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Multi-modal foundation models like OpenFlamingo, LLaVA, and GPT-4 are increasingly used for various real-world tasks. Prior work has shown that these models are highly vulnerable to adversarial attacks on the vision modality. These attacks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-06 Christian Schlarmann , Naman Deep Singh , Francesco Croce , Matthias Hein

Currently, inspired by the success of vision-language models (VLMs), an increasing number of researchers are focusing on improving VLMs and have achieved promising results. However, most existing methods concentrate on optimizing the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-23 Dawei Yan , Pengcheng Li , Yang Li , Hao Chen , Qingguo Chen , Weihua Luo , Wei Dong , Qingsen Yan , Haokui Zhang , Chunhua Shen

Remarkable progress in 2D Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has spurred interest in extending them to 3D settings for tasks like 3D Question Answering, Dense Captioning, and Visual Grounding. Unlike 2D VLMs that typically process images through…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Haoyuan Li , Yanpeng Zhou , Yufei Gao , Tao Tang , Jianhua Han , Yujie Yuan , Dave Zhenyu Chen , Jiawang Bian , Hang Xu , Xiaodan Liang

This paper presents a unified Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) model. The model is unified in that (1) it can be fine-tuned for either vision-language generation (e.g., image captioning) or understanding (e.g., visual question answering)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-12-05 Luowei Zhou , Hamid Palangi , Lei Zhang , Houdong Hu , Jason J. Corso , Jianfeng Gao

Medical vision-language models (VLMs) combine computer vision (CV) and natural language processing (NLP) to analyze visual and textual medical data. Our paper reviews recent advancements in developing VLMs specialized for healthcare,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Iryna Hartsock , Ghulam Rasool

Following the recent popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs), several attempts have been made to extend them to the visual domain. From having a visual assistant that could guide us through unfamiliar environments to generative models…

How well do text-only large language models (LLMs) align with the visual world? We present a systematic evaluation of this question by incorporating frozen representations of various language models into a discriminative vision-language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-19 Jona Ruthardt , Gertjan J. Burghouts , Serge Belongie , Yuki M. Asano

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

Large vision--language models (VLMs) often use a frozen vision backbone, whose image features are mapped into a large language model through a lightweight connector. While transformer-based encoders are the standard visual backbone, we ask…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-20 Shang-Jui Ray Kuo , Paola Cascante-Bonilla

The robustness of Vision Language Models (VLMs) is commonly assessed through output-level invariance, implicitly assuming that stable predictions reflect stable multimodal processing. In this work, we argue that this assumption is…

Pre-trained visual language models (VLM) have shown excellent performance in image caption tasks. However, it sometimes shows insufficient reasoning ability. In contrast, large language models (LLMs) emerge with powerful reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-23 Yueting Yang , Xintong Zhang , Wenjuan Han

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have facilitated the development of Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs). Despite their impressive capabilities, MLLMs often suffer from over-reliance on unimodal biases (e.g., language bias and vision…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Meiqi Chen , Yixin Cao , Yan Zhang , Chaochao Lu

In this article, we investigate vision-language models (VLM) as reasoners. The ability to form abstractions underlies mathematical reasoning, problem-solving, and other Math AI tasks. Several formalisms have been given to these underlying…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Denisa Roberts , Lucas Roberts

We present a unified Vision-Language pretrained Model (VLMo) that jointly learns a dual encoder and a fusion encoder with a modular Transformer network. Specifically, we introduce Mixture-of-Modality-Experts (MoME) Transformer, where each…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-05-30 Hangbo Bao , Wenhui Wang , Li Dong , Qiang Liu , Owais Khan Mohammed , Kriti Aggarwal , Subhojit Som , Furu Wei

Vision-language models (VLMs) benefit from multiple vision encoders, but naively stacking them yields diminishing returns while multiplying inference costs. We propose SCOPE, a Mixture-of-Encoders (MoEnc) framework that dynamically selects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Tianyu Zhang , Suyuchen Wang , Chao Wang , Juan Rodriguez , Ahmed Masry , Xiangru Jian , Yoshua Bengio , Perouz Taslakian

Vision language models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success in broad visual understanding, yet they remain challenged by object-centric reasoning on rare objects due to the scarcity of such instances in pretraining data. While prior…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Xin Hu , Haomiao Ni , Yunbei Zhang , Jihun Hamm , Zechen Li , Zhengming Ding

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) trained with visual instruction tuning have achieved strong performance across diverse tasks, yet they remain limited in vision-centric tasks such as object counting or spatial reasoning. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Heeji Yoon , Jaewoo Jung , Junwan Kim , Hyungyu Choi , Heeseong Shin , Sangbeom Lim , Honggyu An , Chaehyun Kim , Jisang Han , Donghyun Kim , Chanho Eom , Sunghwan Hong , Seungryong Kim

Vision-language models (VLMs) offer a promising paradigm for image classification by comparing the similarity between images and class embeddings. A critical challenge lies in crafting precise textual representations for class names. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-20 Songhao Han , Le Zhuo , Yue Liao , Si Liu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) excel in diverse cross-modal tasks. However, object hallucination, where models produce plausible but inaccurate object descriptions, remains a significant challenge. In contrast to previous work…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yiyang Huang , Liang Shi , Yitian Zhang , Yi Xu , Yun Fu

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly adapted through domain-specific fine-tuning, yet it remains unclear whether this improves reasoning beyond superficial visual cues, particularly in high-stakes domains like medicine. We…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Oliver McLaughlin , Daniel Shubin , Carsten Eickhoff , Ritambhara Singh , William Rudman , Michal Golovanevsky