A structured set of research notes on Visual Question Answering, with concrete evaluation references and open questions. Plans and hypotheses are kept separate from completed results. - the scope of the research question and likely confounders - a proposed comparison with matched baselines - concrete evaluation context such as VQAv2, GQA, and OK-VQA - reproducibility checks, failure modes, and open questions - topic-relevant references Start with summary.md for the full note. Sections labeled as plans or hypotheses should not be interpreted as experimental results. If results are added later, they should include dataset versions, commands, seeds, hardware, and raw logs. The note is…