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The rise of powerful multimodal LLMs has enhanced the viability of building web agents which can, with increasing levels of autonomy, assist users to retrieve information and complete tasks on various human-computer interfaces. It is hence…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Maria Wang , Srinivas Sunkara , Gilles Baechler , Jason Lin , Yun Zhu , Fedir Zubach , Lei Shu , Jindong Chen

Recently, there has been an increasing interest in building question answering (QA) models that reason across multiple modalities, such as text and images. However, QA using images is often limited to just picking the answer from a…

In this paper, we present our methods for unrealiable information identification task at VLSP 2020 ReINTEL Challenge. The task is to classify a piece of information into reliable or unreliable category. We propose a novel multimodal…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-12-21 Nguyen Manh Duc Tuan , Pham Quang Nhat Minh

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) in real-world applications require access to external knowledge sources and must remain responsive to the dynamic and ever-changing real-world information in order to address information-seeking and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Kartik Narayan , Yang Xu , Tian Cao , Kavya Nerella , Vishal M. Patel , Navid Shiee , Peter Grasch , Chao Jia , Yinfei Yang , Zhe Gan

Multimodal information extraction (MIE) aims to extract structured information from unstructured multimedia content. Due to the diversity of tasks and settings, most current MIE models are task-specific and data-intensive, which limits…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-05 Yuxuan Sun , Kai Zhang , Yu Su

Cross-modal retrieval has drawn much attention in both computer vision and natural language processing domains. With the development of convolutional and recurrent neural networks, the bottleneck of retrieval across image-text modalities is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-14 Jianan Chen , Lu Zhang , Qiong Wang , Cong Bai , Kidiyo Kpalma

We present Omni-Embed-Nemotron, a unified multimodal retrieval embedding model developed to handle the increasing complexity of real-world information needs. While Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) has significantly advanced language…

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Existing works in image retrieval often consider retrieving images with one or two query inputs, which do not generalize to multiple queries. In this work, we investigate a more challenging scenario for composing multiple multimodal queries…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-04-13 Andrei Neculai , Yanbei Chen , Zeynep Akata

Accurate and efficient product classification is significant for E-commerce applications, as it enables various downstream tasks such as recommendation, retrieval, and pricing. Items often contain textual and visual information, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Varnith Chordia , Vijay Kumar BG

The ability to understand and answer questions over documents can be useful in many business and practical applications. However, documents often contain lengthy and diverse multimodal contents such as texts, figures, and tables, which are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Yew Ken Chia , Liying Cheng , Hou Pong Chan , Chaoqun Liu , Maojia Song , Sharifah Mahani Aljunied , Soujanya Poria , Lidong Bing

Contrastively-trained Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, have become the standard approach for learning discriminative vision-language representations. However, these models often exhibit shallow language understanding,…

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Query understanding (QU) aims to accurately infer user intent to improve document retrieval. It plays a vital role in modern search engines. While large language models (LLMs) have made notable progress in this area, their effectiveness has…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yunfei Zhong , Jun Yang , Yixing Fan , Lixin Su , Maarten de Rijke , Ruqing Zhang , Xueqi Cheng

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have achieved high performance in vision-language tasks involving single image but they struggle when presented with a collection of multiple images (Multiple Image Question Answering scenario). These tasks,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-16 Aaryan Sharma , Shivansh Gupta , Samar Agarwal , Vishak Prasad C. , Ganesh Ramakrishnan

The focus of this survey is on the analysis of two modalities of multimodal deep learning: image and text. Unlike classic reviews of deep learning where monomodal image classifiers such as VGG, ResNet and Inception module are central…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Wei Chen , Weiping Wang , Li Liu , Michael S. Lew

Recent progress in VLMs has demonstrated impressive capabilities across a variety of tasks in the natural image domain. Motivated by these advancements, the remote sensing community has begun to adopt VLMs for remote sensing vision-language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Congcong Wen , Yiting Lin , Xiaokang Qu , Nan Li , Yong Liao , Xiang Li , Hui Lin

Semantic retrieval, which retrieves semantically matched items given a textual query, has been an essential component to enhance system effectiveness in e-commerce search. In this paper, we study the multimodal retrieval problem, where the…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-06-26 Zhigong Zhou , Ning Ding , Xiaochuan Fan , Yue Shang , Yiming Qiu , Jingwei Zhuo , Zhiwei Ge , Songlin Wang , Lin Liu , Sulong Xu , Han Zhang

Composed image retrieval which combines a reference image and a text modifier to identify the desired target image is a challenging task, and requires the model to comprehend both vision and language modalities and their interactions.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Shu Zhao , Huijuan Xu

Outside-knowledge visual question answering is a challenging task that requires both the acquisition and the use of open-ended real-world knowledge. Some existing solutions draw external knowledge into the cross-modality space which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Qingyi Si , Yuchen Mo , Zheng Lin , Huishan Ji , Weiping Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models demonstrate strong performance on natural image understanding, yet exhibit limited capability in interpreting scientific images, including but not limited to schematic diagrams, experimental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Haoyi Tao , Chaozheng Huang , Nan Wang , Han Lyu , Linfeng Zhang , Guolin Ke , Xi Fang

Knowledge-based Vision Question Answering (KB-VQA) systems address complex visual-grounded questions with knowledge retrieved from external knowledge bases. The tasks of knowledge retrieval and answer generation tasks both necessitate…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Jiaqi Deng , Kaize Shi , Zonghan Wu , Huan Huo , Dingxian Wang , Guandong Xu