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arXiv cs.CL AI Research 11h ago

Revisiting Greedy Decoding for Visual Question Answering: A Calibration Perspective

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The paper argues that stochastic sampling strategies used in LLMs are often suboptimal for Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks. The authors provide a theoretical framework showing that greedy decoding is superior for VQA due to the nature of epistemic uncertainty, and they introduce a new method for reasoning models.

Why it matters Optimizing decoding strategies may prove more critical for multimodal reasoning accuracy than simply scaling model parameters.
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#vqa #decoding strategies #multimodal llms #calibration #greedy decoding

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