Explore how Question Answering (QA) uses AI to provide factual answers. Learn about VQA with [YOLO26](https://docs.ultralytics.com/models/yolo26/) and NLP techniques.
Question Answering (QA) is a specialized field within artificial intelligence (AI) and natural language processing (NLP) focused on building systems that automatically answer questions posed by humans in natural language. Unlike traditional search engines that retrieve a list of relevant documents or web pages, a QA system attempts to understand the intent of the user's query and provide a precise, factual answer. This capability bridges the gap between massive, unstructured data repositories and the specific information needs of users, making it a critical component of modern AI Agents and virtual assistants.
At its core, a Question Answering system involves three main stages: question processing, document retrieval, and answer extraction. First, the system analyzes the input query to determine what is being asked (e.g., a "who," "where," or "how" question) and identifies key entities. Next, it searches through a knowledge base—which could be a closed set of manuals or the open internet—to find passages relevant to the query. Finally, it uses advanced techniques like machine reading comprehension to pinpoint the exact answer within the text or generate a response based on the synthesized information.
Modern QA systems often leverage Large Language Models (LLMs) and transformers like BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) to achieve high accuracy. These models are pre-trained on vast amounts of text, allowing them to grasp context, nuance, and semantic relationships better than keyword-based methods.
QAシステムは、一般的にアクセスするデータの領域とサポートするモダリティによって分類される。
QA技術の展開は、産業が膨大な非構造化データと関わる方法を変革している。
ビジュアル質問応答(VQA)では、システムはまずシーン内の物体とその関係を識別する必要があります。高性能な物体検出モデルはQAシステムの「目」として機能します。Ultralytics 最適であり、シーン要素を迅速かつ正確に検出します。検出された要素は推論のために言語モデルへ入力されます。
The following Python example demonstrates how to use the Ultralytics YOLO26 model to extract visual context (objects) from an image, which is the foundational step in a VQA pipeline:
from ultralytics import YOLO
# Load a pre-trained YOLO26 model (latest generation)
model = YOLO("yolo26n.pt")
# Perform inference to identify objects in the image
# This provides the "visual facts" for a QA system
results = model("https://ultralytics.com/images/bus.jpg")
# Display the detected objects and their labels
results[0].show()
機械学習の分野において、質問応答(Question Answering)を類似の用語と区別することは有益である:
The evolution of QA is heavily supported by open-source frameworks like PyTorch and TensorFlow, enabling developers to build increasingly sophisticated systems that understand the world through both text and pixels. For those looking to manage datasets for training these systems, the Ultralytics Platform offers comprehensive tools for annotation and model management.