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Recent advances in multimodal LLMs, have led to several video-text models being proposed for critical video-related tasks. However, most of the previous works support visual input only, essentially muting the audio signal in the video. Few…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-23 Shivprasad Sagare , Hemachandran S , Kinshuk Sarabhai , Prashant Ullegaddi , Rajeshkumar SA

Lately, researchers in artificial intelligence have been really interested in how language and vision come together, giving rise to the development of multimodal models that aim to seamlessly integrate textual and visual information.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-29 Rajat Chawla , Arkajit Datta , Tushar Verma , Adarsh Jha , Anmol Gautam , Ayush Vatsal , Sukrit Chaterjee , Mukunda NS , Ishaan Bhola

In this paper, we study how to use masked signal modeling in vision and language (V+L) representation learning. Instead of developing masked language modeling (MLM) and masked image modeling (MIM) independently, we propose to build joint…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-16 Gukyeong Kwon , Zhaowei Cai , Avinash Ravichandran , Erhan Bas , Rahul Bhotika , Stefano Soatto

Multi-modality promises to unlock further uses for large language models. Recently, the state-of-the-art language model GPT-4 was enhanced with vision capabilities. We carry out a prompting evaluation of GPT-4V and five other baselines on…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-20 Mukul Singh , José Cambronero , Sumit Gulwani , Vu Le , Gust Verbruggen

In recent years, several machine learning models have been proposed. They are trained with a language modelling objective on large-scale text-only data. With such pretraining, they can achieve impressive results on many Natural Language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-12-06 Alessandro Suglia , Ioannis Konstas , Oliver Lemon

Vision (image and video) - Language (VL) pre-training is the recent popular paradigm that achieved state-of-the-art results on multi-modal tasks like image-retrieval, video-retrieval, visual question answering etc. These models are trained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-18 Avinash Madasu , Vasudev Lal

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance in cross-modal understanding across textual and visual inputs, yet existing benchmarks predominantly focus on pure-text queries. In real-world scenarios, language also…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Qing'an Liu , Juntong Feng , Yuhao Wang , Xinzhe Han , Yujie Cheng , Yue Zhu , Haiwen Diao , Yunzhi Zhuge , Huchuan Lu

Despite the impressive advancements achieved through vision-and-language pretraining, it remains unclear whether this joint learning paradigm can help understand each individual modality. In this work, we conduct a comparative analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-31 Zhuowan Li , Cihang Xie , Benjamin Van Durme , Alan Yuille

In-context learning (ICL) enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to learn tasks from demonstration examples without parameter updates. Although it has been extensively studied in LLMs, its effectiveness in Vision-Language Models (VLMs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-29 Gabriel O. dos Santos , Esther Colombini , Sandra Avila

Language grounding aims at linking the symbolic representation of language (e.g., words) into the rich perceptual knowledge of the outside world. The general approach is to embed both textual and visual information into a common space -the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-15 Hassan Shahmohammadi , Hendrik P. A. Lensch , R. Harald Baayen

Recent advances in vision-and-language modeling have seen the development of Transformer architectures that achieve remarkable performance on multimodal reasoning tasks. Yet, the exact capabilities of these black-box models are still poorly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-10-24 Mitja Nikolaus , Emmanuelle Salin , Stephane Ayache , Abdellah Fourtassi , Benoit Favre

We present our work in progress exploring the possibilities of a shared embedding space between textual and visual modality. Leveraging the textual nature of object detection labels and the hypothetical expressiveness of extracted visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-21 Dušan Variš , Katsuhito Sudoh , Satoshi Nakamura

Multimodal few-shot learning is challenging due to the large domain gap between vision and language modalities. Existing methods are trying to communicate visual concepts as prompts to frozen language models, but rely on hand-engineered…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Ivona Najdenkoska , Xiantong Zhen , Marcel Worring

Integrating visual-language instructions into visuomotor policies is gaining momentum in robot learning for enhancing open-world generalization. Despite promising advances, existing approaches face two challenges: limited language…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Wenhui Huang , Changhe Chen , Han Qi , Chen Lv , Yilun Du , Heng Yang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel at describing visual scenes, yet struggle to translate perception into precise, grounded actions. We investigate whether providing VLMs with both the visual frame and the symbolic representation of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Ashish Baghel , Paras Chopra

Entity state tracking is a necessary component of world modeling that requires maintaining coherent representations of entities over time. Previous work has benchmarked entity tracking performance in purely text-based tasks. We introduce…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Vanya Cohen , Raymond Mooney

Omni-modal language models (OLMs) aim to integrate and reason over diverse input modalities--such as text, images, video, and audio--while maintaining strong language capabilities. Despite recent advancements, existing models, especially…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Tinghui Zhu , Kai Zhang , Muhao Chen , Yu Su

Multi-modal word semantics aims to enhance embeddings with perceptual input, assuming that human meaning representation is grounded in sensory experience. Most research focuses on evaluation involving direct visual input, however, visual…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-10-07 Anita L. Verő , Ann Copestake

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown strong performance in tasks like visual question answering and multimodal text generation, but their effectiveness in scientific domains such as materials science remains limited. While some machine…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 An Vuong , Minh-Hao Van , Prateek Verma , Chen Zhao , Xintao Wu

Multimodal deep learning systems which employ multiple modalities like text, image, audio, video, etc., are showing better performance in comparison with individual modalities (i.e., unimodal) systems. Multimodal machine learning involves…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Anil Rahate , Rahee Walambe , Sheela Ramanna , Ketan Kotecha