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There have been various types of pretraining architectures including autoencoding models (e.g., BERT), autoregressive models (e.g., GPT), and encoder-decoder models (e.g., T5). However, none of the pretraining frameworks performs the best…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-03-18 Zhengxiao Du , Yujie Qian , Xiao Liu , Ming Ding , Jiezhong Qiu , Zhilin Yang , Jie Tang

Multimodal abstractive summarization (MAS) models that summarize videos (vision modality) and their corresponding transcripts (text modality) are able to extract the essential information from massive multimodal data on the Internet.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Tiezheng Yu , Wenliang Dai , Zihan Liu , Pascale Fung

This work presents a comparative analysis of embedding-based and generative models for classifying geoscience technical documents. Using a multi-disciplinary benchmark dataset, we evaluated the trade-offs between model accuracy, stability,…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Rong Lu , Hao Liu , Song Hou

This paper describes a method for generating robot grasps by jointly considering stability and other task and object-specific constraints. We introduce a three-level representation that is acquired for each object class from a small number…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-03-22 Mark Robson , Mohan Sridharan

Scaling LLM-based embodied agents from text-only environments to complex multimodal settings remains a major challenge. Recent work identifies a perception-reasoning-decision gap in standalone Vision-Language Models (VLMs), which often…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Mohamed Salim Aissi , Clemence Grislain , Clement Romac , Laure Soulier , Mohamed Chetouani , Olivier Sigaud , Nicolas Thome

Grasping objects with limited or no prior knowledge about them is a highly relevant skill in assistive robotics. Still, in this general setting, it has remained an open problem, especially when it comes to only partial observability and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-01-21 Matthias Humt , Dominik Winkelbauer , Ulrich Hillenbrand , Berthold Bäuml

Traditional supervised methods for detecting AI-generated images depend on large, curated datasets for training and fail to generalize to novel, out-of-domain image generators. As an alternative, we explore pre-trained Vision-Language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Zoher Kachwala , Danishjeet Singh , Danielle Yang , Filippo Menczer

Grasp detection is an essential task in robotics with various industrial applications. However, traditional methods often struggle with occlusions and do not utilize language for grasping. Incorporating natural language into grasp detection…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-30 Tuan Van Vo , Minh Nhat Vu , Baoru Huang , An Vuong , Ngan Le , Thieu Vo , Anh Nguyen

For humans, the process of grasping an object relies heavily on rich tactile feedback. Most recent robotic grasping work, however, has been based only on visual input, and thus cannot easily benefit from feedback after initiating contact.…

Advancements in diffusion models have significantly improved video quality, directing attention to fine-grained controllability. However, many existing methods depend on fine-tuning large-scale video models for specific tasks, which becomes…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Sangwon Jang , Taekyung Ki , Jaehyeong Jo , Jaehong Yoon , Soo Ye Kim , Zhe Lin , Sung Ju Hwang

Aligning large visual generative models with human feedback is often performed through pairwise preference optimization. While such approaches are conceptually simple, they fundamentally rely on annotated pairs, limiting scalability in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jinbin Bai , Yu Lei , Qingyu Shi , Aosong Feng , Yi Xin , Zhuoran Zhao , Fei Shen , Kaidong Yu , Jason Li

Scene Graph Generation (SGG) encodes visual relationships between objects in images as graph structures. Thanks to the advances of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), the task of Open-Vocabulary SGG has been recently proposed where models are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Maëlic Neau , Zoe Falomir , Cédric Buche , Akihiro Sugimoto

In this work, we propose a training-free method to inject visual prompts into Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) through test-time optimization of a learnable latent variable. We observe that attention, as the core module of MLLMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Mingrui Wu , Xinyue Cai , Jiayi Ji , Jiale Li , Oucheng Huang , Gen Luo , Hao Fei , Guannan Jiang , Xiaoshuai Sun , Rongrong Ji

This study presents a control framework leveraging vision language models (VLMs) for multiple tasks and robots. Notably, existing control methods using VLMs have achieved high performance in various tasks and robots in the training…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-19 Kazuki Shibata , Hideki Deguchi , Shun Taguchi

Language-conditioned robotic skills make it possible to apply the high-level reasoning of Large Language Models (LLMs) to low-level robotic control. A remaining challenge is to acquire a diverse set of fundamental skills. Existing…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-08-19 Xufeng Zhao , Cornelius Weber , Stefan Wermter

Generalization remains a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation. To tackle this challenge, recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models build policies on top of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), seeking to transfer their open-world…

Natural language generation (NLG) is an essential component of task-oriented dialogue systems. Despite the recent success of neural approaches for NLG, they are typically developed for particular domains with rich annotated training…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-05-15 Fei Mi , Minlie Huang , Jiyong Zhang , Boi Faltings

To manipulate objects in novel, unstructured environments, robots need task-oriented grasps that target object parts based on the given task. Geometry-based methods often struggle with visually defined parts, occlusions, and unseen objects.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Edmond Tong , Advaith Balaji , Anthony Opipari , Stanley Lewis , Zhen Zeng , Odest Chadwicke Jenkins

Large pre-trained vision language models (VLMs) have shown impressive zero-shot ability on downstream tasks with manually designed prompt. To further adapt VLMs to downstream tasks, soft prompt is proposed to replace manually designed…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Shuanghao Bai , Yuedi Zhang , Wanqi Zhou , Zhirong Luan , Badong Chen

Recent works have shown that Large Language Models (LLMs) can be applied to ground natural language to a wide variety of robot skills. However, in practice, learning multi-task, language-conditioned robotic skills typically requires…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-09 Oier Mees , Jessica Borja-Diaz , Wolfram Burgard