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  • Fei Li

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  • Visual Genome: Connecting Language and Vision Using Crowdsourced Dense Image Annotations

    Ranjay Krishna, Yuke Zhu, Oliver Groth, Justin Johnson, Kenji Hata, Joshua Kravitz, Stephanie Y Chen, Yannis Kalantidis, +4 more

    International Journal of Computer Vision · 2017

    The Visual Genome dataset is presented, which contains over 108K images where each image has an average of 35 objects and contains dense annotations of objects, attributes, and relationships within each image to learn these models.

    6,796
  • On the Opportunities and Risks of Foundation Models

    Rishi Bommasani, Drew A. Hudson, Ehsan Adeli, Russ Biagio Altman, Simran Arora, Sydney von Arx, Michael S. Bernstein, Jeannette Bohg, +22 more

    arXiv · 2021

    2,188
  • Dense-Captioning Events in Videos

    Ranjay Krishna, Kenji Hata, Frederic Ren, Li Fei-Fei, Juan Carlos Niebles

    IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2017

    This work proposes a new model that is able to identify all events in a single pass of the video while simultaneously describing the detected events with natural language, and introduces a new captioning module that uses contextual information from past and future events to jointly describe all events.

    1,676
  • Visual Relationship Detection with Language Priors

    Cewu Lu, Ranjay Krishna, Michael S. Bernstein, Li Fei-Fei

    Lecture notes in computer science · 2016

    This work proposes a model that can scale to predict thousands of types of relationships from a few examples and improves on prior work by leveraging language priors from semantic word embeddings to finetune the likelihood of a predicted relationship.

    1,268
  • Image retrieval using scene graphs

    Justin M. Johnson, Ranjay Krishna, Michael M. Stark, Li-Jia Li, David A. Shamma, Michael S. Bernstein, Li Fei-Fei

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2015

    1,264
  • TIFA: Accurate and Interpretable Text-to-Image Faithfulness Evaluation with Question Answering

    Yushi Hu, Benlin Liu, Jungo Kasai, Yizhong Wang, Mari Ostendorf, Ranjay Krishna, Noah A. Smith

    IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision (ICCV) · 2023

    The introduction of TIFA (Text-to-Image Faithfulness evaluation with question Answering), an automatic evaluation metric that measures the faithfulness of a generated image to its text input via visual question answering (VQA), and a comprehensive evaluation of existing text-to-image models using TIFA v1.0.

    523
  • Action Genome: Actions As Compositions of Spatio-Temporal Scene Graphs

    Jingwei Ji, Ranjay Krishna, Li Fei-Fei, Juan Carlos Niebles

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2020

    This work introduces Action Genome, a representation that decomposes actions into spatio-temporal scene graphs and demonstrates the utility of a hierarchical event decomposition by enabling few-shot action recognition, achieving 42.7% mAP using as few as 10 examples.

    455
  • Explanations Can Reduce Overreliance on AI Systems During Decision-Making

    Helena Vasconcelos, Matthew Jörke, Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Tobias Gerstenberg, Michael S. Bernstein, Ranjay Krishna

    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2023

    This paper argues that people strategically choose whether or not to engage with an AI explanation, demonstrating empirically that there are scenarios where AI explanations reduce overreliance, and formalizes this strategic choice in a cost-benefit framework, where the costs and benefits of engaging with the task are weighed against the costs of relying on the AI.

    433
  • A Hierarchical Approach for Generating Descriptive Image Paragraphs

    Jonathan Krause, Justin Johnson, Ranjay Krishna, Li Fei-Fei

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2017

    A model that decomposes both images and paragraphs into their constituent parts is developed, detecting semantic regions in images and using a hierarchical recurrent neural network to reason about language.

    416
  • Generating Semantically Precise Scene Graphs from Textual Descriptions for Improved Image Retrieval

    Sebastian Schuster, Ranjay Krishna, Anne Lynn S. Chang, Li Fei-Fei, Christopher D. Manning

    Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Vision and Language · 2015

    It is shown that scene graphs can be effectively created automatically from a natural language scene description and that using the output of the parsers is almost as effective as using human-constructed scene graphs.

    375
  • Holodeck: Language Guided Generation of 3D Embodied AI Environments

    Yue Yang, Fan-Yun Sun, Luca Weihs, Eli VanderBilt, Alvaro Herrasti, Winson Han, Jiajun Wu, Nick Haber, +6 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    Large-scale human evaluation shows that annotators prefer Holodeck over manually designed procedural baselines in residential scenes and that Holodeck can produce high-quality outputs for diverse scene types, which is a significant step forward in developing general-purpose embodied agents.

    374
  • Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models

    Matt Deitke, Christopher Clark, Sang-Ho Lee, Rohun Tripathi, Yue Yang, Jae Sung Park, Mohammadreza Salehi, Niklas Muennighoff, +22 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    Molmo is presented, a new family of VLMs that are state-of-the-art in their class of openness, with a best-in-class 72B model that not only outperforms others in the class of open weight and data models, but also outperforms larger proprietary models.

    315
  • Distilling Step-by-Step! Outperforming Larger Language Models with Less Training Data and Smaller Model Sizes

    Cheng-Yu Hsieh, Chunliang Li, Chih‐Kuan Yeh, Hootan Nakhost, Yasuhisa Fujii, Alex Ratner, Ranjay Krishna, Chen-Yu Lee, +1 more

    Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023 · 2023

    306
  • NVILA: Efficient Frontier Visual Language Models

    Zhijian Liu, Ligeng Zhu, Baifeng Shi, Zhuoyang Zhang, Yuming Lou, Shang Wen Yang, Haocheng Xi, Shiyi Cao, +17 more

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2025

    NVILA, a family of open VLMs designed to optimize both efficiency and accuracy, is introduced by improving its model architecture by first scaling up the spatial and temporal resolutions, and then compressing visual tokens, which enables NVILA to efficiently process high-resolution images and long videos.

    260
  • @ CREPE: Can Vision-Language Foundation Models Reason Compositionally?

    Zixian Ma, Jerry Hong, Mustafa Omer Gul, Mona Gandhi, Irena Gao, Ranjay Krishna

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2023

    A new compositionality evaluation benchmark, @ CREPE, is introduced, which measures two important aspects of compositionality identified by cognitive science literature: system-aticity and productivity.

    238
  • Spurious Rewards: Rethinking Training Signals in RLVR

    Rulin Shao, Shuyue Stella Li, Rui Xin, Scott Geng, Yiping Wang, Sewoong Oh, Simon S. Du, Nathan Lambert, +6 more

    arXiv · 2025

    235
  • Conceptual Metaphors Impact Perceptions of Human-AI Collaboration

    Pranav Khadpe, Ranjay Krishna, Li Fei-Fei, Jeffrey T. Hancock, Michael S. Bernstein

    Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction · 2020

    It is suggested that projecting competence may help attract new users, but those users may discard the agent unless it can quickly correct with a lower competence metaphor, and that users are drawn to systems that project higher competence and warmth.

    192
  • AGQA: A Benchmark for Compositional Spatio-Temporal Reasoning

    Madeleine Grunde-McLaughlin, Ranjay Krishna, Maneesh Agrawala

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2021

    Using AGQA, modern visual reasoning systems are evaluated, demonstrating that the best models barely perform better than non-visual baselines exploiting linguistic biases and that none of the existing models generalize to novel compositions unseen during training.

    177
  • Quilt-LLaVA: Visual Instruction Tuning by Extracting Localized Narratives from Open-Source Histopathology Videos

    Mehmet Saygın Seyfioğlu, Wisdom O. Ikezogwo, Fatemeh Ghezloo, Ranjay Krishna, Linda G. Shapiro

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    This work introduces QUILT-INSTRUCT, a large-scale dataset of107, 131 histopathology-specific instruction question/answer pairs, grounded within diagnostically relevant image patches that make up the WSI, and trains QUILT-LLAVA, which can reason beyond the given single image patch, enabling diagnostic reasoning across patches.

    139
  • Information Maximizing Visual Question Generation

    Ranjay Krishna, Michael S. Bernstein, Li Fei-Fei

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2019

    It is argued that a good question is one that has a tightly focused purpose --- one that is aimed at expecting a specific type of response, and a model is built that maximizes mutual information between the image, the expected answer and the generated question.

    104
  • Mind Your Outliers! Investigating the Negative Impact of Outliers on Active Learning for Visual Question Answering

    Siddharth Karamcheti, Ranjay Krishna, Li Fei-Fei, Christopher D. Manning

    Proceedings of the 59th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and the 11th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing (Volume 1: Long Papers) · 2021

    It is shown that active learning sample efficiency increases significantly as the number of collective outliers in the active learning pool decreases, and prescriptive recommendations for mitigating the effects of these outliers are made.

    102
  • Referring Relationships

    Ranjay Krishna, Ines Chami, Michael S. Bernstein, Li Fei-Fei

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2018

    An iterative model is introduced that localizes the two entities in the referring relationship by modelling predicates that connect the entities as shifts in attention from one entity to another, and it is demonstrated that this model can not only outperform existing approaches on three datasets but also that it produces visually meaningful predicate shifts, as an instance of interpretable neural networks.

    97
  • Visual Program Distillation: Distilling Tools and Programmatic Reasoning into Vision-Language Models

    Yushi Hu, Otilia Stretcu, Chun-Ta Lu, Krishnamurthy Viswanathan, Kenji Hata, Enming Luo, Ranjay Krishna, Ariel Fuxman

    IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings - IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition/Proceedings · 2024

    VPD is proposed, an instruction tuning framework that produces a vision-language model (VLM) capable of solving complex visual tasks with a single forward pass and improves the VLM's ability to count, understand spatial relations, and reason compositionally.

    96
  • Scene Graph Prediction with Limited Labels

    Vincent Chen, Paroma Varma, Ranjay Krishna, Michael S. Bernstein, Christopher Ré, Li Fei-Fei

    2019 IEEE/CVF International Conference on Computer Vision Workshop (ICCVW) · 2019

    This paper introduces a semi-supervised method that assigns probabilistic relationship labels to a large number of unlabeled images using few labeled examples and defines a complexity metric for relationships that serves as an indicator for conditions under which the method succeeds over transfer learning, the de-facto approach for training with limited labels.

    94
  • HYPE: A Benchmark for Human eYe Perceptual Evaluation of Generative Models

    Sharon Zhou, Mitchell Gordon, Ranjay Krishna, Austin Narcomey, Li Fei-Fei, Michael S. Bernstein

    arXiv · 2019

    93

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