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Despite remarkable advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), a fundamental question remains: are MLLMs robust to contradicting modalities? To rigorously study this, we introduce MMA-Bench comprising videos and tasks that…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Tianle Chen , Chaitanya Chakka , Arjun Reddy Akula , Xavier Thomas , Deepti Ghadiyaram

Fake news detection remains a challenging problem due to the complex interplay between textual misinformation, manipulated images, and external knowledge reasoning. While existing approaches have achieved notable results in verifying…

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Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) has been shown effective in enhancing the visual reflection and reasoning capabilities of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs). However, existing datasets are predominantly derived from either…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-20 Haoxiang Sun , Lizhen Xu , Bing Zhao , Wotao Yin , Wei Wang , Boyu Yang , Rui Wang , Hu Wei

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly used for real-world tasks involving multi-step reasoning and long-form generation, where reliability requires grounding model outputs in heterogeneous input sources and verifying…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-08 David Wan , Han Wang , Ziyang Wang , Elias Stengel-Eskin , Hyunji Lee , Mohit Bansal

While recent advances in reinforcement learning have significantly enhanced reasoning capabilities in large language models (LLMs), these techniques remain underexplored in multi-modal LLMs for video captioning. This paper presents the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Desen Meng , Rui Huang , Zhilin Dai , Xinhao Li , Yifan Xu , Jun Zhang , Zhenpeng Huang , Meng Zhang , Lingshu Zhang , Yi Liu , Limin Wang

We analyze knowledge-based visual question answering, for which given a question, the models need to ground it into the visual modality and retrieve the relevant knowledge from a given large knowledge base (KB) to be able to answer. Our…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Elham J. Barezi , Parisa Kordjamshidi

Despite significant breakthroughs in video analysis driven by the rapid development of large multimodal models (LMMs), there remains a lack of a versatile evaluation benchmark to comprehensively assess these models' performance in video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Yunxin Li , Xinyu Chen , Baotian Hu , Longyue Wang , Haoyuan Shi , Min Zhang

Video reasoning, the task of enabling machines to infer from dynamic visual content through multi-step logic, is crucial for advanced AI. While the Chain-of-Thought (CoT) mechanism has enhanced reasoning in text-based tasks, its application…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-08 Mi Luo , Zihui Xue , Alex Dimakis , Kristen Grauman

Video understanding plays a vital role in bridging low-level visual signals with high-level cognitive reasoning, and is fundamental to applications such as autonomous driving, embodied AI, and the broader pursuit of AGI. The rapid…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Yongheng Zhang , Xu Liu , Ruihan Tao , Qiguang Chen , Hao Fei , Wanxiang Che , Libo Qin

Recent advancements in Chain of Thought (COT) generation have significantly improved the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs), with reinforcement learning (RL) emerging as an effective post-training approach. Multimodal…

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Exploiting relationships among objects has achieved remarkable progress in interpreting images or videos by natural language. Most existing methods resort to first detecting objects and their relationships, and then generating textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Jingyi Hou , Xinxiao Wu , Yayun Qi , Wentian Zhao , Jiebo Luo , Yunde Jia

Video understanding aims to enable models to perceive, reason about, and interact with the dynamic visual world. In contrast to image understanding, video understanding inherently requires modeling temporal dynamics and evolving visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Zhaochong An , Zirui Li , Mingqiao Ye , Feng Qiao , Jiaang Li , Zongwei Wu , Vishal Thengane , Chengzu Li , Lei Li , Luc Van Gool , Guolei Sun , Serge Belongie

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant advances in visual understanding tasks involving both images and videos. However, their capacity to comprehend human-centric video data remains underexplored, primarily…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yuxuan Cai , Jiangning Zhang , Zhenye Gan , Qingdong He , Xiaobin Hu , Junwei Zhu , Yabiao Wang , Chengjie Wang , Zhucun Xue , Chaoyou Fu , Xinwei He , Xiang Bai

While there is overall agreement that future technology for organizing, browsing and searching videos hinges on the development of methods for high-level semantic understanding of video, so far no consensus has been reached on the best way…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-06-20 Du Tran , Maksim Bolonkin , Manohar Paluri , Lorenzo Torresani

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) strive to achieve a profound, human-like understanding of and interaction with the physical world, but often exhibit a shallow and incoherent integration when acquiring information (Perception) and…

Cause-and-effect reasoning in video is a significant challenge for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), as it requires going beyond surface-level perception to a deeper understanding of causal mechanisms. However, existing benchmarks rarely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-25 Mingfang Zhang , Jingjing Pan , Ashutosh Kumar , Rajat Saini , Mustafa Erdogan , Hsuan-Kung Yang , Caixin Kang , Yifei Huang , Yoichi Sato , Quan Kong

The advent of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) has expanded AI capabilities to visual modalities, yet existing evaluation benchmarks remain limited to single-video understanding, overlooking the critical need for multi-video…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Tianhao Peng , Haochen Wang , Yuanxing Zhang , Zekun Wang , Zili Wang , Gavin Chang , Jian Yang , Shihao Li , Yanghai Wang , Xintao Wang , Houyi Li , Wei Ji , Pengfei Wan , Steven Huang , Zhaoxiang Zhang , Jiaheng Liu

Recent advancements in Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have significantly enhanced their ability to integrate visual and linguistic information, achieving near-human proficiency in tasks like object recognition, captioning, and visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-14 Zhikai Wang , Jiashuo Sun , Wenqi Zhang , Zhiqiang Hu , Xin Li , Fan Wang , Deli Zhao

Existing research of video understanding still struggles to achieve in-depth comprehension and reasoning in complex videos, primarily due to the under-exploration of two key bottlenecks: fine-grained spatial-temporal perceptive…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-08 Hao Fei , Shengqiong Wu , Wei Ji , Hanwang Zhang , Meishan Zhang , Mong-Li Lee , Wynne Hsu