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Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning

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This paper cites Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone.

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning Phi-3 Technical Report: A Highly Capable Language Model Locally on Your Phone

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This paper cites Bioengineering (2023).

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning Bioengineering (2023)

Reference 2

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Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning Stable LM 2 1.6B Technical Report

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This paper cites HuatuoGPT-o1, Towards Medical Complex Reasoning with LLMs.

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning HuatuoGPT-o1, Towards Medical Complex Reasoning with LLMs

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Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning HuatuoGPT-Vision, Towards Injecting Medical Visual Knowledge into Multimodal LLMs at Scale

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This paper cites In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (June 2019).

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) (June 2019)

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This paper cites PathVQA: 30000+ Questions for Medical Visual Question Answering.

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning PathVQA: 30000+ Questions for Medical Visual Question Answering

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Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning GPT-4o System Card

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This paper cites CAPO: Reinforcing Consistent Reasoning in Medical Decision-Making.

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning CAPO: Reinforcing Consistent Reasoning in Medical Decision-Making

Reference 10

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This paper cites OmniV-Med: Scaling Medical Vision-Language Model for Universal Visual Understanding.

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning OmniV-Med: Scaling Medical Vision-Language Model for Universal Visual Understanding

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This paper cites Modality-Fair Preference Optimization for Trustworthy MLLM Alignment.

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning Modality-Fair Preference Optimization for Trustworthy MLLM Alignment

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This paper cites HSCR: Hierarchical Self-Contrastive Rewarding for Aligning Medical Vision Language Models.

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning HSCR: Hierarchical Self-Contrastive Rewarding for Aligning Medical Vision Language Models

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This paper cites In: Find- ingsoftheAssociationforComputationalLinguistics:EMNLP2024.pp.3843–3860 (2024).

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning In: Find- ingsoftheAssociationforComputationalLinguistics:EMNLP2024.pp.3843–3860 (2024)

Reference 14

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This paper cites Advances in neural information processing systems33, 18661–18673 (2020).

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning Advances in neural information processing systems33, 18661–18673 (2020)

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This paper cites Scientific data 5(1), 1–10 (2018).

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning Scientific data 5(1), 1–10 (2018)

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This paper cites Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems36 (2024).

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems36 (2024)

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This paper cites Self-supervised vision-language pretraining for Medical visual question answering.

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning Self-supervised vision-language pretraining for Medical visual question answering

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Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning IEEE (2021)

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Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning In: Proceedings of the IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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This paper cites MedCoT: Medical Chain of Thought via Hierarchical Expert.

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning MedCoT: Medical Chain of Thought via Hierarchical Expert

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Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning Q2ATransformer: Improving Medical VQA via an Answer Querying Decoder

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Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning In: Machine Learning for Health (ML4H)

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This paper cites Sunny and Dark Outside?! Improving Answer Consistency in VQA through Entailed Question Generation.

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning Sunny and Dark Outside?! Improving Answer Consistency in VQA through Entailed Question Generation

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This paper cites Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models.

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning Towards Expert-Level Medical Question Answering with Large Language Models

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Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning Open-Ended Medical Visual Question Answering Through Prefix Tuning of Language Models

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Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning STLLaVA-Med: Self-Training Large Language and Vision Assistant for Medical Question-Answering

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Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning In: European Conference on Computer Vision

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This paper cites BiomedGPT: A Generalist Vision-Language Foundation Model for Diverse Biomedical Tasks.

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning BiomedGPT: A Generalist Vision-Language Foundation Model for Diverse Biomedical Tasks

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Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning BiomedCLIP: a multimodal biomedical foundation model pretrained from fifteen million scientific image-text pairs

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This paper cites PMC-VQA: Visual Instruction Tuning for Medical Visual Question Answering.

Knowing or Guessing? Robust Medical Visual Question Answering via Joint Consistency and Contrastive Learning PMC-VQA: Visual Instruction Tuning for Medical Visual Question Answering

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