@inproceedings{
zheng2024a,
title={A Picture Is Worth a Graph: A Blueprint Debate Paradigm for Multimodal Reasoning},
author={Changmeng Zheng and DaYong Liang and Wengyu Zhang and Xiaoyong Wei and Tat-Seng Chua and Qing Li},
booktitle={ACM Multimedia 2024},
year={2024},
url={https://openreview.net/forum?id=fslSfODqFU}
}
This paper presents a pilot study aimed at introducing multi-agent debate into multimodal reasoning. The study addresses two key challenges: the trivialization of opinions resulting from excessive summarization and the diversion of focus caused by distractor concepts introduced from images. These challenges stem from the inductive (bottom-up) nature of existing debating schemes. To address the issue, we propose a deductive (top-down) debating approach called Blueprint Debate on Graphs (BDoG). In BDoG, debates are confined to a blueprint graph to prevent opinion trivialization through world-level summarization. Moreover, by storing evidence in branches within the graph, BDoG mitigates distractions caused by frequent but irrelevant concepts. Extensive experiments validate that BDoG is able to achieve state-of-the-art results in ScienceQA and MMBench with significant improvements over previous methods. The source code can be accessed at https://github.com/open_upon_acceptance.
A Picture Is Worth a Graph: A Blueprint Debate Paradigm for Multimodal Reasoning
Changmeng Zheng DaYong Liang Wengyu Zhang Xiaoyong Wei Tat-Seng Chua Qing Li