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Foundation models are vital tools in various Computer Vision applications. They take as input a single RGB image and output a deep feature representation that is useful for various applications. However, in case we have multiple views of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-18 Leo Segre , Or Hirschorn , Shai Avidan

Multi-modal reasoning plays a vital role in bridging the gap between textual and visual information, enabling a deeper understanding of the context. This paper presents the Feature Swapping Multi-modal Reasoning (FSMR) model, designed to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-01 Shuang Li , Jiahua Wang , Lijie Wen

Multimodal foundation models aim to create a unified representation space that abstracts away from surface features like language syntax or modality differences. To investigate this, we study the internal representations of three recent…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-02-21 Hyunji Lee , Danni Liu , Supriti Sinhamahapatra , Jan Niehues

Foundation models are used for many real-world applications involving language generation from temporally-ordered multimodal events. In this work, we study the ability of models to identify the most important sub-events in a video, which is…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-06 Aditya K Surikuchi , Raquel Fernández , Sandro Pezzelle

Human understanding and generation are critical for modeling digital humans and humanoid embodiments. Recently, Human-centric Foundation Models (HcFMs) inspired by the success of generalist models, such as large language and vision models,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-13 Shixiang Tang , Yizhou Wang , Lu Chen , Yuan Wang , Sida Peng , Dan Xu , Wanli Ouyang

Foundation models (FMs), including large language models, have become increasingly popular due to their wide-ranging applicability and ability to understand human-like semantics. While previous research has explored the use of FMs in…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-10-28 Peiwen Jiang , Chao-Kai Wen , Xinping Yi , Xiao Li , Shi Jin , Jun Zhang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) strive to achieve a profound, human-like understanding of and interaction with the physical world, but often exhibit a shallow and incoherent integration when acquiring information (Perception) and…

The rapid advancement of autonomous systems, including self-driving vehicles and drones, has intensified the need to forge true Spatial Intelligence from multi-modal onboard sensor data. While foundation models excel in single-modal…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Song Wang , Lingdong Kong , Xiaolu Liu , Hao Shi , Wentong Li , Jianke Zhu , Steven C. H. Hoi

Analogical reasoning, particularly in multimodal contexts, is the foundation of human perception and creativity. Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) has recently sparked considerable discussion due to its emergent capabilities. In this…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-05 Diandian Guo , Cong Cao , Fangfang Yuan , Dakui Wang , Wei Ma , Yanbing Liu , Jianhui Fu

Frontier models are transitioning from multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that merely ingest visual information to unified multimodal models (UMMs) capable of native interleaved generation. This shift has sparked interest in using…

Visual Language Models (VLMs) are powerful generative tools but often produce factually inaccurate outputs due to a lack of robust reasoning capabilities. While extensive research has been conducted on integrating external knowledge for…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Shamima Hossain

Large multimodal models (LMMs) have rapidly advanced in perception and reasoning; however, it remains unclear whether these capabilities generalize to discovering visually grounded solutions in open-ended environments, beyond pattern…

Multimodal Large Models (MLMs) are becoming a significant research focus, combining powerful large language models with multimodal learning to perform complex tasks across different data modalities. This review explores the latest…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-02 Xinji Mai , Zeng Tao , Junxiong Lin , Haoran Wang , Yang Chang , Yanlan Kang , Yan Wang , Wenqiang Zhang

When language models answer open-ended problems, they implicitly make hidden decisions that shape their outputs, leaving users with uncontextualized answers rather than a working map of the problem; drawing on multiverse analysis from…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Andre Ye , Jenny Y. Huang , Alicia Guo , Rose Novick , Tamara Broderick , Mitchell L. Gordon

Molecular knowledge resides within three different modalities of information sources: molecular structures, biomedical documents, and knowledge bases. Effective incorporation of molecular knowledge from these modalities holds paramount…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-24 Yizhen Luo , Kai Yang , Massimo Hong , Xing Yi Liu , Zaiqing Nie

Brain foundation models (BFMs) have emerged as a transformative paradigm in computational neuroscience, offering a revolutionary framework for processing diverse neural signals across different brain-related tasks. These models leverage…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-22 Xinliang Zhou , Chenyu Liu , Zhisheng Chen , Kun Wang , Yi Ding , Ziyu Jia , Qingsong Wen

We explore Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), which integrate LLMs like GPT-4 to handle multimodal data, including text, images, audio, and more. MLLMs demonstrate capabilities such as generating image captions and answering…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-09 Shezheng Song , Xiaopeng Li , Shasha Li , Shan Zhao , Jie Yu , Jun Ma , Xiaoguang Mao , Weimin Zhang

A world model is an AI system that simulates how an environment evolves under actions, enabling planning through imagined futures rather than reactive perception. Current world models, however, suffer from visual conflation: the mistaken…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-23 Zhikang Chen , Tingting Zhu

Foundation models (FMs) are driving a prominent shift in biomedical imaging from task-specific models to unified backbone models for diverse tasks. This opens an avenue to integrate imaging, pathology, clinical records, and genomics data…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-23 Amgad Muneer , Kai Zhang , Ibraheem Hamdi , Rizwan Qureshi , Muhammad Waqas , Shereen Fouad , Hazrat Ali , Syed Muhammad Anwar , Jia Wu

The rapid advancement of remote sensing foundation models, particularly vision and multimodal models, has significantly enhanced the capabilities of intelligent geospatial data interpretation. These models combine various data modalities,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Ziyue Huang , Hongxi Yan , Qiqi Zhan , Shuai Yang , Mingming Zhang , Chenkai Zhang , YiMing Lei , Zeming Liu , Qingjie Liu , Yunhong Wang