Equation 9 · Building a Multimodal AI Application That Actually Uses Its Inputs
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Symbol Delta_image
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Slice the ablation results by task subtype , because an aggregate delta hides subtypes where the shortcut is total. A visual question answering system can show a healthy aggregate while still answering every counting question from the question text alone.
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- [3] Don't Just Assume; Look and Answer: Overcoming Priors for Visual Question Answering ↗
- [14] Shortcut Learning in Deep Neural Networks ↗
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