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Chain-of-Thought reasoning has driven large language models to extend from thinking with text to thinking with images and videos. However, different modalities still have clear limitations: static images struggle to represent temporal…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Andong Chen , Wenxin Zhu , Qiuyu Ding , Yuchen Song , Muyun Yang , Tiejun Zhao

The emergence of ChatGPT has once again sparked research in generative artificial intelligence (GAI). While people have been amazed by the generated results, they have also noticed the reasoning potential reflected in the generated textual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-13 Xiaochuan Li , Baoyu Fan , Runze Zhang , Liang Jin , Di Wang , Zhenhua Guo , Yaqian Zhao , Rengang Li

Visual information has been introduced for enhancing machine translation (MT), and its effectiveness heavily relies on the availability of large amounts of bilingual parallel sentence pairs with manual image annotations. In this paper, we…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-07 Andong Chen , Yuchen Song , Kehai Chen , Muyun Yang , Tiejun Zhao , Min Zhang

Interleaved reasoning paradigms enhance Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) with visual feedback but are hindered by the prohibitive computational cost of re-encoding pixel-dense images. A promising alternative, latent visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-22 Shuai Dong , Siyuan Wang , Xingyu Liu , Chenglin Li , Haowen Hou , Zhongyu Wei

Recent large vision-language models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning ability by generating long chain-of-thought (CoT) responses. However, CoT reasoning in multimodal contexts is highly vulnerable to visual hallucination…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Yongchang Zhang , Oliver Ma , Tianyi Liu , Guangquan Zhou , Yang Chen

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have advanced the integration of visual and linguistic modalities, establishing themselves as the dominant paradigm for visual-language tasks. Current approaches like chain of thought (CoT) reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Haojie Zheng , Tianyang Xu , Hanchi Sun , Shu Pu , Ruoxi Chen , Lichao Sun

In recent years, large language models (LLMs) have witnessed remarkable advancements, with the test-time scaling law consistently enhancing the reasoning capabilities. Through systematic evaluation and exploration of a diverse spectrum of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-03 Chenyang Shao , Sijian Ren , Fengli Xu , Yong Li

This paper investigates the capabilities of large language models (LLMs) in formulating and solving decision-making problems using mathematical programming. We first conduct a systematic review and meta-analysis of recent literature to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Mohammad J. Abdel-Rahman , Yasmeen Alslman , Dania Refai , Amro Saleh , Malik A. Abu Loha , Mohammad Yahya Hamed

Real-world reasoning often requires combining information across modalities, connecting textual context with visual cues in a multi-hop process. Yet, most multimodal benchmarks fail to capture this ability: they typically rely on single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Junyoung Sung , Seungwoo Lyu , Minjun Kim , Sumin An , Arsha Nagrani , Paul Hongsuck Seo

We propose cognitive prompting as a novel approach to guide problem-solving in large language models (LLMs) through structured, human-like cognitive operations, such as goal clarification, decomposition, filtering, abstraction, and pattern…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Oliver Kramer , Jill Baumann

Detecting AI-generated images with multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has gained increasing attention, due to their rich world knowledge, common-sense reasoning, and potential for explainability. However, naively applying those MLLMs…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Kaiqing Lin , Zhiyuan Yan , Ruoxin Chen , Junyan Ye , Ke-Yue Zhang , Yue Zhou , Peng Jin , Bin Li , Taiping Yao , Shouhong Ding

Diffusion-based generative models have significantly advanced text-to-image generation but encounter challenges when processing lengthy and intricate text prompts describing complex scenes with multiple objects. While excelling in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Hanan Gani , Shariq Farooq Bhat , Muzammal Naseer , Salman Khan , Peter Wonka

Large-scale Text-to-image Generation Models (LTGMs) (e.g., DALL-E), self-supervised deep learning models trained on a huge dataset, have demonstrated the capacity for generating high-quality open-domain images from multi-modal input.…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-02-17 Hyung-Kwon Ko , Gwanmo Park , Hyeon Jeon , Jaemin Jo , Juho Kim , Jinwook Seo

The Language of Thought Hypothesis suggests that human cognition operates on a structured, language-like system of mental representations. While neural language models can naturally benefit from the compositional structure inherently and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-18 Yi-Fu Wu , Minseung Lee , Sungjin Ahn

Attaining a high degree of user controllability in visual generation often requires intricate, fine-grained inputs like layouts. However, such inputs impose a substantial burden on users when compared to simple text inputs. To address the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Weixi Feng , Wanrong Zhu , Tsu-jui Fu , Varun Jampani , Arjun Akula , Xuehai He , Sugato Basu , Xin Eric Wang , William Yang Wang

In knowledge-intensive tasks, especially in high-stakes domains like medicine and law, it is critical not only to retrieve relevant information but also to provide causal reasoning and explainability. Large language models (LLMs) have…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hang Luo , Jian Zhang , Chujun Li

Recent advances in AI-generated content (AIGC) have significantly accelerated image editing techniques, driving increasing demand for diverse and fine-grained edits. Despite these advances, existing image editing methods still face…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Shuyu Wang , Weiqi Li , Qian Wang , Shijie Zhao , Jian Zhang

While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) excel at visual understanding tasks through text reasoning, they often fall short in scenarios requiring visual imagination. Unlike current works that take predefined external toolkits or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-19 Jintao Tong , Jiaqi Gu , Yujing Lou , Lubin Fan , Yixiong Zou , Yue Wu , Jieping Ye , Ruixuan Li

In this age of information, images are a critical medium for storing and transmitting information. With the rapid growth of image data amount, visual compression and visual data perception are two important research topics attracting a lot…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-02 Yuefeng Zhang , Chuanmin Jia , Jiannhui Chang , Siwei Ma

While state-of-the-art image generation models achieve remarkable visual quality, their internal generative processes remain a "black box." This opacity limits human observation and intervention, and poses a barrier to ensuring model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Young Kyung Kim , Oded Schlesinger , Yuzhou Zhao , J. Matias Di Martino , Guillermo Sapiro