregressive Multimodal Large Language Model by employing retrieval augmented constrained generation. It mitigates low performance on out-of-domain entities while excelling in queries that require visual re…

2024

Improved Visual Grounding through Self-Consistent Explanations

CVPR 2024poster

Vision-and-language models trained to match images with text can be combined with visual explanation methods to point to the locations of specific objects in an image. Our work shows that the localization --"grounding'"-- abilities of these models can be further improved by finetuning for self-consi…

Cited by 15SourcePDFScholar
2024

PropTest: Automatic Property Testing for Improved Visual Programming

EMNLP 2024finding

Visual Programming has recently emerged as an alternative to end-to-end black-box visual reasoning models. This type of method leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate the source code for an executable computer program that solves a given problem. This strategy has the advantage of offerin…

Cited by 4SourcePDFScholar
2023

CODA-Prompt: COntinual Decomposed Attention-Based Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning

CVPR 2023poster

Computer vision models suffer from a phenomenon known as catastrophic forgetting when learning novel concepts from continuously shifting training data. Typical solutions for this continual learning problem require extensive rehearsal of previously seen data, which increases memory costs and may viol…

2023

ConStruct-VL: Data-Free Continual Structured VL Concepts Learning

CVPR 2023poster

Recently, large-scale pre-trained Vision-and-Language (VL) foundation models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in many zero-shot downstream tasks, achieving competitive results for recognizing objects defined by as little as short text prompts. However, it has also been shown that VL models…

2023

Dense and Aligned Captions (DAC) Promote Compositional Reasoning in VL Models

NeurIPS 2023spotlight

Vision and Language (VL) models offer an effective method for aligning representation spaces of images and text allowing for numerous applications such as cross-modal retrieval, visual and multi-hop question answering, captioning, and many more. However, the aligned image-text spaces learned by all…

Cited by 50SourcePDFScholar
2023

Going Beyond Nouns With Vision & Language Models Using Synthetic Data

ICCV 2023poster

Large-scale pre-trained Vision & Language (VL) models have shown remarkable performance in many applications, enabling replacing a fixed set of supported classes with zero-shot open vocabulary reasoning over (almost arbitrary) natural language prompts. However, recent works have uncovered a fundamen…

Cited by 51PDFcodeScholar
2022

SimVQA: Exploring Simulated Environments for Visual Question Answering

CVPR 2022poster

Existing work on VQA explores data augmentation to achieve better generalization by perturbing the images in the dataset or modifying the existing questions and answers. While these methods exhibit good performance, the diversity of the questions and answers are constrained by the available image se…

Cited by 46PDFcodeScholar
2021

Curriculum Labeling: Revisiting Pseudo-Labeling for Semi-Supervised Learning

AAAI 2021technical

In this paper we revisit the idea of pseudo-labeling in the context of semi-supervised learning where a learning algorithm has access to a small set of labeled samples and a large set of unlabeled samples. Pseudo-labeling works by applying pseudo-labels to samples in the unlabeled set by using a mod…

2019

Drill-down: Interactive Retrieval of Complex Scenes using Natural Language Queries

NeurIPS 2019poster

This paper explores the task of interactive image retrieval using natural language queries, where a user progressively provides input queries to refine a set of retrieval results. Moreover, our work explores this problem in the context of complex image scenes containing multiple objects. We propose…