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Fast or Slow? Integrating Fast Intuition and Deliberate Thinking for Enhancing Visual Question Answering

1 June 2025
Songtao Jiang
Chenyi Zhou
Yan Zhang
Yeying Jin
Zuozhu Liu
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Main:5 Pages
6 Figures
Bibliography:2 Pages
6 Tables
Appendix:3 Pages
Abstract

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) still struggle with complex reasoning tasks in Visual Question Answering (VQA). While current methods have advanced by incorporating visual prompts, our study uncovers critical limitations: these approaches indiscriminately annotate all detected objects for every visual question, generating excessive visual markers that degrade task performance. This issue stems primarily from a lack of focus on key visual elements, raising two important questions: Are all objects equally important, and do all questions require visual prompts? Motivated by Dual Process Theory, which distinguishes between instinctive and deliberate cognitive modes in human reasoning, we propose FOCUS, a plug-and-play approach that dynamically adapts to the complexity of questions, combining fast intuitive judgments with deliberate analytical reasoning to enhance the vision-language reasoning capability of the MLLM. For straightforward questions, FOCUS supports efficient zero-shot reasoning. For more complex tasks, it employs the conceptualizing before observation strategy to highlight critical elements. Extensive experiments on four benchmarks, ScienceQA, TextQA, VizWiz, and MME, demonstrate that FOCUS consistently improves the performance of both open-source and black-box MLLMs, achieving significant gains across all datasets. Ablation studies further validate the importance of combining diverse cognitive strategies with refined visual information for superior performance. Code will be released.

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@article{jiang2025_2506.00806,
  title={ Fast or Slow? Integrating Fast Intuition and Deliberate Thinking for Enhancing Visual Question Answering },
  author={ Songtao Jiang and Chenyi Zhou and Yan Zhang and Yeying Jin and Zuozhu Liu },
  journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.00806},
  year={ 2025 }
}
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