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Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have led to improved performance on tasks such as visual question answering and image captioning. Consequently, these models are now well-positioned to reason about the physical world,…

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Vision-Language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on multimodal tasks but often fail at systematic visual reasoning tasks, leading to inconsistent or illogical outputs. Neuro-symbolic methods promise to address this by inducing…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Antonia Wüst , Wolfgang Stammer , Hikaru Shindo , Lukas Helff , Devendra Singh Dhami , Kristian Kersting

Recently, the remarkable success of ChatGPT has sparked a renewed wave of interest in artificial intelligence (AI), and the advancements in visual language models (VLMs) have pushed this enthusiasm to new heights. Differring from previous…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Lijie Tao , Haokui Zhang , Haizhao Jing , Yu Liu , Dawei Yan , Guoting Wei , Xizhe Xue

We have witnessed promising progress led by large language models (LLMs) and further vision language models (VLMs) in handling various queries as a general-purpose assistant. VLMs, as a bridge to connect the visual world and language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-25 YuK-Kwan Wong , Tuan-An To , Jipeng Zhang , Ziqiang Zheng , Sai-Kit Yeung

While language reasoning models excel in many tasks, visual reasoning remains challenging for current large multimodal models (LMMs). As a result, most LMMs default to verbalizing perceptual content into text, a strong limitation for tasks…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-27 André G. Viveiros , Nuno Gonçalves , Matthias Lindemann , André Martins

Engineering design is undergoing a transformative shift with the advent of AI, marking a new era in how we approach product, system, and service planning. Large language models have demonstrated impressive capabilities in enabling this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Cyril Picard , Kristen M. Edwards , Anna C. Doris , Brandon Man , Giorgio Giannone , Md Ferdous Alam , Faez Ahmed

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved substantial progress across a wide range of understanding and reasoning tasks, driven by large-scale image-text training aimed at multimodal fusion. Ideally, replacing a textual question with its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Feng Han , Zhixiong Zhang , Zheming Liang , Yibin Wang , Jiaqi Wang

Medical image segmentation allows quantifying target structure size and shape, aiding in disease diagnosis, prognosis, surgery planning, and comprehension.Building upon recent advancements in foundation Vision-Language Models (VLMs) from…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-21 Kanchan Poudel , Manish Dhakal , Prasiddha Bhandari , Rabin Adhikari , Safal Thapaliya , Bishesh Khanal

Visual grounding refers to the ability of a model to identify a region within some visual input that matches a textual description. Consequently, a model equipped with visual grounding capabilities can target a wide range of applications in…

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Vision Language Models (VLMs) have achieved remarkable success by integrating visual encoders with large language models (LLMs). While VLMs process dense image tokens across deep transformer stacks (incurring substantial computational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Sambit Ghosh , R. Venkatesh Babu , Chirag Agarwal

Transforming a large language model (LLM) into a Vision-Language Model (VLM) can be achieved by mapping the visual tokens from a vision encoder into the embedding space of an LLM. Intriguingly, this mapping can be as simple as a shallow MLP…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-26 Benno Krojer , Shravan Nayak , Oscar Mañas , Vaibhav Adlakha , Desmond Elliott , Siva Reddy , Marius Mosbach

This paper explores training medical vision-language models (VLMs) -- where the visual and language inputs are embedded into a common space -- with a particular focus on scenarios where training data is limited, as is often the case in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Rhydian Windsor , Amir Jamaludin , Timor Kadir , Andrew Zisserman

While recent vision-and-language models (VLMs) like CLIP are a powerful tool for analyzing text and images in a shared semantic space, they do not explicitly model the hierarchical nature of the set of texts which may describe an image.…

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In this paper, we introduce an open-source Korean-English vision-language model (VLM), VARCO-VISION. We incorporate a step-by-step training strategy that allows a model learn both linguistic and visual information while preserving the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Jeongho Ju , Daeyoung Kim , SunYoung Park , Youngjune Kim

The rapid adoption of Vision Language Models (VLMs), pre-trained on large image-text and video-text datasets, calls for protecting and informing users about when to trust these systems. This survey reviews studies on trust dynamics in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Agnese Chiatti , Sara Bernardini , Lara Shibelski Godoy Piccolo , Viola Schiaffonati , Matteo Matteucci

We introduce VL2NL, a Large Language Model (LLM) framework that generates rich and diverse NL datasets using only Vega-Lite specifications as input, thereby streamlining the development of Natural Language Interfaces (NLIs) for data…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Hyung-Kwon Ko , Hyeon Jeon , Gwanmo Park , Dae Hyun Kim , Nam Wook Kim , Juho Kim , Jinwook Seo

Text-to-3D generation has advanced rapidly, yet state-of-the-art models, encompassing both optimization-based and feed-forward architectures, still face two fundamental limitations. First, they struggle with coarse semantic alignment, often…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-19 Weimin Bai , Yubo Li , Weijian Luo , Zeqiang Lai , Yequan Wang , Wenzheng Chen , He Sun

The field of vision-language models (VLMs), which take images and texts as inputs and output texts, is rapidly evolving and has yet to reach consensus on several key aspects of the development pipeline, including data, architecture, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-26 Hugo Laurençon , Andrés Marafioti , Victor Sanh , Léo Tronchon

Earth Observation (EO) data encompass a vast range of remotely sensed information, featuring multi-sensor and multi-temporal, playing an indispensable role in understanding our planet's dynamics. Recently, Vision Language Models (VLMs) have…

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