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Many vision-language models (VLMs) that prove very effective at a range of multimodal task, build on CLIP-based vision encoders, which are known to have various limitations. We investigate the hypothesis that the strong language backbone in…

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Vision language models (VLMs) are an exciting emerging class of language models (LMs) that have merged classic LM capabilities with those of image processing systems. However, the ways that these capabilities combine are not always…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Qiucheng Wu , Handong Zhao , Michael Saxon , Trung Bui , William Yang Wang , Yang Zhang , Shiyu Chang

Video-language pre-training (VLP) has become increasingly important due to its ability to generalize to various vision and language tasks. However, existing egocentric VLP frameworks utilize separate video and language encoders and learn…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Shraman Pramanick , Yale Song , Sayan Nag , Kevin Qinghong Lin , Hardik Shah , Mike Zheng Shou , Rama Chellappa , Pengchuan Zhang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in cross-modal understanding and generation by integrating visual and textual information. While instruction tuning and parameter-efficient fine-tuning methods have…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Weiying Zheng , Ziyue Lin , Pengxin Guo , Yuyin Zhou , Feifei Wang , Liangqiong Qu

Large language models (LLMs) have proven their remarkable versatility in handling a comprehensive range of language-centric applications. To expand LLMs' capabilities to a broader spectrum of modal inputs, multimodal large language models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-07 Qiang Zhou , Zhibin Wang , Wei Chu , Yinghui Xu , Hao Li , Yuan Qi

Pre-trained language models have been shown to improve performance in many natural language tasks substantially. Although the early focus of such models was single language pre-training, recent advances have resulted in cross-lingual and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-22 Ozan Caglayan , Menekse Kuyu , Mustafa Sercan Amac , Pranava Madhyastha , Erkut Erdem , Aykut Erdem , Lucia Specia

Despite rapid progress in large language models (LLMs), their performance on a vast majority of languages remains unsatisfactory. In this paper, we study building language-specific LLMs by adapting monolingual and multilingual LLMs. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Atula Tejaswi , Nilesh Gupta , Eunsol Choi

With the rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), a variety of benchmarks have been introduced to evaluate their capabilities. While most evaluations have focused on complex tasks such as scientific comprehension and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Huan Liu , Lingyu Xiao , Jiangjiang Liu , Xiaofan Li , Ze Feng , Sen Yang , Jingdong Wang

Pre-training of text and layout has proved effective in a variety of visually-rich document understanding tasks due to its effective model architecture and the advantage of large-scale unlabeled scanned/digital-born documents. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-11 Yang Xu , Yiheng Xu , Tengchao Lv , Lei Cui , Furu Wei , Guoxin Wang , Yijuan Lu , Dinei Florencio , Cha Zhang , Wanxiang Che , Min Zhang , Lidong Zhou

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models leverage Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for robotic control, but recent studies reveal that MLLMs exhibit limited spatial intelligence due to training predominantly on 2D data, resulting in…

The integration of vision-language modalities has been a significant focus in multimodal learning, traditionally relying on Vision-Language Pretrained Models. However, with the advent of Large Language Models (LLMs), there has been a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-05 Xiaorui Ma , Haoran Xie , S. Joe Qin

Contemporary Vision-Language Models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on a wide range of tasks by pairing a vision encoder with a pre-trained language model, fine-tuned for visual-text inputs. Yet despite these gains, it remains unclear how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Lachin Naghashyar , Hunar Batra , Ashkan Khakzar , Philip Torr , Ronald Clark , Christian Schroeder de Witt , Constantin Venhoff

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently demonstrated impressive capabilities in connecting vision and language, yet their proficiency in fundamental visual reasoning tasks remains limited. This limitation can be attributed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Davide Caffagni , Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Pier Luigi Dovesi , Shaghayegh Roohi , Mark Granroth-Wilding , Rita Cucchiara

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) combine visual perception with the general capabilities, such as reasoning, of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, the mechanisms by which these two abilities can be combined and contribute remain poorly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-16 Shiqi Chen , Jinghan Zhang , Tongyao Zhu , Wei Liu , Siyang Gao , Miao Xiong , Manling Li , Junxian He

In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress, primarily attributed to effective paradigms for integrating visual and textual information. The dominant connector-based paradigm projects visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Xinpeng Dong , Min Zhang , Kairong Han , Xu Tan , Fei Wu , Kun Kuang

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant strides in various visual understanding tasks. However, the majority of these models are constrained to process low-resolution images, which limits their effectiveness in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-28 Xiangyu Zhao , Xiangtai Li , Haodong Duan , Haian Huang , Yining Li , Kai Chen , Hua Yang

Current Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly rely on end-to-end fine-tuning. While effective, this paradigm compromises the inherent generalization capabilities of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) and incurs catastrophic…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in interpreting visual layouts and text. However, a significant challenge remains in their ability to interpret robustly and reason over multi-tabular data presented as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Anshul Singh , Chris Biemann , Jan Strich

Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown powerful capabilities in visual question answering and reasoning tasks by combining visual representations with the abstract skill set large language models (LLMs) learn during pretraining. Vision,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-01 Riley Tavassoli , Mani Amani , Reza Akhavian

Large language models such as BERT and the GPT series started a paradigm shift that calls for building general-purpose models via pre-training on large datasets, followed by fine-tuning on task-specific datasets. There is now a plethora of…

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