  This paper studies ensembling in the era of Large Vision-Language Models
(LVLMs). Ensembling is a classical method to combine different models to get
increased performance. In the recent work on Encyclopedic-VQA the authors
examine a wide variety of models to solve their task: from vanilla LVLMs, to
models including the caption as extra context, to models augmented with
Lens-based retrieval of Wikipedia pages. Intuitively these models are highly
complementary, which should make them ideal for ensembling. Indeed, an oracle
experiment shows potential gains from 48.8% accuracy (the best single model)
all the way up to 67% (best possible ensemble). So it is a trivial exercise to
create an ensemble with substantial real gains. Or is it?

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition