arxiv: 2604.04838 · v2 · submitted 2026-04-06 · 💻 cs.CV

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Less Detail, Better Answers: Degradation-Driven Prompting for VQA

Haoxuan Han , Weijie Wang , Zeyu Zhang , Yefei He , Bohan Zhuang

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keywords visual question answeringvision-language modelsimage degradationpromptingperceptual illusionsstructural promptshallucination reduction

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Intentionally degrading images with targeted prompts improves visual question answering accuracy in vision-language models.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper argues that excessive high-resolution details in images often act as noise, causing vision-language models to hallucinate or reason incorrectly during visual question answering. It introduces Degradation-Driven Prompting, a method that deliberately lowers image fidelity through downsampling, masks, and contrast adjustments while supplying structural prompts and in-context examples to steer attention toward essential shapes and relations. The approach is applied separately to physical attribute judgments and to perceptual anomalies such as illusions and gestalt effects. Experiments across these tasks show higher accuracy when models receive the degraded inputs and prompts than when they receive the original high-detail images.

Core claim

Degradation-Driven Prompting reduces image fidelity via 80p downsampling, white-background masks, orthometric lines, blur masks, and contrast enhancement, then supplies task-specific structural aids and in-context learning; this combination lets VLMs bypass texture-based distractions and reach higher accuracy on physical-attribute and perceptual-phenomena VQA benchmarks.

What carries the argument

Degradation-Driven Prompting (DDP), a two-stage prompting framework that first classifies the visual task then applies controlled fidelity reduction plus structural overlays to emphasize geometric and relational information over fine-grained textures.

If this is right

Physical-attribute questions that humans often misjudge become easier once distracting surface details are removed.
Perceptual anomalies such as color illusions, motion illusions, and gestalt figures are handled more reliably after task-specific degradation and prompting.
In-context learning combined with the degraded images calibrates the model to ignore textures that previously caused errors.
A single classification step before degradation allows different mask and contrast tools to be matched to each anomaly type.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

Current VLMs appear to overweight high-frequency texture cues that are not needed for the underlying reasoning task.
The same controlled-degradation idea could be tested on other multimodal benchmarks where surface details currently trigger errors.
Model training that includes degraded examples might reduce the need for external prompting at inference time.
The benefit may depend on the model's pretraining scale, so repeating the protocol on larger or smaller VLMs would clarify its generality.

Load-bearing premise

Lowering image detail removes misleading noise without discarding the structural cues required for correct answers.

What would settle it

Performance on the same physical-attribute and perceptual-phenomena benchmarks would need to drop when the same degradation steps are applied at even lower resolutions or stronger masks.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.04838 by Bohan Zhuang, Haoxuan Han, Weijie Wang, Yefei He, Zeyu Zhang.

**Figure 1.** Figure 1: Less is More in Visual Perception. Comparison between a standard high-resolution pipeline and our proposed DDP strategy. While high-resolution inputs (500 × 400p) can paradoxically lead to misinterpretation (e.g., identifying ”18” instead of ”73”), our DDP leverages lower resolution (80 × 64p) to eliminate background noise. This approach achieves a 50% reduction in response time and a 50% improvement in… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Figure 2: Overcoming visual reasoning bottlenecks via the DDP framework. Standard VLMs are easily deceived by optical illusions or occlusions (e.g., a dog seemingly split by a tree). Our DDP approach introduces a ”divide-and-conquer” strategy: the classifier categorizes the image type, the tool manager invokes specialized visual tools (e.g., draw rectangle and crop) to highlight suspicious regions, and the Critic sy… view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** Figure 3: Overview of the DDP-based VLM enhancement framework. The workflow consists of three primary stages: (1) classifier: The input image and choice question are categorized into preset domains (e.g., motion illustration, colorblindness, or color attributes) to guide subsequent tool selection. (2) tool manager: After an initial noise-removal downsampling, a DDP agent performs iterative function calls to select s… view at source ↗

**Figure 4.** Figure 4: A case study demonstrating how DDP leverages external tools to solve visual perception bottlenecks. The pipeline iteratively classifies the task, invokes specific image-processing tools (blurring and contrast enhancement), and utilizes the resulting ”degraded” yet cleaner visual features to perform robust reasoning on perception-intensive tasks [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p006_4.png] view at source ↗

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Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly pushed the boundaries of Visual Question Answering (VQA).However,high-resolution details can sometimes become noise that leads to hallucinations or reasoning errors. In this paper,we propose Degradation-Driven Prompting (DDP), a novel framework that improves VQA performance by strategically reducing image fidelity to force models to focus on essential structural information. We evaluate DDP across two distinct tasks. Physical attributes targets images prone to human misjudgment, where DDP employs a combination of 80p downsampling, structural visual aids (white background masks and orthometric lines), and In-Context Learning (ICL) to calibrate the model's focus. Perceptual phenomena addresses various machine-susceptible visual anomalies and illusions, including Visual Anomaly (VA), Color (CI), Motion(MI),Gestalt (GI), Geometric (GSI), and Visual Illusions (VI).For this task, DDP integrates a task-classification stage with specialized tools such as blur masks and contrast enhancement alongside downsampling. Our experimental results demonstrate that less is more: by intentionally degrading visual inputs and providing targeted structural prompts, DDP enables VLMs to bypass distracting textures and achieve superior reasoning accuracy on challenging visual benchmarks.

Editorial analysis

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The paper shows promise in using image degradation for better VQA but falls short on proving the degradation itself drives the gains.

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The key takeaway is that this paper suggests lowering image detail can improve VQA accuracy by reducing distractions, but the experiments mix degradation with other prompting tricks without separating their effects. They propose DDP as a framework that applies targeted degradations like downsampling to 80p, masks, and contrast adjustments, combined with in-context learning for physical attribute questions and task-specific tools for illusions. This builds on the observation that high-res details sometimes lead to wrong reasoning in VLMs. The method is straightforward to implement and targets real issues like visual anomalies and misjudgments. It does well in framing the problem and offering concrete tools for two task types. The idea of using degradation to force focus on essentials is not entirely new but gets a task-specific treatment here. The main weakness is the lack of isolation. We need to see if the structural prompts and ICL would work just as well without the downsampling or blur. If they do, the degradation claim weakens. Also, without seeing the actual numbers and baselines from the full paper, it's tough to judge how much better it really is. For a reader working on VLM robustness or prompting, this could be worth a look to test the techniques. It deserves peer review because the core idea is testable and addresses a practical pain point, even if revisions for better controls are needed.

Referee Report

3 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes Degradation-Driven Prompting (DDP), a framework for VQA that intentionally degrades visual inputs (via 80p downsampling, masks, blur, contrast changes) while adding structural prompts, task classification, white-background masks, orthometric lines, and ICL. It claims this forces VLMs to bypass distracting textures and focus on essential structure, yielding superior accuracy on physical-attribute tasks (prone to human misjudgment) and perceptual-phenomena tasks (VA, CI, MI, GI, GSI, VI).

Significance. If the performance gains are shown to be robust and causally attributable to degradation, the work would have moderate significance for VLM prompting research. It offers a counter-intuitive alternative to high-resolution inputs and could inform strategies for reducing hallucinations in visual reasoning. The approach is simple and does not require model fine-tuning, which would make it broadly applicable if validated.

major comments (3)

[Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that DDP 'achieve[s] superior reasoning accuracy on challenging visual benchmarks' is unsupported; the text supplies no accuracy numbers, baselines, error bars, statistical tests, or even the identity of the VLMs and datasets used.
[Abstract] Abstract: the necessity of degradation itself is not isolated. The method bundles downsampling/masks/blur/contrast with structural aids and ICL; no ablation or control condition (identical prompts and aids applied to undegraded images) is described, so the headline 'less is more' attribution cannot be evaluated.
[Abstract] Abstract: evaluation details are absent (number of examples per task, exact metrics, how 'task-classification stage' is implemented, or how success on illusions vs. physical attributes is measured), preventing any assessment of the reported superiority.

minor comments (2)

[Abstract] Abstract contains typographical issues: missing space after 'However,', undefined '80p', inconsistent punctuation in the task list ('Motion(MI),Gestalt (GI)'), and unclear term 'orthometric lines'.
[Abstract] The two tasks are introduced but the manuscript does not supply pseudocode, a clear algorithmic description of DDP, or a figure illustrating the degradation-plus-prompt pipeline.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the thoughtful feedback on our manuscript. The comments correctly identify that the abstract is too high-level and does not sufficiently substantiate the central claims with quantitative evidence or methodological details. We will revise the abstract to incorporate key results, ablation references, and evaluation specifics drawn from the full paper. We address each major comment below.

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Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the central claim that DDP 'achieve[s] superior reasoning accuracy on challenging visual benchmarks' is unsupported; the text supplies no accuracy numbers, baselines, error bars, statistical tests, or even the identity of the VLMs and datasets used.

Authors: We agree that the abstract as written does not include these supporting details. The full manuscript reports experiments on VLMs such as GPT-4V and LLaVA-1.6 across dedicated physical-attribute and perceptual-phenomena benchmarks, with accuracy improvements, baseline comparisons, and standard error reporting. We will revise the abstract to include representative accuracy figures, dataset identities, and a brief mention of the evaluation protocol. revision: yes
Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: the necessity of degradation itself is not isolated. The method bundles downsampling/masks/blur/contrast with structural aids and ICL; no ablation or control condition (identical prompts and aids applied to undegraded images) is described, so the headline 'less is more' attribution cannot be evaluated.

Authors: The referee is correct that the abstract does not explicitly describe controls isolating degradation. The manuscript body contains ablation experiments that apply the same structural prompts, masks, lines, and ICL to both degraded and undegraded images, demonstrating that the degradation step contributes measurably to the gains. We will add a concise statement to the abstract referencing these controls and the resulting attribution. revision: yes
Referee: [Abstract] Abstract: evaluation details are absent (number of examples per task, exact metrics, how 'task-classification stage' is implemented, or how success on illusions vs. physical attributes is measured), preventing any assessment of the reported superiority.

Authors: We acknowledge the absence of these specifics in the abstract. The paper defines the task-classification stage as an initial VLM prompt that routes queries to the appropriate DDP variant, evaluates 50–100 examples per sub-task using accuracy, and separately reports results for physical-attribute versus perceptual-phenomena categories. We will update the abstract to include these evaluation parameters. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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Empirical prompting method with no derivation chain or self-referential fitting

full rationale

The paper proposes and evaluates an empirical prompting framework (DDP) using downsampling, masks, and ICL on VQA benchmarks. No equations, derivations, fitted parameters, or self-citation chains appear in the provided text. Claims rest on experimental accuracy improvements rather than any reduction of outputs to inputs by construction. The skeptic concern about isolating degradation's causal role is a validity/experimental-design issue, not circularity.

Axiom & Free-Parameter Ledger

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The described approach is an empirical prompting technique with no mathematical derivations, fitted parameters, or new postulated entities visible in the abstract.

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