Reusable prompt structures help vision-language models interpret negated questions

Skeleton-and-Strategy Prompting identifies a question’s negation pattern, generates a concise answering rule, and reuses that guidance without updating model parameters.

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Yuliang Cai · Mohammad Rostami · Jesse Thomason

University of Southern California · Amazon Inc.

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Cai, Rostami and Thomason introduce Skeleton-and-Strategy Prompting (SSP), an inference-time method for visual question answering involving absence, exclusion and logical opposition.

” It then retrieves a small set of questions with the same skeleton from a lightweight example pool.

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From Amazon Inc. and University of Southern California

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Skeleton-and-Strategy Prompting improves vision-language models' negation understanding without training by injecting structure-aware prompts.

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