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Manually generating catchy descriptions and names is labor intensive and a slow process for retailers. Although generative AI provides an automation solution in form of Vision to Language Models (VLM), the current VLMs are prone to factual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Nayan Kumar Singh

We introduce UniToken, an auto-regressive generation model that encodes visual inputs through a combination of discrete and continuous representations, enabling seamless integration of unified visual understanding and image generation…

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This paper presents a multimodal framework that attempts to unify visual understanding and generation within a shared discrete semantic representation. At its core is the Text-Aligned Tokenizer (TA-Tok), which converts images into discrete…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Jiaming Han , Hao Chen , Yang Zhao , Hanyu Wang , Qi Zhao , Ziyan Yang , Hao He , Xiangyu Yue , Lu Jiang

With the recent success of the pre-training technique for NLP and image-linguistic tasks, some video-linguistic pre-training works are gradually developed to improve video-text related downstream tasks. However, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Huaishao Luo , Lei Ji , Botian Shi , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Tianrui Li , Jason Li , Taroon Bharti , Ming Zhou

Natural Language Explanations (NLE) aim at supplementing the prediction of a model with human-friendly natural text. Existing NLE approaches involve training separate models for each downstream task. In this work, we propose Uni-NLX, a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-20 Fawaz Sammani , Nikos Deligiannis

Multimodal language generation, which leverages the synergy of language and vision, is a rapidly expanding field. However, existing vision-language models face challenges in tasks that require complex linguistic understanding. To address…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Jiwan Chung , Youngjae Yu

Generative modeling has recently shown great promise in computer vision, but it has mostly focused on synthesizing visually realistic images. In this paper, motivated by multi-task learning of shareable feature representations, we consider…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-06-28 Zhipeng Bao , Martial Hebert , Yu-Xiong Wang

Recent advances in generative diffusion models have enabled text-controlled synthesis of realistic and diverse images with impressive quality. Despite these remarkable advances, the application of text-to-image generative models in computer…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Yulu Gan , Sungwoo Park , Alexander Schubert , Anthony Philippakis , Ahmed M. Alaa

It is still challenging to build an AI system that can perform tasks that involve vision and language at human level. So far, researchers have singled out individual tasks separately, for each of which they have designed networks and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-12-04 Duy-Kien Nguyen , Takayuki Okatani

Vision-language models (VLMs) have tremendous potential for grounding language, and thus enabling language-conditioned agents (LCAs) to perform diverse tasks specified with text. This has motivated the study of LCAs based on reinforcement…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-27 Theo Cachet , Christopher R. Dance , Olivier Sigaud

The development of language models have moved from encoder-decoder to decoder-only designs. In addition, we observe that the two most popular multimodal tasks, the generative and contrastive tasks, are nontrivial to accommodate in one…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-10 Weicheng Kuo , AJ Piergiovanni , Dahun Kim , Xiyang Luo , Ben Caine , Wei Li , Abhijit Ogale , Luowei Zhou , Andrew Dai , Zhifeng Chen , Claire Cui , Anelia Angelova

Algorithms for text-generation in dialogue can be misguided. For example, in task-oriented settings, reinforcement learning that optimizes only task-success can lead to abysmal lexical diversity. We hypothesize this is due to poor…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-17 Anthony Sicilia , Malihe Alikhani

We propose a learning system in which language is grounded in visual percepts without specific pre-defined categories of terms. We present a unified generative method to acquire a shared semantic/visual embedding that enables the learning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Nisha Pillai , Cynthia Matuszek , Francis Ferraro

The fashion domain encompasses a variety of real-world multimodal tasks, including multimodal retrieval and multimodal generation. The rapid advancements in artificial intelligence generated content, particularly in technologies like large…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-15 Xiangyu Zhao , Yuehan Zhang , Wenlong Zhang , Xiao-Ming Wu

The goal-oriented document-grounded dialogue aims at responding to the user query based on the dialogue context and supporting document. Existing studies tackle this problem by decomposing it into two sub-tasks: knowledge identification and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Chang Gao , Wenxuan Zhang , Wai Lam

Conventional methods for the image-text generation tasks mainly tackle the naturally bidirectional generation tasks separately, focusing on designing task-specific frameworks to improve the quality and fidelity of the generated samples.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-03 Han Zhang , Weichong Yin , Yewei Fang , Lanxin Li , Boqiang Duan , Zhihua Wu , Yu Sun , Hao Tian , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

Low-level vision involves a wide spectrum of tasks, including image restoration, enhancement, stylization, and feature extraction, which differ significantly in both task formulation and output domains. To address the challenge of unified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xiangyu Chen , Kaiwen Zhu , Yuandong Pu , Shuo Cao , Xiaohui Li , Wenlong Zhang , Yihao Liu , Yu Qiao , Jiantao Zhou , Chao Dong

Recognition and reasoning are two pillars of visual understanding. However, these tasks have an imbalance in focus; whereas recent advances in neural networks have shown strong empirical performance in visual recognition, there has been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Calvin Luo , Boqing Gong , Ting Chen , Chen Sun

Visual Dialog aims to answer multi-round, interactive questions based on the dialog history and image content. Existing methods either consider answer ranking and generating individually or only weakly capture the relation across the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Cheng Chen , Yudong Zhu , Zhenshan Tan , Qingrong Cheng , Xin Jiang , Qun Liu , Xiaodong Gu

This paper presents OmniVL, a new foundation model to support both image-language and video-language tasks using one universal architecture. It adopts a unified transformer-based visual encoder for both image and video inputs, and thus can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-21 Junke Wang , Dongdong Chen , Zuxuan Wu , Chong Luo , Luowei Zhou , Yucheng Zhao , Yujia Xie , Ce Liu , Yu-Gang Jiang , Lu Yuan