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Well-designed prompts can guide text-to-image models to generate amazing images. However, the performant prompts are often model-specific and misaligned with user input. Instead of laborious human engineering, we propose prompt adaptation,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-01-01 Yaru Hao , Zewen Chi , Li Dong , Furu Wei

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) tasks agents with locating specific objects in unseen environments using natural language instructions and visual cues. Many existing VLN approaches typically follow an 'observe-and-reason' schema, that…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Yanjia Huang , Mingyang Wu , Renjie Li , Zhengzhong Tu

Recent vision-language models outperform vision-only models on many image classification tasks. However, because of the absence of paired text/image descriptions, it remains difficult to fine-tune these models for fine-grained image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-08-08 Kathleen M. Lewis , Emily Mu , Adrian V. Dalca , John Guttag

Deep learning models may converge to suboptimal solutions despite strong validation accuracy, masking an optimization failure we term Trajectory Deviation. This is because as training proceeds, models can abandon high generalization states…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Eli Corn , Daphna Weinshall

Video understanding is fundamental to tasks such as action recognition, video reasoning, and robotic control. Early video understanding methods based on large vision-language models (LVLMs) typically adopt a single-pass reasoning paradigm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Yiyang Zhou , Yangfan He , Yaofeng Su , Siwei Han , Joel Jang , Gedas Bertasius , Mohit Bansal , Huaxiu Yao

Text-to-video generation models have shown significant progress in the recent years. However, they still struggle with generating complex dynamic scenes based on compositional text prompts, such as attribute binding for multiple objects,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-06 Kaiyi Huang , Yukun Huang , Xuefei Ning , Zinan Lin , Yu Wang , Xihui Liu

Recent progress in video generation has led to impressive visual quality, yet current models still struggle to produce results that align with real-world physical principles. To this end, we propose an iterative self-refinement framework…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Yang Liu , Xilin Zhao , Peisong Wen , Siran Dai , Qingming Huang

In this paper, a novel multiagent based state transition optimization algorithm with linear convergence rate named MASTA is constructed. It first generates an initial population randomly and uniformly. Then, it applies the basic state…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2021-03-08 Xiaojun Zhou

Research in Image Generation has recently made significant progress, particularly boosted by the introduction of Vision-Language models which are able to produce high-quality visual content based on textual inputs. Despite ongoing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-20 Federico Betti , Jacopo Staiano , Lorenzo Baraldi , Lorenzo Baraldi , Rita Cucchiara , Nicu Sebe

Identity-preserving text-to-video (IPT2V) generation creates videos faithful to both a reference subject image and a text prompt. While fine-tuning large pretrained video diffusion models on ID-matched data achieves state-of-the-art results…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Jiayi Gao , Changcheng Hua , Qingchao Chen , Yuxin Peng , Yang Liu

We address the problem of interactive text-to-image (T2I) generation, designing a reinforcement learning (RL) agent which iteratively improves a set of generated images for a user through a sequence of prompt expansions. Using human raters,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-29 Ofir Nabati , Guy Tennenholtz , ChihWei Hsu , Moonkyung Ryu , Deepak Ramachandran , Yinlam Chow , Xiang Li , Craig Boutilier

Recent advancements in Large Language Models have successfully transitioned towards System 2 reasoning, yet applying these paradigms to video understanding remains challenging. While prevailing research attributes failures in Video-LLMs to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Hongbo Jin , Jiayu Ding , Siyi Xie , Guibo Luo , Ge Li

Visual storytelling aims to generate a narrative paragraph from a sequence of images automatically. Existing approaches construct text description independently for each image and roughly concatenate them as a story, which leads to the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-02 Ruize Wang , Zhongyu Wei , Ying Cheng , Piji Li , Haijun Shan , Ji Zhang , Qi Zhang , Xuanjing Huang

End-to-end Vision-language Models (VLMs) often answer visual questions by exploiting spurious correlations instead of causal visual evidence, and can become more shortcut-prone when fine-tuned. We introduce VISTA (Visual-Information…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Zhaonan Li , Shijie Lu , Fei Wang , Jacob Dineen , Xiao Ye , Zhikun Xu , Siyi Liu , Young Min Cho , Bangzheng Li , Daniel Chang , Kenny Nguyen , Qizheng Yang , Muhao Chen , Ben Zhou

Multi-agent trajectory prediction is crucial for autonomous systems operating in dense, interactive environments. Existing methods often fail to jointly capture agents' long-term goals and their fine-grained social interactions, which leads…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Stephane Da Silva Martins , Emanuel Aldea , Sylvie Le Hégarat-Mascle

Existing benchmarks for Vision-Language Models (VLMs) primarily evaluate spatio-temporal understanding on simple single-action videos, closed attribute sets and restricted entity types, failing to capture the freeform, multi-action…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-05 Alejandro Aparcedo , Akash Kumar , Aaryan Garg , Dalton Pham , Wen-Kai Chen , Anirudh Bharadwaj , Aman Chadha , Yogesh Rawat

AI-generated content (AIGC) is rapidly improving, creating an urgent need for detectors that generalize across data sources, deployment pipelines, and visual modalities. A strongly generalizable detector should remain robust under…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-22 Zhengcen Li , Chenyang Jiang , Liangxu Su , Tong Shao , Shiyang Zhou , Ming Tao , Jingyong Su

The advances in multi-modal foundation models (FMs) (e.g., CLIP and LLaVA) have facilitated the auto-labeling of large-scale datasets, enhancing model performance in challenging downstream tasks such as open-vocabulary object detection and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Xiwei Xuan , Xiaoqi Wang , Wenbin He , Jorge Piazentin Ono , Liang Gou , Kwan-Liu Ma , Liu Ren

Generating accurate and consistent visual aids is a critical challenge in mathematics education, where visual representations like geometric shapes and functions play a pivotal role in enhancing student comprehension. This paper introduces…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-11 Jeongwoo Lee , Kwangsuk Park , Jihyeon Park

We present VISTA (Viewpoint-based Image selection with Semantic Task Awareness), an active exploration method for robots to plan informative trajectories that improve 3D map quality in areas most relevant for task completion. Given an…