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Following the recent popularity of Large Language Models (LLMs), several attempts have been made to extend them to the visual domain. From having a visual assistant that could guide us through unfamiliar environments to generative models…

Large Language Models (LLMs) have allowed recent LLM-based approaches to achieve excellent performance on long-video understanding benchmarks. We investigate how extensive world knowledge and strong reasoning skills of underlying LLMs…

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We observe that pre-trained large language models (LLMs) are capable of autoregressively completing complex token sequences -- from arbitrary ones procedurally generated by probabilistic context-free grammars (PCFG), to more rich spatial…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-10-27 Suvir Mirchandani , Fei Xia , Pete Florence , Brian Ichter , Danny Driess , Montserrat Gonzalez Arenas , Kanishka Rao , Dorsa Sadigh , Andy Zeng

Despite significant advancements, large multimodal models (LMMs) still struggle to bridge the gap between low-level visual perception -- focusing on shapes, sizes, and layouts -- and high-level language reasoning, such as semantics and…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-13 Zhenhailong Wang , Joy Hsu , Xingyao Wang , Kuan-Hao Huang , Manling Li , Jiajun Wu , Heng Ji

The widespread use of cameras in our society has created an overwhelming amount of video data, far exceeding the capacity for human monitoring. This presents a critical challenge for public safety and security, as the timely detection of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-28 Pascal Benschop , Cristian Meo , Justin Dauwels , Jelte P. Mense

The remarkable success of Large Language Models (LLMs) and instruction tuning drives the evolution of Vision Language Models (VLMs) towards a versatile general-purpose model. Yet, it remains unexplored whether current VLMs genuinely possess…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Byung-Kwan Lee , Beomchan Park , Chae Won Kim , Yong Man Ro

Vision language models (VLMs) exhibit vast knowledge of the physical world, including intuition of physical and spatial properties, affordances, and motion. With fine-tuning, VLMs can also natively produce robot trajectories. We demonstrate…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-05-16 William Xie , Max Conway , Yutong Zhang , Nikolaus Correll

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as a promising framework for enabling generalist robots capable of perceiving, reasoning, and acting in the real world. These models usually build upon pretrained Vision-Language Models…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Tao Lin , Gen Li , Yilei Zhong , Yanwen Zou , Yuxin Du , Jiting Liu , Encheng Gu , Bo Zhao

Recent advancements in event-based zero-shot object recognition have demonstrated promising results. However, these methods heavily depend on extensive training and are inherently constrained by the characteristics of CLIP. To the best of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-12 Zongyou Yu , Qiang Qu , Xiaoming Chen , Chen Wang

While specialized learning-based models have historically dominated image privacy prediction, the current literature increasingly favours adopting large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) designed for generic tasks. This trend risks overlooking…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Alina Elena Baia , Alessio Xompero , Andrea Cavallaro

Current video understanding models excel at recognizing "what" is happening but fall short in high-level cognitive tasks like causal reasoning and future prediction, a limitation rooted in their lack of commonsense world knowledge. To…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 L'ea Dubois , Klaus Schmidt , Chengyu Wang , Ji-Hoon Park , Lin Wang , Santiago Munoz

Foundational multimodal models pre-trained on large scale image-text pairs or video-text pairs or both have shown strong generalization abilities on downstream tasks. However unlike image-text models, pretraining video-text models is always…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Avinash Madasu , Anahita Bhiwandiwalla , Vasudev Lal

Recent works have shown that unstructured text (documents) from online sources can serve as useful auxiliary information for zero-shot image classification. However, these methods require access to a high-quality source like Wikipedia and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-12-06 Muhammad Ferjad Naeem , Muhammad Gul Zain Ali Khan , Yongqin Xian , Muhammad Zeshan Afzal , Didier Stricker , Luc Van Gool , Federico Tombari

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning abilities, prompting interest in their application as black-box optimizers. This paper asserts that LLMs possess the capability for zero-shot optimization across diverse…

Recent generalist vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive reasoning capabilities across diverse multimodal tasks. However, these models still struggle with fine-grained object-level understanding and grounding. In terms…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Timothy Ossowski , Junjie Hu

The emergence of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has established new baselines in image classification across multiple domains. We examine whether their multimodal reasoning can also address a challenge mastered by human experts.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-11 Ombretta Strafforello , Derya Soydaner , Michiel Willems , Anne-Sofie Maerten , Stefanie De Winter

Language models~(LMs) gradually become general-purpose interfaces in the interactive and embodied world, where the understanding of physical concepts is an essential prerequisite. However, it is not yet clear whether LMs can understand…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-05-24 Lei Li , Jingjing Xu , Qingxiu Dong , Ce Zheng , Qi Liu , Lingpeng Kong , Xu Sun

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have recently achieved promising zero-shot accuracy on visual question answering (VQA) -- a fundamental task affecting various downstream applications and domains. Given the great potential for the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-02-13 Jiarui Zhang , Mahyar Khayatkhoei , Prateek Chhikara , Filip Ilievski

This paper presents a comprehensive survey of vision-language (VL) intelligence from the perspective of time. This survey is inspired by the remarkable progress in both computer vision and natural language processing, and recent trends…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-03-04 Feng Li , Hao Zhang , Yi-Fan Zhang , Shilong Liu , Jian Guo , Lionel M. Ni , PengChuan Zhang , Lei Zhang

Instruction-tuned large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated promising zero-shot generalization capabilities across various downstream tasks. Recent research has introduced multimodal capabilities to LLMs by integrating independently…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-11-29 Utsav Garg , Erhan Bas