# ViperGPT: Visual Inference via Python Execution for Reasoning

**Authors:** Dídac Surís, Sachit Menon, Carl Vondrick  
**arXiv:** [2303.08128](https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.08128)  
**Date:** 2023-03-14  
**Summary page:** https://www.summarizepaper.com/fr/paper/2303.08128v1/

## Abstract

Answering visual queries is a complex task that requires both visual processing and reasoning. End-to-end models, the dominant approach for this task, do not explicitly differentiate between the two, limiting interpretability and generalization. Learning modular programs presents a promising alternative, but has proven challenging due to the difficulty of learning both the programs and modules simultaneously. We introduce ViperGPT, a framework that leverages code-generation models to compose vision-and-language models into subroutines to produce a result for any query. ViperGPT utilizes a provided API to access the available modules, and composes them by generating Python code that is later executed. This simple approach requires no further training, and achieves state-of-the-art results across various complex visual tasks.