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With the bloom of Large Language Models (LLMs), Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) that incorporate LLMs with pre-trained vision models have recently demonstrated impressive performance across diverse vision-language tasks. However,…

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Although Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) have demonstrated impressive multimodal reasoning capabilities, their scalability and deployment are constrained by massive computational requirements. In particular, the massive amount of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Surendra Pathak , Bo Han

Multimodal Transformers serve as the backbone for state-of-the-art vision-language models, yet their quadratic attention complexity remains a critical barrier to scalability. In this work, we investigate the viability of Linear Attention…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-14 Armin Gerami , Seyedehanita Madani , Ramani Duraiswami

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have recently played a dominant role in multimodal vision-language learning. Despite the great success, it lacks a holistic evaluation of their efficacy. This paper presents a comprehensive evaluation of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-06-16 Peng Xu , Wenqi Shao , Kaipeng Zhang , Peng Gao , Shuo Liu , Meng Lei , Fanqing Meng , Siyuan Huang , Yu Qiao , Ping Luo

Large Language Models (LLMs) have recently been extended to the video domain, enabling sophisticated video-language understanding. However, existing Video LLMs often exhibit limitations in fine-grained temporal reasoning, restricting their…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-01-29 Bo-Cheng Chiu , Jen-Jee Chen , Yu-Chee Tseng , Feng-Chi Chen , An-Zi Yen

Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) have shown incredible capabilities in a variety of 2D vision and language tasks. We extend MLLMs' perceptual capabilities to ground and reason about images in 3-dimensional space. To that end, we…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-07 Jang Hyun Cho , Boris Ivanovic , Yulong Cao , Edward Schmerling , Yue Wang , Xinshuo Weng , Boyi Li , Yurong You , Philipp Krähenbühl , Yan Wang , Marco Pavone

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities in understanding common visual elements, largely due to their large-scale datasets and advanced training strategies. However, their effectiveness in medical…

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown strong performance across various multimodal tasks by leveraging the reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs). However, processing visually complex and information-rich images,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-25 Mincheol Kwon , Minseung Lee , Seonga Choi , Miso Choi , Kyeong-Jin Oh , Hyunyoung Lee , Cheonyoung Park , Yongho Song , Seunghyun Park , Jinkyu Kim

The evolution of large language models (LLMs) towards applications with ultra-long contexts faces challenges posed by the high computational and memory costs of the Transformer architecture. While existing sparse and linear attention…

Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to autonomously navigate complex environments via visual images and natural language instructions--remains highly challenging. Recent research on enhancing language-guided navigation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Changxin Huang , Lv Tang , Zhaohuan Zhan , Lisha Yu , Runhao Zeng , Zun Liu , Zhengjie Wang , Jianqiang Li

Handling lengthy context is crucial for enhancing the recognition and understanding capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) in applications such as processing high-resolution images or high frame rate videos. The rise in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jianing Zhou , Han Li , Shuai Zhang , Ning Xie , Ruijie Wang , Xiaohan Nie , Sheng Liu , Lingyun Wang

The advent of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) has significantly enhanced Large Language Models (LLMs) to process and interpret diverse data modalities (e.g., image and video). However, as input complexity increases, particularly with long…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-23 Shilin Yan , Jiaming Han , Joey Tsai , Hongwei Xue , Rongyao Fang , Lingyi Hong , Ziyu Guo , Ray Zhang

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have achieved impressive results in various vision-language tasks. However, despite showing promising performance, LVLMs suffer from hallucinations caused by language bias, leading to diminished focus on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Haozhe Zhao , Shuzheng Si , Liang Chen , Yichi Zhang , Maosong Sun , Mingjia Zhang , Baobao Chang

Despite the impressive advancements of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs), existing approaches suffer from a fundamental bottleneck: inefficient visual-language integration. Current methods either disrupt the model's inherent structure or…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Tongtian Yue , Longteng Guo , Yepeng Tang , Zijia Zhao , Xinxin Zhu , Hua Huang , Jing Liu

Seeing clearly with high resolution is a foundation of Large Multimodal Models (LMMs), which has been proven to be vital for visual perception and reasoning. Existing works usually employ a straightforward resolution upscaling method, where…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Yi-Fan Zhang , Qingsong Wen , Chaoyou Fu , Xue Wang , Zhang Zhang , Liang Wang , Rong Jin

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown strong performance in visual and audio understanding when evaluated in isolation. However, their ability to jointly reason over omni-modal (visual, audio, and textual) signals in long and…

As the capabilities of large multimodal models (LMMs) continue to advance, evaluating the performance of LMMs emerges as an increasing need. Additionally, there is an even larger gap in evaluating the advanced knowledge and reasoning…

In this paper, we introduce ILLUME, a unified multimodal large language model (MLLM) that seamlessly integrates multimodal understanding and generation capabilities within a single large language model through a unified next-token…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-10 Chunwei Wang , Guansong Lu , Junwei Yang , Runhui Huang , Jianhua Han , Lu Hou , Wei Zhang , Hang Xu

Key-Value (KV) cache memory and bandwidth increasingly dominate large language model inference cost in long-context and long-generation regimes. Architectures such as multi-head latent attention (MLA) and hybrid sliding-window attention…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-04-08 Zhen Cheng , Hao-Bo Yang , Wan-Yi Huang , Jin-Long Li

Since the resurgence of deep learning, vision-language models (VLMs) enhanced by large language models (LLMs) have grown exponentially in popularity. However, while LLMs can utilize extensive background knowledge and task information with…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-03-21 Haozhe Zhao , Zefan Cai , Shuzheng Si , Xiaojian Ma , Kaikai An , Liang Chen , Zixuan Liu , Sheng Wang , Wenjuan Han , Baobao Chang