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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance across vision-language tasks, but suffer from significant computational overhead due to the quadratic growth of attention computations with the number of multimodal…

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Due to the severe lack of labeled data, existing methods of medical visual question answering usually rely on transfer learning to obtain effective image feature representation and use cross-modal fusion of visual and linguistic features to…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2021-05-04 Haifan Gong , Guanqi Chen , Sishuo Liu , Yizhou Yu , Guanbin Li

Medical vision-language models show strong potential for joint reasoning over medical images and clinical text, but their performance often degrades under domain shift caused by variations in imaging devices, acquisition protocols, and…

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Despite the significant progress in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), their high computational cost remains a barrier to real-world deployment. Inspired by the mixture of depths (MoDs) in natural language processing, we aim to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Yaxin Luo , Gen Luo , Jiayi Ji , Yiyi Zhou , Xiaoshuai Sun , Zhiqiang Shen , Rongrong Ji

Vision-language models are increasingly employed as multimodal conversational agents (MCAs) for diverse conversational tasks. Recently, reinforcement learning (RL) has been widely explored for adapting MCAs to various human-AI interaction…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Yongqi Li , Hao Lang , Tieyun Qian , Yongbin Li

The exponential growth of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) has driven advancements in cross-modal reasoning but at significant computational costs. In this work, we focus on visual language models. We highlight the redundancy and inefficiency…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-28 Yasmine Omri , Parth Shroff , Thierry Tambe

Multimodal models typically combine a powerful large language model (LLM) with a vision encoder and are then trained on multimodal data via instruction tuning. While this process adapts LLMs to multimodal settings, it remains unclear…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Neale Ratzlaff , Man Luo , Xin Su , Vasudev Lal , Phillip Howard

Cross-lingual cross-modal retrieval has garnered increasing attention recently, which aims to achieve the alignment between vision and target language (V-T) without using any annotated V-T data pairs. Current methods employ machine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-02 Yabing Wang , Fan Wang , Jianfeng Dong , Hao Luo

Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly attractive for multimodal quality assessment, but their default reliance on autoregressive text generation and dynamic visual processing is poorly matched to scalar regression under strict…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-28 William Leach , Ru He , Sizhuo Ma , Yizhen Jia , Min Cao , Jian Wang , Rick Cao

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have attracted widespread interest and have rich applications. However, the inherent attention mechanism in its Transformer structure requires quadratic complexity and results in expensive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Yanyuan Qiao , Zheng Yu , Longteng Guo , Sihan Chen , Zijia Zhao , Mingzhen Sun , Qi Wu , Jing Liu

EEG-based visual neural decoding aims to align neural responses with visual stimuli for tasks such as image retrieval. However, limited paired data and a fundamental mismatch between high-fidelity digital images and biological visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-07 Jingtao Liu , Peiliang Gong , Chuhang Zheng , Yiheng Liu , Qi Zhu

State-of-the-art Vision-Language Models (VLMs) ground the vision and the language modality primarily via projecting the vision tokens from the encoder to language-like tokens, which are directly fed to the Large Language Model (LLM)…

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Integrating visual and linguistic information into a single multimodal representation is an unsolved problem with wide-reaching applications to both natural language processing and computer vision. In this paper, we present a simple method…

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MLLMs have been successfully applied to multimodal embedding tasks, yet their generative reasoning capabilities remain underutilized. Directly incorporating chain-of-thought reasoning into embedding learning introduces two fundamental…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Yuchi Wang , Haiyang Yu , Weikang Bian , Jiefeng Long , Xiao Liang , Chao Feng , Hongsheng Li

Multimodal representation learning has shown promising improvements on various vision-language tasks. Most existing methods excel at building global-level alignment between vision and language while lacking effective fine-grained image-text…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Zijia Zhao , Longteng Guo , Xingjian He , Shuai Shao , Zehuan Yuan , Jing Liu

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have attracted much attention for their multifunctionality. However, traditional Transformer architectures incur significant overhead due to their secondary computational complexity. To address this…

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Cross-robot policy learning -- training a single policy to perform well across multiple embodiments -- remains a central challenge in robot learning. Transformer-based policies, such as vision-language-action (VLA) models, are typically…

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Although Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable potential in Visual Document Retrieval (VDR) through generating high-quality multi-vector embeddings, the substantial storage overhead caused by representing a page…

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Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse vision-language tasks, yet their internal decision-making mechanisms remain insufficiently understood. Existing interpretability research has primarily…

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