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Multimodal language models possess a remarkable ability to handle an open-vocabulary's worth of objects. Yet the best models still suffer from hallucinations when reasoning about scenes in the real world, revealing a gap between their…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Candace Ross , Florian Bordes , Adina Williams , Polina Kirichenko , Mark Ibrahim

Recent masked image modeling (MIM) has received much attention in self-supervised learning (SSL), which requires the target model to recover the masked part of the input image. Although MIM-based pre-training methods achieve new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-21 Qiang Zhou , Chaohui Yu , Hao Luo , Zhibin Wang , Hao Li

Motivated by in-context learning (ICL) capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), multimodal LLMs with additional visual modality are also exhibited with similar ICL abilities when multiple image-text pairs are provided as…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Nan Xu , Fei Wang , Sheng Zhang , Hoifung Poon , Muhao Chen

This paper investigates how to better leverage large-scale pre-trained uni-modal models to further enhance discriminative multi-modal learning. Even when fine-tuned with only uni-modal data, these models can outperform previous multi-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Chenzhuang Du , Yue Zhao , Chonghua Liao , Jiacheng You , Jie Fu , Hang Zhao

We present a new pre-training strategy called M$^{3}$3D ($\underline{M}$ulti-$\underline{M}$odal $\underline{M}$asked $\underline{3D}$) built based on Multi-modal masked autoencoders that can leverage 3D priors and learned cross-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Muhammad Abdullah Jamal , Omid Mohareri

Language models have recently advanced into the realm of reasoning, yet it is through multimodal reasoning that we can fully unlock the potential to achieve more comprehensive, human-like cognitive capabilities. This survey provides a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Zhiyu Lin , Yifei Gao , Xian Zhao , Yunfan Yang , Jitao Sang

We introduce WorldSense, the first benchmark to assess the multi-modal video understanding, that simultaneously encompasses visual, audio, and text inputs. In contrast to existing benchmarks, our WorldSense has several features:…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Jack Hong , Shilin Yan , Jiayin Cai , Xiaolong Jiang , Yao Hu , Weidi Xie

Multi-modal learning has achieved remarkable success by integrating information from various modalities, achieving superior performance in tasks like recognition and retrieval compared to uni-modal approaches. However, real-world scenarios…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Xiaohao Liu , Xiaobo Xia , Zhuo Huang , See-Kiong Ng , Tat-Seng Chua

In different multimodal scenarios, it needs to integrate and utilize information across modalities in a specific way based on the demands of the task. Different integration ways between modalities are referred to as "multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yu Miao , Zequn Yang , Yake Wei , Ziheng Chen , Haotian Ni , Haodong Duan , Kai Chen , Di Hu

The natural world is abundant with concepts expressed via visual, acoustic, tactile, and linguistic modalities. Much of the existing progress in multimodal learning, however, focuses primarily on problems where the same set of modalities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-12-08 Paul Pu Liang , Peter Wu , Liu Ziyin , Louis-Philippe Morency , Ruslan Salakhutdinov

In this paper, we introduce Modality-Inconsistent Continual Learning (MICL), a new continual learning scenario for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) that involves tasks with inconsistent modalities (image, audio, or video) and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Weiguo Pian , Shijian Deng , Shentong Mo , Mingrui Liu , Yunhui Guo , Yapeng Tian

The ability to sequence unordered events is an essential skill to comprehend and reason about real world task procedures, which often requires thorough understanding of temporal common sense and multimodal information, as these procedures…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-22 Te-Lin Wu , Alex Spangher , Pegah Alipoormolabashi , Marjorie Freedman , Ralph Weischedel , Nanyun Peng

Standard Large Language Model (LLM) pre-training typically treats corpora as flattened token sequences, often overlooking the real-world context that humans naturally rely on to contextualize information. To bridge this gap, we introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Yudong Li , Jiawei Cai , Linlin Shen

Recent years have witnessed a big convergence of language, vision, and multi-modal pretraining. In this work, we present mPLUG-2, a new unified paradigm with modularized design for multi-modal pretraining, which can benefit from modality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-12 Haiyang Xu , Qinghao Ye , Ming Yan , Yaya Shi , Jiabo Ye , Yuanhong Xu , Chenliang Li , Bin Bi , Qi Qian , Wei Wang , Guohai Xu , Ji Zhang , Songfang Huang , Fei Huang , Jingren Zhou

Recent advancements in language multimodal models (LMMs) for video have demonstrated their potential for understanding video content, yet the task of comprehending multi-discipline lectures remains largely unexplored. We introduce…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-06 Enxin Song , Wenhao Chai , Weili Xu , Jianwen Xie , Yuxuan Liu , Gaoang Wang

Learning computer vision models from (and for) movies has a long-standing history. While great progress has been attained, there is still a need for a pretrained multimodal model that can perform well in the ever-growing set of movie…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-22 Dawit Mureja Argaw , Joon-Young Lee , Markus Woodson , In So Kweon , Fabian Caba Heilbron

Recent multimodal systems often rely on separate expert modality encoders which cause linearly scaling complexity and computational overhead with added modalities. While unified Omni-models address this via Mixture-of-Expert (MoE)…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Kin Wai Lau , Yasar Abbas Ur Rehman , Lai-Man Po , Pedro Porto Buarque de Gusmão

Omni-modal reasoning is essential for intelligent systems to understand and draw inferences from diverse data sources. While existing omni-modal large language models (OLLM) excel at perceiving diverse modalities, they lack the complex…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Yiran Guan , Sifan Tu , Dingkang Liang , Linghao Zhu , Jianzhong Ju , Zhenbo Luo , Jian Luan , Yuliang Liu , Xiang Bai

Most testbeds for omni-modal models assess multimodal understanding via textual outputs, leaving it unclear whether these models can properly speak their answers. To study this, we introduce OmniACBench, a benchmark for evaluating…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Seunghee Kim , Bumkyu Park , Kyudan Jung , Joosung Lee , Soyoon Kim , Jeonghoon Kim , Taeuk Kim , Hwiyeol Jo

Multimodal self-supervised learning is getting more and more attention as it allows not only to train large networks without human supervision but also to search and retrieve data across various modalities. In this context, this paper…