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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

Multimodal learning, especially large-scale multimodal pre-training, has developed rapidly over the past few years and led to the greatest advances in artificial intelligence (AI). Despite its effectiveness, understanding the underlying…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2022-08-18 Haoyu Lu , Qiongyi Zhou , Nanyi Fei , Zhiwu Lu , Mingyu Ding , Jingyuan Wen , Changde Du , Xin Zhao , Hao Sun , Huiguang He , Ji-Rong Wen

Vision-language fine-tuning has emerged as an efficient paradigm for constructing multimodal foundation models. While textual context often highlights semantic relationships within an image, existing fine-tuning methods typically overlook…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Xiangyang Wu , Liu Liu , Baosheng Yu , Jiayan Qiu , Zhenwei Shi

Automated radiology report generation is key for reducing radiologist workload and improving diagnostic consistency, yet generating accurate reports for 3D medical imaging remains challenging. Existing vision-language models face two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Pengcheng Shi , Minghui Zhang , Kehan Song , Jiaqi Liu , Yun Gu , Xinglin Zhang

Unified vision-language frameworks have greatly advanced in recent years, most of which adopt an encoder-decoder architecture to unify image-text tasks as sequence-to-sequence generation. However, existing video-language (VidL) models still…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-16 Linjie Li , Zhe Gan , Kevin Lin , Chung-Ching Lin , Zicheng Liu , Ce Liu , Lijuan Wang

The foundation models have recently shown excellent performance on a variety of downstream tasks in computer vision. However, most existing vision foundation models simply focus on image-level pretraining and adpation, which are limited for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-08 Yi Wang , Kunchang Li , Yizhuo Li , Yinan He , Bingkun Huang , Zhiyu Zhao , Hongjie Zhang , Jilan Xu , Yi Liu , Zun Wang , Sen Xing , Guo Chen , Junting Pan , Jiashuo Yu , Yali Wang , Limin Wang , Yu Qiao

Foundational multimodal models pre-trained on large scale image-text pairs or video-text pairs or both have shown strong generalization abilities on downstream tasks. However unlike image-text models, pretraining video-text models is always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Avinash Madasu , Anahita Bhiwandiwalla , Vasudev Lal

Current machine learning models for vision are often highly specialized and limited to a single modality and task. In contrast, recent large language models exhibit a wide range of capabilities, hinting at a possibility for similarly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-12 David Mizrahi , Roman Bachmann , Oğuzhan Fatih Kar , Teresa Yeo , Mingfei Gao , Afshin Dehghan , Amir Zamir

Foundation models are vital tools in various Computer Vision applications. They take as input a single RGB image and output a deep feature representation that is useful for various applications. However, in case we have multiple views of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Leo Segre , Or Hirschorn , Shai Avidan

Despite large-scale pretraining endowing models with language and vision reasoning capabilities, improving their spatial reasoning capability remains challenging due to the lack of data grounded in the 3D world. While it is possible for…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have emerged as powerful tools for image understanding tasks, yet their practical deployment remains hindered by significant architectural heterogeneity across model families. This paper introduces UVLM…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Joan Perez , Giovanni Fusco

Recently, we have witnessed the great success of the generalist model in natural language processing. The generalist model is a general framework trained with massive data and is able to process various downstream tasks simultaneously.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ziyi Wang , Yongming Rao , Shuofeng Sun , Xinrun Liu , Yi Wei , Xumin Yu , Zuyan Liu , Yanbo Wang , Hongmin Liu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Unlike traditional vision-only models, vision language models (VLMs) offer an intuitive way to access visual content through language prompting by combining a large language model (LLM) with a vision encoder. However, both the LLM and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Paul Gavrikov , Jovita Lukasik , Steffen Jung , Robert Geirhos , M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Margret Keuper , Janis Keuper

The remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) has extended to the multimodal domain, achieving outstanding performance in image understanding and generation. Recent efforts to develop unified Multimodal Large Language Models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-13 Hao Li , Changyao Tian , Jie Shao , Xizhou Zhu , Zhaokai Wang , Jinguo Zhu , Wenhan Dou , Xiaogang Wang , Hongsheng Li , Lewei Lu , Jifeng Dai

Modular vision-language models (Vision-LLMs) align pretrained image encoders with (frozen) large language models (LLMs) and post-hoc condition LLMs to `understand' the image input. With the abundance of readily available high-quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Gregor Geigle , Abhay Jain , Radu Timofte , Goran Glavaš

In this paper, we propose VideoLLaMA3, a more advanced multimodal foundation model for image and video understanding. The core design philosophy of VideoLLaMA3 is vision-centric. The meaning of "vision-centric" is two-fold: the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Boqiang Zhang , Kehan Li , Zesen Cheng , Zhiqiang Hu , Yuqian Yuan , Guanzheng Chen , Sicong Leng , Yuming Jiang , Hang Zhang , Xin Li , Peng Jin , Wenqi Zhang , Fan Wang , Lidong Bing , Deli Zhao

Foundation models (FMs) are changing the way medical images are analyzed by learning from large collections of unlabeled data. Instead of relying on manually annotated examples, FMs are pre-trained to learn general-purpose visual features…

In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities in tasks like visual question answering and common sense reasoning, while visual perception models have made significant strides in perception…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Guanqun Wang , Xinyu Wei , Jiaming Liu , Ray Zhang , Yichi Zhang , Kevin Zhang , Maurice Chong , Shanghang Zhang

Purpose: To investigate whether a vision-language foundation model can enhance undersampled MRI reconstruction by providing high-level contextual information beyond conventional priors. Methods: We proposed a semantic distribution-guided…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Ruimin Feng , Xingxin He , Ronald Mercer , Zachary Stewart , Fang Liu

AI-communication integration is widely regarded as a core enabling technology for 6G. Most existing AI-based physical-layer designs rely on task-specific models that are separately tailored to individual modules, resulting in poor…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-01-19 Xiang Cheng , Boxun Liu , Xuanyu Liu , Xuesong Cai