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Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have rapidly advanced by leveraging powerful pre-trained Large Language Models (LLMs) as core reasoning backbones. As new and more capable LLMs emerge with improved reasoning, instruction-following, and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Sameera Horawalavithana , Lauren Phillips , Ian Stewart , Sai Munikoti , Karl Pazdernik

Current RF machine-learning pipelines rely on task-specific deep networks for modulation classification and related tasks, but these models require custom architectures and labeled datasets for each problem, generalize poorly across channel…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2026-02-17 Hang Zou , Bohao Wang , Yu Tian , Lina Bariah , Chongwen Huang , Samson Lasaulce , Mérouane Debbah

Although large visual-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in multimodal tasks, errors may occasionally arise due to biases during the reasoning process. Recently, reward models (RMs) have become increasingly pivotal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiacheng Ruan , Wenzhen Yuan , Xian Gao , Ye Guo , Daoxin Zhang , Zhe Xu , Yao Hu , Ting Liu , Yuzhuo Fu

Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) deliver exceptional performance but require significant computational resources, limiting their deployment on mobile and edge devices. Smaller VLMs typically mirror design choices of larger models, such…

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated their broad effectiveness thanks to extensive training in aligning visual instructions to responses. However, such training of conclusive alignment leads models to ignore essential visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-04 Ji Qi , Ming Ding , Weihan Wang , Yushi Bai , Qingsong Lv , Wenyi Hong , Bin Xu , Lei Hou , Juanzi Li , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang

Medical image analysis is essential in modern healthcare. Deep learning has redirected research focus toward complex medical multimodal tasks, including report generation and visual question answering. Traditional task-specific models often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-15 Yiming Shi , Shaoshuai Yang , Xun Zhu , Haoyu Wang , Xiangling Fu , Miao Li , Ji Wu

Real-world vision-language applications demand varying levels of perceptual granularity. However, most existing visual large language models (VLLMs), such as LLaVA, pre-assume a fixed resolution for downstream tasks, which leads to subpar…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Weiqing Luo , Zhen Tan , Yifan Li , Xinyu Zhao , Kwonjoon Lee , Behzad Dariush , Tianlong Chen

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate impressive capabilities across multimodal tasks, yet exhibit systematic spatial reasoning failures, achieving only 49% (CLIP) to 54% (BLIP-2) accuracy on basic directional relationships. For safe…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Muhammad Imran , Yugyung Lee

Language models (LMs) and their extension, vision-language models (VLMs), have achieved remarkable performance across various tasks. However, they still struggle with complex reasoning tasks that require multimodal or multilingual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Wenyi Wu , Zixuan Song , Kun Zhou , Yifei Shao , Zhiting Hu , Biwei Huang

We introduce Xmodel-VLM, a cutting-edge multimodal vision language model. It is designed for efficient deployment on consumer GPU servers. Our work directly confronts a pivotal industry issue by grappling with the prohibitive service costs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Wanting Xu , Yang Liu , Langping He , Xucheng Huang , Ling Jiang

Recently, the remarkable success of large language models (LLMs) has achieved a profound impact on the field of artificial intelligence. Numerous advanced works based on LLMs have been proposed and applied in various scenarios. Among them,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Xizhe Xue , Yang Zhou , Dawei Yan , Lijie Tao , Junjie Li , Ying Li , Haokui Zhang , Rong Xiao

Comparing vision language models on videos is particularly complex, as the performances is jointly determined by the model's visual representation capacity and the frame-sampling strategy used to construct the input. Current video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Marija Brkic , Anas Filali Razzouki , Yannis Tevissen , Khalil Guetari , Mounim A. El Yacoubi

Visual reasoning is a core component of human intelligence and a critical capability for advanced multimodal models. Yet current reasoning evaluations of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often rely on text descriptions and allow…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-22 Weiye Xu , Jiahao Wang , Weiyun Wang , Zhe Chen , Wengang Zhou , Aijun Yang , Lewei Lu , Houqiang Li , Xiaohua Wang , Xizhou Zhu , Wenhai Wang , Jifeng Dai , Jinguo Zhu

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have made significant strides in the field of video understanding in recent times. Nevertheless, existing video benchmarks predominantly rely on text prompts for evaluation, which often require complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yiming Zhao , Yu Zeng , Yukun Qi , YaoYang Liu , Xikun Bao , Lin Chen , Zehui Chen , Qing Miao , Chenxi Liu , Jie Zhao , Feng Zhao

Vision Language Models (VLMs) achieved rapid progress in the recent years. However, despite their growth, VLMs development is heavily grounded on English, leading to two main limitations: (i) the lack of multilingual and multimodal datasets…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Daniela Baiamonte , Elena Fano , Matteo Gabburo , Stefano Simonazzi , Leonardo Rigutini , Andrea Zugarini

Spatio-physical reasoning, a foundation capability for understanding the real physics world, is a critical step towards building robust world models. While recent vision language models (VLMs) have shown remarkable progress in specialized…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-15 Tiancheng Han , Yunfei Gao , Yong Li , Wuzhou Yu , Qiaosheng Zhang , Wenqi Shao

We have witnessed promising progress led by large language models (LLMs) and further vision language models (VLMs) in handling various queries as a general-purpose assistant. VLMs, as a bridge to connect the visual world and language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 YuK-Kwan Wong , Tuan-An To , Jipeng Zhang , Ziqiang Zheng , Sai-Kit Yeung

Large Language Models (LLMs) and Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance across a wide range of tasks, yet they remain vulnerable to carefully crafted perturbations. In this study, we seek to pinpoint the sources…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Runpeng Dai , Run Yang , Fan Zhou , Hongtu Zhu

Despite significant advances in vision-language models (VLMs), most existing work follows an English-centric design process, limiting their effectiveness in multilingual settings. In this work, we provide a comprehensive empirical study…

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable success, yet their significant computational demands hinder practical deployment. While efforts to improve LVLM efficiency are growing, existing methods lack comprehensive…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Zekun Wang , Minghua Ma , Zexin Wang , Rongchuan Mu , Liping Shan , Ming Liu , Bing Qin