Recent years have seen the stunning powers of Visual Language Pre-training (VLP) models. Although VLPs have revolutionalized some fundamental principles of visual language reasoning (VLR), the other remaining problems prevent them from “thinking” like a human being: how to reason the world from breaking into parts (compositionality), how to achieve the generalization towards novel concepts provided a glimpse of demonstrations in context (prompts), and how to debias visual language reasoning by imagining what would have happened in the counterfactual scenarios (causality).

The workshop provides the opportunity to gather researchers from different fields to review the technology trends of the three lines, to better endow VLPs with these reasoning abilities. Our workshop also consists of two multi-modal reasoning challenges under the backgrounds of cross-modal math-word calculation and proving problems. The challenges are practical and highly involved with our issues, therefore, shedding more insights into the new frontiers of visual language reasoning.

Sun Jun 18th at the Vancouver Convention Center (Room East-9, from 9:15 am to 5:00 pm)

This workshop pays more attention to their limitations of existing notions on Compositionality, Prompts, and Causality. In the sense of visual language reasoning, compositionality demonstrates how human represents and organizes visual events for reasoning better; prompt-based methods build a cross-modal bridge to leverage a large language model for reasoning on new visual concepts in a vocabulary; and causality prevents the chain of reasoning from spurious features and other confounding factors. They are very important whereas have seldom been investigated together and worked out in VLPs, covering a non-exhaustive list of topics such as:

Our submission includes the regular-paper track and the long-paper track. CVPR officially does not allow regular workshop papers with more than 4 pages. To this end, our long-paper accepts the submitted manuscripts with more than 4 pages, and supplementary materials are also allowed in the long-paper track. Regular papers are submitted via the CMT paper submission website,
Regular-paper track: https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/NFVLR2023

Long-paper track: https://openreview.net/group?id=thecvf.com/CVPR/2023/Workshop/NFVLR
Long papers are submitted via the openreview system. Note that, only regular papers would be selected to publish in IEEE Xplore and the CVF open-access archive.