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3D Vision-Language Pre-training (3D-VLP) aims to provide a pre-train model which can bridge 3D scenes with natural language, which is an important technique for embodied intelligence. However, current 3D-VLP datasets are hindered by limited…

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The increasing availability of multimodal data across text, tables, and images presents new challenges for developing models capable of complex cross-modal reasoning. Existing methods for Multimodal Multi-hop Question Answering (MMQA) often…

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Pretrained models have produced great success in both Computer Vision (CV) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). This progress leads to learning joint representations of vision and language pretraining by feeding visual and linguistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-05 Siqu Long , Feiqi Cao , Soyeon Caren Han , Haiqin Yang

Pre-trained large vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP have revolutionized visual representation learning using natural language as supervisions, and demonstrated promising generalization ability. In this work, we propose ViP, a novel…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Xiao Fang , Yi Lin , Dong Zhang , Kwang-Ting Cheng , Hao Chen

Achieving deep alignment between vision and language remains a central challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). These models often fail to fully leverage visual input, defaulting to strong language priors. Our approach first…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Aarti Ghatkesar , Ganesh Venkatesh

The scarcity of data presents a critical obstacle to the efficacy of medical visionlanguage pre-training (VLP). A potential solution lies in the combination of datasets from various language communities. Nevertheless, the main challenge…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Zhongwei Wan , Che Liu , Mi Zhang , Jie Fu , Benyou Wang , Sibo Cheng , Lei Ma , César Quilodrán-Casas , Rossella Arcucci

In vision-language pre-training (VLP), masked image modeling (MIM) has recently been introduced for fine-grained cross-modal alignment. However, in most existing methods, the reconstruction targets for MIM lack high-level semantics, and…

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Vision-language models (VLMs) have shown promise in 2D medical image analysis, but extending them to 3D remains challenging due to the high computational demands of volumetric data and the difficulty of aligning 3D spatial features with…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Yu Xin , Gorkem Can Ates , Kuang Gong , Wei Shao

Medical vision-and-language models (MVLMs) have attracted substantial interest due to their capability to offer a natural language interface for interpreting complex medical data. Their applications are versatile and have the potential to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Qi Chen , Ruoshan Zhao , Sinuo Wang , Vu Minh Hieu Phan , Anton van den Hengel , Johan Verjans , Zhibin Liao , Minh-Son To , Yong Xia , Jian Chen , Yutong Xie , Qi Wu

Vision-Language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on multimodal tasks but often fail at systematic visual reasoning tasks, leading to inconsistent or illogical outputs. Neuro-symbolic methods promise to address this by inducing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Antonia Wüst , Wolfgang Stammer , Hikaru Shindo , Lukas Helff , Devendra Singh Dhami , Kristian Kersting

With the availability of large-scale, comprehensive, and general-purpose vision-language (VL) datasets such as MSCOCO, vision-language pre-training (VLP) has become an active area of research and proven to be effective for various VL tasks…

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The success of Vision Language Models (VLMs) on various vision-language tasks heavily relies on pre-training with large scale web-crawled datasets. However, the noisy and incomplete nature of web data makes dataset scale crucial for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-25 Yiyi Tao , Zhuoyue Wang , Hang Zhang , Lun Wang

The large-scale pre-trained vision language models (VLM) have shown remarkable domain transfer capability on natural images. However, it remains unknown whether this capability can also apply to the medical image domain. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-02-08 Ziyuan Qin , Huahui Yi , Qicheng Lao , Kang Li

Recent advances in visual-language machine learning models have demonstrated exceptional ability to use natural language and understand visual scenes by training on large, unstructured datasets. However, this training paradigm cannot…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-01 Anthony C Davis , Burhan Sadiq , Tianmin Shu , Chien-Ming Huang

Vision-and-language pretraining (VLP) aims to learn generic multimodal representations from massive image-text pairs. While various successful attempts have been proposed, learning fine-grained semantic alignments between image-text pairs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-17 Yuhao Cui , Zhou Yu , Chunqi Wang , Zhongzhou Zhao , Ji Zhang , Meng Wang , Jun Yu

Does the prior knowledge of the vision encoder constrain the capability boundary of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs)? While most existing research treats MLLMs as unified systems optimized through end-to-end training, the impact of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-02 Qiao Liang , Yanjiang Liu , Weixiang Zhou , Ben He , Yaojie Lu , Hongyu Lin , Jia Zheng , Xianpei Han , Le Sun , Yingfei Sun

In medical image classification, supervised learning is challenging due to the scarcity of labeled medical images. To address this, we leverage the visual-textual alignment within Vision-Language Models (VLMs) to enable unsupervised…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Umaima Rahman , Raza Imam , Mohammad Yaqub , Boulbaba Ben Amor , Dwarikanath Mahapatra

Following the impressive development of LLMs, vision-language alignment in LLMs is actively being researched to enable multimodal reasoning and visual IO. This direction of research is particularly relevant to medical imaging because…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-19 Suhyeon Lee , Won Jun Kim , Jinho Chang , Jong Chul Ye

Recently, there has been a surge in the popularity of pre trained large language models (LLMs) (such as GPT-4), sweeping across the entire Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Computer Vision (CV) communities. These LLMs have demonstrated…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-09 Shuxiao Ma , Linyuan Wang , Senbao Hou , Bin Yan

Vision-and-language pretraining (VLP) in the medical field utilizes contrastive learning on image-text pairs to achieve effective transfer across tasks. Yet, current VLP approaches with the masked modeling strategy face two challenges when…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-17 Biao Wu , Yutong Xie , Zeyu Zhang , Minh Hieu Phan , Qi Chen , Ling Chen , Qi Wu