# Learning Compositional Representation for Few-shot Visual Question Answering Source: [Learning Compositional Representation for Few-shot Visual Question Answering]() Collection index: [llms.txt]() Data updated: 2025-10-25T22:58:51.104Z Authors: Dalu Guo, Dacheng Tao Published: 2021-02-21T10:16:24.000Z ## Abstract Current methods of Visual Question Answering perform well on the answers with an amount of training data but have limited accuracy on the novel ones with few examples. However, humans can quickly adapt to these new categories with just a few glimpses, as they learn to organize the concepts that have been seen before to figure the novel class, which are hardly explored by the deep learning methods. Therefore, in this paper, we propose to extract the attributes from the answers with enough data, which are later composed to constrain the learning of the few-shot ones. We generate the few-shot dataset of VQA with a variety of answers and their attributes without any human effort. With this dataset, we build our attribute network to disentangle the attributes by learning their features from parts of the image instead of the whole one. Experimental results on the VQA v2.0 validation dataset demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed attribute network and the constraint between answers and their corresponding attributes, as well as the ability of our method to handle the answers with few training examples. ## 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]() [PDF]()