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This paper presents several novel findings on the explainability of vision reflection in large multimodal models (LMMs). First, we show that prompting an LMM to verify the prediction of a specialized vision model can improve recognition…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Guoyuan An , JaeYoon Kim , SungEui Yoon

This paper reveals that large language models (LLMs), despite being trained solely on textual data, are surprisingly strong encoders for purely visual tasks in the absence of language. Even more intriguingly, this can be achieved by a…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Ziqi Pang , Ziyang Xie , Yunze Man , Yu-Xiong Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated exceptional capabilities in high-level visual understanding. However, extending these models to fine-grained dense prediction tasks, such as semantic segmentation and depth…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Yi Li , Hongze Shen , Lexiang Tang , Xin Li , Xinpeng Ding , Yinsong Liu , Deqiang Jiang , Xing Sun , Xiaomeng Li

Existing Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) increasingly emphasize complex understanding of various visual elements, including multiple objects, text information, and spatial relations. Their development for comprehensive visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-26 Xiaotong Li , Fan Zhang , Haiwen Diao , Yueze Wang , Xinlong Wang , Ling-Yu Duan

Current large vision-language models (LVLMs) typically employ a connector module to link visual features with text embeddings of large language models (LLMs) and use end-to-end training to achieve multi-modal understanding in a unified…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Zixian Guo , Ming Liu , Qilong Wang , Zhilong Ji , Jinfeng Bai , Lei Zhang , Wangmeng Zuo

The visual projector serves as an essential bridge between the visual encoder and the Large Language Model (LLM) in a Multimodal LLM (MLLM). Typically, MLLMs adopt a simple MLP to preserve all visual contexts via one-to-one transformation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-29 Wentong Li , Yuqian Yuan , Jian Liu , Dongqi Tang , Song Wang , Jie Qin , Jianke Zhu , Lei Zhang

In the realm of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), vision-language connector plays a crucial role to link the pre-trained vision encoders with Large Language Models (LLMs). Despite its importance, the vision-language connector has…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Haogeng Liu , Quanzeng You , Xiaotian Han , Yongfei Liu , Huaibo Huang , Ran He , Hongxia Yang

Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) equip language models with visual capabilities by aligning vision encoders with language models. Existing methods to enhance the visual perception of MLLMs often involve designing more powerful vision encoders, which…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zhuokun Chen , Jinwu Hu , Zeshuai Deng , Yufeng Wang , Bohan Zhuang , Mingkui Tan

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have experienced rapid advancements, their visual encoders frequently remain a performance bottleneck. Conventional CLIP-based encoders struggle with dense spatial tasks due to the loss of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Peisen Zhao , Xiaopeng Zhang , Mingxing Xu , Ruoyu Sun , Zewei Du , Dunzheng Wang , Guanghao Zheng , Haohang Xu , Zhibo Zhang , Yuhang Zhang , Yi Ai , Lin Liu , Qi Tian

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently achieved remarkable success in visual-language understanding, demonstrating superior high-level semantic alignment within their vision encoders. An important question thus arises: Can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-11 Yikun Liu , Yuan Liu , Shangzhe Di , Haicheng Wang , Zhongyin Zhao , Le Tian , Xiao Zhou , Jie Zhou , Jiangchao Yao , Yanfeng Wang , Weidi Xie

Multi-modal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made significant strides in expanding the capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) through the incorporation of visual perception interfaces. Despite the emergence of exciting applications…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-11 Dongsheng Jiang , Yuchen Liu , Songlin Liu , Jin'e Zhao , Hao Zhang , Zhen Gao , Xiaopeng Zhang , Jin Li , Hongkai Xiong

Existing vision-language models (VLMs) mostly rely on vision encoders to extract visual features followed by large language models (LLMs) for visual-language tasks. However, the vision encoders set a strong inductive bias in abstracting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-30 Haiwen Diao , Yufeng Cui , Xiaotong Li , Yueze Wang , Huchuan Lu , Xinlong Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have endowed LLMs with the ability to perceive and understand multi-modal signals. However, most of the existing MLLMs mainly adopt vision encoders pretrained on coarsely aligned image-text pairs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Gongwei Chen , Leyang Shen , Rui Shao , Xiang Deng , Liqiang Nie

In this work, we introduce LLaDA-V, a purely diffusion-based Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) that integrates visual instruction tuning with masked diffusion models, representing a departure from the autoregressive paradigms dominant…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-05 Zebin You , Shen Nie , Xiaolu Zhang , Jun Hu , Jun Zhou , Zhiwu Lu , Ji-Rong Wen , Chongxuan Li

Large multimodal models (LMM) have recently shown encouraging progress with visual instruction tuning. In this note, we show that the fully-connected vision-language cross-modal connector in LLaVA is surprisingly powerful and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-17 Haotian Liu , Chunyuan Li , Yuheng Li , Yong Jae Lee

Humans possess the remarkable skill of Visual Perception, the ability to see and understand the seen, helping them make sense of the visual world and, in turn, reason. Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLM) have recently achieved…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-25 Jitesh Jain , Jianwei Yang , Humphrey Shi

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance across vision-language tasks, but suffer from significant computational overhead due to the quadratic growth of attention computations with the number of multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-21 Yingqi Fan , Anhao Zhao , Jinlan Fu , Junlong Tong , Hui Su , Yijie Pan , Wei Zhang , Xiaoyu Shen

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

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved impressive performance across various tasks such as image captioning and visual question answer(VQA); however, they often struggle to accurately interpret depth information inherent in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Hao Yang , Hongbo Zhang , Yanyan Zhao , Bing Qin

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) combine visual and textual representations to enable rich reasoning capabilities. However, the high computational cost of processing dense visual tokens remains a major bottleneck. A critical…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Mohamad Zamini , Diksha Shukla
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