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Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has delivered impressive gains in mathematical and multimodal reasoning and has become a standard post-training paradigm for contemporary language and vision-language models. However,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Hoang Phan , Xianjun Yang , Kevin Yao , Jingyu Zhang , Shengjie Bi , Xiaocheng Tang , Madian Khabsa , Lijuan Liu , Deren Lei

While recent advances in reinforcement learning have significantly enhanced reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs), these techniques remain underexplored in multi-modal LLMs for video captioning. This paper presents the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Desen Meng , Rui Huang , Zhilin Dai , Xinhao Li , Yifan Xu , Jun Zhang , Zhenpeng Huang , Meng Zhang , Lingshu Zhang , Yi Liu , Limin Wang

Image captioning is a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, where the model predicts a textual informative caption to a given input image. In this paper, we present a simple approach to address this task. We use CLIP encoding…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Ron Mokady , Amir Hertz , Amit H. Bermano

Video-and-language pre-training has shown promising results for learning generalizable representations. Most existing approaches usually model video and text in an implicit manner, without considering explicit structural representations of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-11-08 Guohao Li , Hu Yang , Feng He , Zhifan Feng , Yajuan Lyu , Hua Wu , Haifeng Wang

The objective of image captioning models is to bridge the gap between the visual and linguistic modalities by generating natural language descriptions that accurately reflect the content of input images. In recent years, researchers have…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-24 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Alessandro Nicolosi , Rita Cucchiara

Large-scale web-crawled datasets are fundamental for the success of pre-training vision-language models, such as CLIP. However, the inherent noise and potential irrelevance of web-crawled AltTexts pose challenges in achieving precise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-15 Zhengfeng Lai , Haotian Zhang , Bowen Zhang , Wentao Wu , Haoping Bai , Aleksei Timofeev , Xianzhi Du , Zhe Gan , Jiulong Shan , Chen-Nee Chuah , Yinfei Yang , Meng Cao

Image captioning models generally lack the capability to take into account user interest, and usually default to global descriptions that try to balance readability, informativeness, and information overload. On the other hand, VQA models…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-11-12 Edwin G. Ng , Bo Pang , Piyush Sharma , Radu Soricut

Recent years have witnessed the fast development of large-scale pre-training frameworks that can extract multi-modal representations in a unified form and achieve promising performances when transferred to downstream tasks. Nevertheless,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-18 Xuran Pan , Tianzhu Ye , Dongchen Han , Shiji Song , Gao Huang

Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) methods focus on tasks that demand reasoning with information extending beyond the explicit content depicted in the image. Early methods relied on explicit knowledge bases to provide this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Mohammad Mahdi Moradi , Sudhir Mudur

Image captioning, a fundamental task in vision-language understanding, seeks to generate accurate natural language descriptions for provided images. Current image captioning approaches heavily rely on high-quality image-caption pairs, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Chuanyang Jin

Integrating outside knowledge for reasoning in visio-linguistic tasks such as visual question answering (VQA) is an open problem. Given that pretrained language models have been shown to include world knowledge, we propose to use a unimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-14 Ander Salaberria , Gorka Azkune , Oier Lopez de Lacalle , Aitor Soroa , Eneko Agirre

Vision-Language Models (VLMs), such as CLIP, play a foundational role in various cross-modal applications. To fully leverage VLMs' potential in adapting to downstream tasks, context optimization methods like Prompt Tuning are essential.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-19 Enming Zhang , Bingke Zhu , Yingying Chen , Qinghai Miao , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Automatically generating a human-like description for a given image is a potential research in artificial intelligence, which has attracted a great of attention recently. Most of the existing attention methods explore the mapping…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Feicheng Huang , Zhixin Li , Haiyang Wei , Canlong Zhang , Huifang Ma

News Image Captioning aims to create captions from news articles and images, emphasizing the connection between textual context and visual elements. Recognizing the significance of human faces in news images and the face-name co-occurrence…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Tingyu Qu , Tinne Tuytelaars , Marie-Francine Moens

Image captioning models aim at connecting Vision and Language by providing natural language descriptions of input images. In the past few years, the task has been tackled by learning parametric models and proposing visual feature extraction…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara

Pretraining general-purpose visual features has become a crucial part of tackling many computer vision tasks. While one can learn such features on the extensively-annotated ImageNet dataset, recent approaches have looked at ways to allow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-05 Mert Bulent Sariyildiz , Julien Perez , Diane Larlus

For video captioning, "pre-training and fine-tuning" has become a de facto paradigm, where ImageNet Pre-training (INP) is usually used to encode the video content, then a task-oriented network is fine-tuned from scratch to cope with caption…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-23 Bang Yang , Tong Zhang , Yuexian Zou

The ability to quickly learn from a small quantity oftraining data widens the range of machine learning applications. In this paper, we propose a data-efficient image captioning model, VisualGPT, which leverages the linguistic knowledge…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-31 Jun Chen , Han Guo , Kai Yi , Boyang Li , Mohamed Elhoseiny

In this paper, we leverage the human perceiving process, that involves vision and language interaction, to generate a coherent paragraph description of untrimmed videos. We propose vision-language (VL) features consisting of two modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-08-09 Kashu Yamazaki , Sang Truong , Khoa Vo , Michael Kidd , Chase Rainwater , Khoa Luu , Ngan Le

Recently, vision-language models like CLIP have advanced the state of the art in a variety of multi-modal tasks including image captioning and caption evaluation. Many approaches leverage CLIP for cross-modal retrieval to condition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-11 Fabian Paischer , Markus Hofmarcher , Sepp Hochreiter , Thomas Adler