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Answering questions about images often requires combining visual understanding with external knowledge. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) provide a natural framework for this setting, but they often struggle to identify the most…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Marco Morini , Sara Sarto , Marcella Cornia , Lorenzo Baraldi

Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) with a great ability of text and image understanding have received great attention. To achieve better reasoning with MLLMs, Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning has been widely explored, which further promotes MLLMs'…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zefeng Wang , Zhen Han , Shuo Chen , Fan Xue , Zifeng Ding , Xun Xiao , Volker Tresp , Philip Torr , Jindong Gu

Text-rich VQA, namely Visual Question Answering based on text recognition in the images, is a cross-modal task that requires both image comprehension and text recognition. In this work, we focus on investigating the advantages and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-14 Xuejing Liu , Wei Tang , Xinzhe Ni , Jinghui Lu , Rui Zhao , Zechao Li , Fei Tan

This paper proposes LayoutLLM, a more flexible document analysis method for understanding imaged documents. Visually Rich Document Understanding tasks, such as document image classification and information extraction, have gained…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-22 Masato Fujitake

Large Language Models (LLMs) still suffer from severe hallucinations and catastrophic forgetting during causal reasoning over massive, fragmented long contexts. Existing memory mechanisms typically treat retrieval as a static, single-step…

Multiagent Systems · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Haodong Lei , Junming Liu , Yirong Chen , Ding Wang , Hongsong Wang

Prevalent text-to-video retrieval systems mainly adopt embedding models for feature extraction and compute cosine similarities for ranking. However, this design presents two limitations. Low-quality text-video data pairs could compromise…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Prasanna Reddy Pulakurthi , Jiamian Wang , Majid Rabbani , Sohail Dianat , Raghuveer Rao , Zhiqiang Tao

While diffusion models have shown exceptional capabilities in aesthetic image synthesis, they often struggle with complex spatial understanding and reasoning. Existing approaches resort to Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to enhance…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-13 Wei Chen , Yancheng Long , Mingqiao Liu , Haojie Ding , Yankai Yang , Hongyang Wei , Yi-Fan Zhang , Bin Wen , Fan Yang , Tingting Gao , Han Li , Long Chen

We propose a method to fuse frozen text-only large language models (LLMs) with pre-trained image encoder and decoder models, by mapping between their embedding spaces. Our model demonstrates a wide suite of multimodal capabilities: image…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-16 Jing Yu Koh , Daniel Fried , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

Recent advancements in dialogue systems have highlighted the significance of integrating multimodal responses, which enable conveying ideas through diverse modalities rather than solely relying on text-based interactions. This enrichment…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Chang-Sheng Kao , Yun-Nung Chen

The advancement of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) requires precise local region-based reasoning that faithfully grounds the model's logic in actual visual evidence. However, existing datasets face limitations in scalability due to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Byeonggeuk Lim , Kyeonghyun Kim , JungMin Yun , YoungBin Kim

Comprehending text-rich visual content is paramount for the practical application of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), since text-rich scenarios are ubiquitous in the real world, which are characterized by the presence of extensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-26 Bohao Li , Yuying Ge , Yi Chen , Yixiao Ge , Ruimao Zhang , Ying Shan

Building models that comprehends videos and responds specific user instructions is a practical and challenging topic, as it requires mastery of both vision understanding and knowledge reasoning. Compared to language and image modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-30 Ji Qi , Kaixuan Ji , Jifan Yu , Duokang Wang , Bin Xu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li

With the bloom of Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) that incorporate LLMs with pre-trained vision models have recently demonstrated impressive performance across diverse vision-language tasks. However,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Ziyue Wang , Chi Chen , Yiqi Zhu , Fuwen Luo , Peng Li , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Maosong Sun , Yang Liu

Multimodal large language models have experienced rapid growth, and numerous different models have emerged. The interpretability of LVLMs remains an under-explored area. Especially when faced with more complex tasks such as chain-of-thought…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-16 Xiaofeng Zhang , Fanshuo Zeng , Yihao Quan , Zheng Hui , Jiawei Yao

In the era of Large Language Models (LLMs), tremendous strides have been made in the field of multimodal understanding. However, existing advanced algorithms are limited to effectively utilizing the immense representation capabilities and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-06 Hao Feng , Zijian Wang , Jingqun Tang , Jinghui Lu , Wengang Zhou , Houqiang Li , Can Huang

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are remarkable in vision-language tasks, such as image captioning and question answering, but lack the essential perception ability, i.e., object detection. In this work, we address this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-13 Yuhang Zang , Wei Li , Jun Han , Kaiyang Zhou , Chen Change Loy

Numerous applications of large language models (LLMs) rely on their ability to perform step-by-step reasoning. However, the reasoning behavior of LLMs remains poorly understood, posing challenges to research, development, and safety. To…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Zhanke Zhou , Zhaocheng Zhu , Xuan Li , Mikhail Galkin , Xiao Feng , Sanmi Koyejo , Jian Tang , Bo Han

Despite great progress, existing multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are prone to visual hallucination, greatly impeding their trustworthy applications. In this paper, we study this problem from the perspective of visual-spatial…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Qiong Wu , Xiangcong Yang , Yiyi Zhou , Chenxin Fang , Baiyang Song , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

Image-text matching has been a hot research topic bridging the vision and language areas. It remains challenging because the current representation of image usually lacks global semantic concepts as in its corresponding text caption. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-09-09 Kunpeng Li , Yulun Zhang , Kai Li , Yuanyuan Li , Yun Fu

Recently, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) encounter two key issues in multi-image contexts: (1) a lack of fine-grained perception across disparate images, and (2) a diminished capability to effectively reason over and synthesize…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Kuei-Chun Kao , Hsu Tzu-Yin , Yunqi Hong , Ruochen Wang , Cho-Jui Hsieh