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General-domain large multimodal models (LMMs) have achieved significant advances in various image-text tasks. However, their performance in the Intelligent Traffic Surveillance (ITS) domain remains limited due to the absence of dedicated…

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Although most current large multimodal models (LMMs) can already understand photos of natural scenes and portraits, their understanding of abstract images, e.g., charts, maps, or layouts, and visual reasoning capabilities remains quite…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Wenqi Zhang , Zhenglin Cheng , Yuanyu He , Mengna Wang , Yongliang Shen , Zeqi Tan , Guiyang Hou , Mingqian He , Yanna Ma , Weiming Lu , Yueting Zhuang

To acquire instruction-following capabilities, large language models (LLMs) undergo instruction tuning, where they are trained on instruction-response pairs using next-token prediction (NTP). Efforts to improve instruction tuning often…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Yuxin Xiao , Shujian Zhang , Wenxuan Zhou , Marzyeh Ghassemi , Sanqiang Zhao

In recent years, instruction-tuned Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have been successful at several tasks, including image captioning and visual question answering; yet leveraging these models remains an open question for robotics. Prior LMMs…

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) integrate visual and linguistic reasoning to address complex tasks such as image captioning and visual question answering. While MLLMs demonstrate remarkable versatility, MLLMs appears limited…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Wenke Huang , Jian Liang , Xianda Guo , Yiyang Fang , Guancheng Wan , Xuankun Rong , Chi Wen , Zekun Shi , Qingyun Li , Didi Zhu , Yanbiao Ma , Ke Liang , Bin Yang , He Li , Jiawei Shao , Mang Ye , Bo Du

Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities, yet their proficiency in understanding and reasoning over multiple images remains largely unexplored. While existing benchmarks have initiated the evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Anurag Das , Adrian Bulat , Alberto Baldrati , Ioannis Maniadis Metaxas , Bernt Schiele , Georgios Tzimiropoulos , Brais Martinez

The evolution from Large Language Models (LLMs) to Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has spurred research into extending In-Context Learning (ICL) to its multimodal counterpart. Existing such studies have primarily concentrated on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Yuchen Zeng , Wonjun Kang , Yicong Chen , Hyung Il Koo , Kangwook Lee

Visual Instruction Tuning (VisIT) data, commonly available as human-assistant conversations with images interleaved in the human turns, are currently the most widespread vehicle for aligning strong LLMs to understand visual inputs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Jacob Hansen , Wei Lin , Junmo Kang , Muhammad Jehanzeb Mirza , Hongyin Luo , Rogerio Feris , Alan Ritter , James Glass , Leonid Karlinsky

Large Language Models (LLMs) demonstrate strong performance in real-world applications, yet existing open-source instruction datasets often concentrate on narrow domains, such as mathematics or coding, limiting generalization and widening…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Jijie Li , Li Du , Hanyu Zhao , Bo-wen Zhang , Liangdong Wang , Boyan Gao , Guang Liu , Yonghua Lin

Recent advances in artificial intelligence have prompted the search for enhanced algorithms and hardware to support the deployment of machine learning at the edge. More specifically, in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT), vision…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Martin Lefebvre , David Bol

Advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have significantly enhanced instruction-following capabilities. However, most Instruction Fine-Tuning (IFT) datasets are predominantly in English, limiting model performance in other languages.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Sathish Reddy Indurthi , Wenxuan Zhou , Shamil Chollampatt , Ravi Agrawal , Kaiqiang Song , Lingxiao Zhao , Chenguang Zhu

Large language models (LLMs) are typically prompted to follow a single instruction per inference call. In this work, we analyze whether LLMs also hold the capability to handle multiple instructions simultaneously, denoted as Multi-Task…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Guijin Son , Sangwon Baek , Sangdae Nam , Ilgyun Jeong , Seungone Kim

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…

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…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Ziyu Liu , Tao Chu , Yuhang Zang , Xilin Wei , Xiaoyi Dong , Pan Zhang , Zijian Liang , Yuanjun Xiong , Yu Qiao , Dahua Lin , Jiaqi Wang

High-quality instructions and responses are essential for the zero-shot performance of large language models on interactive natural language tasks. For interactive vision-language tasks involving intricate visual scenes, a large quantity of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-09 Bo Li , Yuanhan Zhang , Liangyu Chen , Jinghao Wang , Fanyi Pu , Jingkang Yang , Chunyuan Li , Ziwei Liu

To enhance the performance of large language models (LLMs) in biomedical natural language processing (BioNLP) by introducing a domain-specific instruction dataset and examining its impact when combined with multi-task learning principles.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-10 Hieu Tran , Zhichao Yang , Zonghai Yao , Hong Yu

Instruction finetuning is a popular paradigm to align large language models (LLM) with human intent. Despite its popularity, this idea is less explored in improving LLMs to align existing foundation models with scientific disciplines,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Sameera Horawalavithana , Sai Munikoti , Ian Stewart , Henry Kvinge , Karl Pazdernik

Instruction tuning, a new learning paradigm that fine-tunes pre-trained language models on tasks specified through instructions, has shown promising zero-shot performance on various natural language processing tasks. However, it has yet to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-06-13 Zhiyang Xu , Ying Shen , Lifu Huang

Recent work has shown that fine-tuning large pre-trained language models on a collection of tasks described via instructions, a.k.a. instruction-tuning, improves their zero and few-shot generalization to unseen tasks. However, there is a…

This study explores the capabilities of multimodal large language models (LLMs) in handling challenging multistep tasks that integrate language and vision, focusing on model steerability, composability, and the application of long-term…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-20 David Noever , Samantha Elizabeth Miller Noever