# Unanswerable Questions about Images and Texts

Source: [Unanswerable Questions about Images and Texts](<https://www.sota2.com/research/paper/68fa69511e209131cea2185a>)

Collection index: [llms.txt](<https://www.sota2.com/research/llms.txt>)

Data updated: 2025-10-25T22:58:51.104Z

Authors: Ernest Davis

Published: 2021-01-25T17:56:15.000Z

## Abstract

Questions about a text or an image that cannot be answered raise distinctive issues for an AI. This note discusses the problem of unanswerable questions in VQA (visual question answering), in QA (visual question answering), and in AI generally.

## Recorded benchmark results

A research result applies to its stated dataset, split, metric and evaluation configuration. Compare like-for-like settings, preserve the metric's unit and direction, and distinguish paper-reported results from independent reproduction. The best result recorded here is not a claim of exhaustive, current global coverage.

## Original sources and implementation

[Original paper](<https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.06793>)

[PDF](<https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.06793.pdf>)