Atomic Visual Entailment: Enhancing Zero-Shot Vision-Language Reasoning through Atomic Fact Decomposition and Learned Selection

Visual entailment (VE) asks whether an image supports, contradicts, or leaves undecided a textual hypothesis. Strong results come from fine-tuning large vision-language models on labelled data, while zero-shot and hybrid approaches remain far behind. A VE hypothesis often bundles several visual clai