Hongda Jiang


2025

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Memory-QA: Answering Recall Questions Based on Multimodal Memories
Hongda Jiang | Xinyuan Zhang | Siddhant Garg | Rishab Arora | Shiun-Zu Kuo | Jiayang Xu | Aaron Colak | Xin Luna Dong
Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

We introduce Memory-QA, a novel real-world task that involves answering recall questions about visual content from previously stored multimodal memories. This task poses unique challenges, including the creation of task-oriented memories, the effective utilization of temporal and location information within memories, and the ability to draw upon multiple memories to answer a recall question. To address these challenges, we propose a comprehensive pipeline, Pensieve, integrating memory-specific augmentation, time- and location-aware multi-signal retrieval, and multi-memory QA fine-tuning. We created a multimodal benchmark to illustrate various real challenges in this task, and show the superior performance of Pensieve over state-of-the-art solutions (up to +14% on QA accuracy).