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In-context learning (ICL) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to learn tasks from demonstration examples without parameter updates. Although it has been extensively studied in LLMs, its effectiveness in Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Gabriel O. dos Santos , Esther Colombini , Sandra Avila

Although In-Context Learning (ICL) brings remarkable performance gains to Large Language Models (LLMs), the improvements remain lower than fine-tuning on downstream tasks. This paper introduces Multi-Modal In-Context Tuning (MMICT), a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Tao Chen , Enwei Zhang , Yuting Gao , Ke Li , Xing Sun , Yan Zhang , Hui Li , Rongrong Ji

Visual instruction tuning is crucial for enhancing the zero-shot generalization capability of Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs). In this paper, we aim to investigate a fundamental question: ''what makes for good visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Yifan Du , Hangyu Guo , Kun Zhou , Wayne Xin Zhao , Jinpeng Wang , Chuyuan Wang , Mingchen Cai , Ruihua Song , Ji-Rong Wen

Finetuning large language models with a variety of instruction-response pairs has enhanced their capability to understand and follow instructions. Current instruction tuning primarily relies on teacher models or human intervention to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Ming Li , Pei Chen , Chenguang Wang , Hongyu Zhao , Yijun Liang , Yupeng Hou , Fuxiao Liu , Tianyi Zhou

We present a vision and language model named MultiModal-GPT to conduct multi-round dialogue with humans. MultiModal-GPT can follow various instructions from humans, such as generating a detailed caption, counting the number of interested…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-14 Tao Gong , Chengqi Lyu , Shilong Zhang , Yudong Wang , Miao Zheng , Qian Zhao , Kuikun Liu , Wenwei Zhang , Ping Luo , Kai Chen

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) exhibit remarkable multi-tasking ability by learning mixed instruction datasets. However, novel tasks would be encountered sequentially in dynamic world, which urges for equipping LMMs with multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Fanhu Zeng , Fei Zhu , Haiyang Guo , Xu-Yao Zhang , Cheng-Lin Liu

While Video Large Language Models (Video-LLMs) have shown significant potential in multimodal understanding and reasoning tasks, how to efficiently select the most informative frames from videos remains a critical challenge. Existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Shihao Wang , Guo Chen , De-an Huang , Zhiqi Li , Minghan Li , Guilin Liu , Jose M. Alvarez , Lei Zhang , Zhiding Yu

In this work, we propose Visual-Predictive Instruction Tuning (VPiT) - a simple and effective extension to visual instruction tuning that enables a pretrained LLM to quickly morph into an unified autoregressive model capable of generating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Shengbang Tong , David Fan , Jiachen Zhu , Yunyang Xiong , Xinlei Chen , Koustuv Sinha , Michael Rabbat , Yann LeCun , Saining Xie , Zhuang Liu

Visual Instruction Tuning represents a novel learning paradigm involving the fine-tuning of pre-trained language models using task-specific instructions. This paradigm shows promising zero-shot results in various natural language processing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Hongxia Xie , Chu-Jun Peng , Yu-Wen Tseng , Hung-Jen Chen , Chan-Feng Hsu , Hong-Han Shuai , Wen-Huang Cheng

Transformer-based language models, though not explicitly trained to mimic brain recordings, have demonstrated surprising alignment with brain activity. Progress in these models-through increased size, instruction-tuning, and…

To operate effectively in the real world, robots should integrate multimodal reasoning with precise action generation. However, existing vision-language-action (VLA) models often sacrifice one for the other, narrow their abilities to…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Shuai Yang , Hao Li , Bin Wang , Yilun Chen , Yang Tian , Tai Wang , Hanqing Wang , Feng Zhao , Yiyi Liao , Jiangmiao Pang

Despite the promising progress in multi-modal tasks, current large multi-modal models (LMMs) are prone to hallucinating inconsistent descriptions with respect to the associated image and human instructions. This paper addresses this issue…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Fuxiao Liu , Kevin Lin , Linjie Li , Jianfeng Wang , Yaser Yacoob , Lijuan Wang

Traditional computer vision generally solves each single task independently by a dedicated model with the task instruction implicitly designed in the model architecture, arising two limitations: (1) it leads to task-specific models, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-29 Jiaxing Huang , Jingyi Zhang , Kai Jiang , Han Qiu , Shijian Lu

This paper presents VisLingInstruct, a novel approach to advancing Multi-Modal Language Models (MMLMs) in zero-shot learning. Current MMLMs show impressive zero-shot abilities in multi-modal tasks, but their performance depends heavily on…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Dongsheng Zhu , Xunzhu Tang , Weidong Han , Jinghui Lu , Yukun Zhao , Guoliang Xing , Junfeng Wang , Dawei Yin

We propose L2T, an advancement of visual instruction tuning (VIT). While VIT equips Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) with promising multimodal capabilities, the current design choices for VIT often result in overfitting and shortcut learning,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Zhihan Zhou , Feng Hong , Jiaan Luo , Jiangchao Yao , Dongsheng Li , Bo Han , Ya Zhang , Yanfeng Wang

Large-scale pre-training and instruction tuning have been successful at creating general-purpose language models with broad competence. However, building general-purpose vision-language models is challenging due to the rich input…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Wenliang Dai , Junnan Li , Dongxu Li , Anthony Meng Huat Tiong , Junqi Zhao , Weisheng Wang , Boyang Li , Pascale Fung , Steven Hoi

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate remarkable performance across a wide range of domains, with increasing emphasis on enhancing their zero-shot generalization capabilities for unseen tasks across various modalities.…

Vision-language models (VLMs) have exhibited remarkable generalization capabilities, and prompt learning for VLMs has attracted great attention for the ability to adapt pre-trained VLMs to specific downstream tasks. However, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-15 Song-Lin Lv , Yu-Yang Chen , Zhi Zhou , Ming Yang , Lan-Zhe Guo

In-context learning (ICL) involves reasoning from given contextual examples. As more modalities comes, this procedure is becoming more challenging as the interleaved input modalities convolutes the understanding process. This is exemplified…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Yixin Chen , Shuai Zhang , Boran Han , Jiaya Jia

Generating natural and meaningful responses to communicate with multi-modal human inputs is a fundamental capability of Large Vision-Language Models(LVLMs). While current open-source LVLMs demonstrate promising performance in simplified…

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