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Contemporary large-scale visual language models (VLMs) exhibit strong representation capacities, making them ubiquitous for enhancing image and text understanding tasks. They are often trained in a contrastive manner on a large and diverse…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-08 Ugur Sahin , Hang Li , Qadeer Khan , Daniel Cremers , Volker Tresp

The burgeoning field of generative artificial intelligence has fundamentally reshaped our approach to content creation, with Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) standing at its forefront. While current LVLMs have demonstrated impressive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-08 Spencer Ramsey , Jeffrey Lee , Amina Grant

The rise of generative large language models (LLMs) has opened new opportunities for automating knowledge representation through concept maps, a long-standing pedagogical tool valued for fostering meaningful learning and higher-order…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-09-19 Xiaoming Zhai

Visual blends combine elements from two distinct visual concepts into a single, integrated image, with the goal of conveying ideas through imaginative and often thought-provoking visuals. Communicating abstract concepts through visual…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-02-25 Zhida Sun , Zhenyao Zhang , Yue Zhang , Min Lu , Dani Lischinski , Daniel Cohen-Or , Hui Huang

Text-to-image (T2I) generation has achieved remarkable progress, yet existing methods often lack the ability to dynamically reason and refine during generation--a hallmark of human creativity. Current reasoning-augmented paradigms most rely…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Harold Haodong Chen , Xinxiang Yin , Wen-Jie Shu , Hongfei Zhang , Zixin Zhang , Chenfei Liao , Litao Guo , Qifeng Chen , Ying-Cong Chen

Large language models (LLMs) and multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have significantly advanced artificial intelligence. However, visual reasoning, reasoning involving both visual and textual inputs, remains underexplored. Recent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-18 I-Sheng Fang , Jun-Cheng Chen

A chief goal of artificial intelligence is to build machines that think like people. Yet it has been argued that deep neural network architectures fail to accomplish this. Researchers have asserted these models' limitations in the domains…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-09 Luca M. Schulze Buschoff , Elif Akata , Matthias Bethge , Eric Schulz

Recent advancements in Vision-Language (VL) research have sparked new benchmarks for complex visual reasoning, challenging models' advanced reasoning ability. Traditional Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well in visual perception tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Zhiyuan Li , Dongnan Liu , Chaoyi Zhang , Heng Wang , Tengfei Xue , Weidong Cai

This paper delves into the capabilities of large language models (LLMs), specifically focusing on advancing the theoretical comprehension of chain-of-thought prompting. We investigate how LLMs can be effectively induced to generate a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Rasul Tutunov , Antoine Grosnit , Juliusz Ziomek , Jun Wang , Haitham Bou-Ammar

As applications of generative AI become mainstream, it is important to understand what generative models are capable of producing, and the extent to which one can predictably control their outputs. In this paper, we propose a visualization…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-07-01 Sangwon Jeong , Mingwei Li , Matthew Berger , Shusen Liu

Composed Image Retrieval (CIR) aims to retrieve target images based on a reference image and modified texts. However, existing methods often struggle to extract the correct semantic cues from the reference image that best reflect the user's…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-19 Xuri Ge , Chunhao Wang , Xindi Wang , Zheyun Qin , Zhumin Chen , Xin Xin

Recent advancements in Generative AI, particularly in Large Language Models (LLMs) and Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), offer new possibilities for integrating cognitive planning into robotic systems. In this work, we present a novel…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-11-06 Arjun P S , Andrew Melnik , Gora Chand Nandi

Can visual imagery be driven solely by language? This idea goes against cognitive science's traditional view that visual mental imagery is only possible through pictorial representations. Large Language Models (LLMs) provide nascent…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Morgan McCarty , Jorge Morales

Recent progress in text-to-image (T2I) diffusion models (DMs) has enabled high-quality visual synthesis from diverse textual prompts. Yet, most existing T2I DMs, even those equipped with large language model (LLM)-based text encoders,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-16 Siqi Kou , Jiachun Jin , Zetong Zhou , Ye Ma , Yugang Wang , Quan Chen , Peng Jiang , Xiao Yang , Jun Zhu , Kai Yu , Zhijie Deng

Connecting text and visual modalities plays an essential role in generative intelligence. For this reason, inspired by the success of large language models, significant research efforts are being devoted to the development of Multimodal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Davide Caffagni , Federico Cocchi , Luca Barsellotti , Nicholas Moratelli , Sara Sarto , Lorenzo Baraldi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Marcella Cornia , Rita Cucchiara

Recent advancements in text-to-image (T2I) generative models have shown remarkable capabilities in producing diverse and imaginative visuals based on text prompts. Despite the advancement, these diffusion models sometimes struggle to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-30 Xiaohui Chen , Yongfei Liu , Yingxiang Yang , Jianbo Yuan , Quanzeng You , Li-Ping Liu , Hongxia Yang

At present, large multimodal models (LMMs) have exhibited impressive generalization capabilities in understanding and generating visual signals. However, they currently still lack sufficient capability to perceive low-level visual quality…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-20 Zhipeng Huang , Zhizheng Zhang , Yiting Lu , Zheng-Jun Zha , Zhibo Chen , Baining Guo

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive progress in single-image grounding and general multi-image understanding. Recently, some methods begin to address multi-image grounding. However, they are constrained by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Shurong Zheng , Yousong Zhu , Hongyin Zhao , Fan Yang , Yufei Zhan , Ming Tang , Jinqiao Wang

Recent advances in text-to-image (T2I) generation have enabled visually coherent image synthesis from descriptions, but generating images containing multiple given subjects remains challenging. As the number of reference identities…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Yucheng Zhou , Dubing Chen , Huan Zheng , Jianbing Shen

Materials design often relies on human-generated hypotheses, a process inherently limited by cognitive constraints such as knowledge gaps and limited ability to integrate and extract knowledge implications, particularly when…