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Visual question answering (VQA) is challenging because it requires a simultaneous understanding of both visual content of images and textual content of questions. To support the VQA task, we need to find good solutions for the following…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-17 Zhou Yu , Jun Yu , Chenchao Xiang , Jianping Fan , Dacheng Tao

Despite significant advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) for understanding complex human intentions through cross-modal interactions, capturing intricate image details remains challenging. Previous methods integrating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-16 Yue Cao , Yangzhou Liu , Zhe Chen , Guangchen Shi , Wenhai Wang , Danhuai Zhao , Tong Lu

Large Language Models (LLMs) often suffer from hallucinations, which Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and GraphRAG mitigate by incorporating external knowledge and knowledge graphs (KGs). However, GraphRAG remains text-centric due to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Xueyao Wan , Hang Yu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) increasingly rely on retrieval to answer knowledge-intensive multimodal questions. Existing benchmarks overlook conflicts between visual and textual evidence and the importance of generating deflections…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Nicholas Moratelli , Christopher Davis , Leonardo F. R. Ribeiro , Bill Byrne , Gonzalo Iglesias

This survey and application guide to multimodal large language models(MLLMs) explores the rapidly developing field of MLLMs, examining their architectures, applications, and impact on AI and Generative Models. Starting with foundational…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-02 Chia Xin Liang , Pu Tian , Caitlyn Heqi Yin , Yao Yua , Wei An-Hou , Li Ming , Xinyuan Song , Tianyang Wang , Ziqian Bi , Ming Liu

Multimodal retrieval augmented generation (RAG) plays a crucial role in domains such as knowledge-based visual question answering (KB-VQA), where external knowledge is needed to answer a question. However, existing multimodal LLMs (MLLMs)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Xin Su , Man Luo , Kris W Pan , Tien Pei Chou , Vasudev Lal , Phillip Howard

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) perform well in single-image visual grounding but struggle with real-world tasks that demand cross-image reasoning and multi-modal instructions. To address this, we adopt a reinforcement learning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Bob Zhang , Haoran Li , Tao Zhang , Jianan Li , Cilin Yan , Xikai Liu , Jiayin Cai , Yanbin Hao

Integration of diverse data will be a pivotal step towards improving scientific explorations in many disciplines. This work establishes a vision-language model (VLM) that encodes videos with text input in order to classify various behaviors…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-23 Paimon Goulart , Jordan Steinhauser , Kylene Shuler , Edward Korzus , Jia Chen , Evangelos E. Papalexakis

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable proficiency in multimodal tasks. Despite their impressive performance, MLLMs suffer from the modality imbalance issue, where visual information is often underutilized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Hengzhuang Li , Xinsong Zhang , Qiming Peng , Bin Luo , Han Hu , Dengyang Jiang , Han-Jia Ye , Teng Zhang , Hai Jin

Despite significant advancements, current large language models (LLMs) and vision-language models (LVLMs) continue to struggle with complex, multi-step, cross-modal common sense reasoning tasks, often exhibiting a lack of "deliberative…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Wenjie Luo , Ruocheng Li , Shanshan Zhu , Julian Perry

Within the multimodal field, large vision-language models (LVLMs) have made significant progress due to their strong perception and reasoning capabilities in the visual and language systems. However, LVLMs are still plagued by the two…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-14 Sirui Cheng , Siyu Zhang , Jiayi Wu , Muchen Lan

Recent studies have utilized visual large language models (VLMs) to answer not only "Is this face a forgery?" but also "Why is the face a forgery?" These studies introduced forgery-related attributes, such as forgery location and type, to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-17 Tao Chen , Jingyi Zhang , Decheng Liu , Chunlei Peng

State-of-the-art retrieval models typically address a straightforward search scenario, in which retrieval tasks are fixed (e.g., finding a passage to answer a specific question) and only a single modality is supported for both queries and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Sheng-Chieh Lin , Chankyu Lee , Mohammad Shoeybi , Jimmy Lin , Bryan Catanzaro , Wei Ping

Given the remarkable success that large visual language models (LVLMs) have achieved in image perception tasks, the endeavor to make LVLMs perceive the world like humans is drawing increasing attention. Current multi-modal benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Siwei Wu , Kang Zhu , Yu Bai , Yiming Liang , Yizhi Li , Haoning Wu , J. H. Liu , Ruibo Liu , Xingwei Qu , Xuxin Cheng , Ge Zhang , Wenhao Huang , Chenghua Lin

Acquiring high-quality knowledge is a central focus in Knowledge-Based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA). Recent methods use large language models (LLMs) as knowledge engines for answering. These methods generally employ image captions as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Yan Zhang , Jiaqing Lin , Miao Zhang , Kui Xiao , Xiaoju Hou , Yue Zhao , Zhifei Li

The rapid advancement of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) for 2D images and videos has motivated extending these models to understand 3D scenes, aiming for human-like visual-spatial intelligence. Nevertheless, achieving deep spatial…

Recently, Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in multimodal tasks, and multimodal instruction data serves as the foundation for enhancing VLM capabilities. Despite the availability of several open-source…

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have recently shown strong performance on Optical Character Recognition (OCR) tasks, demonstrating their promising capability in document literacy. However, their effectiveness in real-world applications…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Zhipeng Xu , Junhao Ji , Zulong Chen , Zhenghao Liu , Qing Liu , Chunyi Peng , Zubao Qin , Ze Xu , Jianqiang Wan , Jun Tang , Zhibo Yang , Shuai Bai , Dayiheng Liu

The massive generation of multimodal fake news involving both text and images exhibits substantial distribution discrepancies, prompting the need for generalized detectors. However, the insulated nature of training restricts the capability…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-08-07 Xuannan Liu , Peipei Li , Huaibo Huang , Zekun Li , Xing Cui , Jiahao Liang , Lixiong Qin , Weihong Deng , Zhaofeng He

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown significant potential in medical image analysis. However, their capabilities in interpreting fundus images, a critical skill for ophthalmology, remain under-evaluated. Existing benchmarks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Qijie Wei , Kaiheng Qian , Xirong Li