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A significant ``modality gap" exists between the abundance of text-only data and the increasing power of multimodal models. This work systematically investigates whether images generated on-the-fly by Text-to-Image (T2I) models can serve as…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Yuesheng Huang , Peng Zhang , Xiaoxin Wu , Riliang Liu , Jiaqi Liang

Visual reasoning, a cornerstone of human intelligence, encompasses complex perceptual and logical processes essential for solving diverse visual problems. While advances in computer vision have produced powerful models for various…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zetong Zhou , Dongping Chen , Zixian Ma , Zhihan Hu , Mingyang Fu , Sinan Wang , Yao Wan , Zhou Zhao , Ranjay Krishna

Visual latent reasoning lets a multimodal large language model (MLLM) create intermediate visual evidence as continuous tokens, avoiding external tools or image generators. However, existing methods usually follow an output-as-input latent…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Yanting Miao , Yutao Sun , Dexin Wang , Mengyu Zhou , Pascal Poupart , Lei Lv , Qi Zhao , Li Wang , Hao Li , Xiaoxi Jiang , Guanjun Jiang

Large Language Models (LLMs) excel at multi-step reasoning problems with explicit chain-of-thought (CoT), but verbose traces incur significant computational costs and memory overhead, and often carry redundant, stylistic artifacts. Latent…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Anna Kuzina , Maciej Pioro , Paul N. Whatmough , Babak Ehteshami Bejnordi

Current multimodal LLMs encode images as static visual prefixes and rely on text-based reasoning, lacking goal-driven and adaptive visual access. Inspired by human visual perception-where attention is selectively and sequentially shifted…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-31 Guangfu Guo , Xiaoqian Lu , Yue Feng , Mingming Sun

The advancement of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) has enabled impressive perception capabilities. However, their reasoning process often remains a "fast thinking" paradigm, reliant on end-to-end generation or explicit,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Yiming Zhang , Qiangyu Yan , Borui Jiang , Kai Han

Recent advances in multimodal reasoning models have demonstrated impressive capabilities across text and vision. However, even leading models exhibit redundant self-reflection when generating lengthy reasoning chains. While training-free…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-24 Yuan Zhang , Ming Lu , Junwen Pan , Tao Huang , Kuan Cheng , Qi She , Shanghang Zhang

In the field of multi-modal language models, the majority of methods are built on an architecture similar to LLaVA. These models use a single-layer ViT feature as a visual prompt, directly feeding it into the language models alongside…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-22 Kaibing Chen , Dong Shen , Hanwen Zhong , Huasong Zhong , Kui Xia , Di Xu , Wei Yuan , Yifei Hu , Bin Wen , Tianke Zhang , Changyi Liu , Dewen Fan , Huihui Xiao , Jiahong Wu , Fan Yang , Size Li , Di Zhang

We introduce Goal-Conditioned Visual Navigation Instruction Generation (GoViG), a new task that aims to generate contextually coherent navigation instructions solely from egocentric visual observations of initial and goal states. Unlike…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-30 Fengyi Wu , Yifei Dong , Yilong Dai , Guangyu Chen , Qifeng Wu , Huiting Huang , Hang Wang , Qi Dai , Alexander G. Hauptmann , Zhi-Qi Cheng

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) struggle to reliably detect visual primitives in charts and align them with semantic representations, which severely limits their performance on complex visual reasoning. This lack of perceptual…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-13 Eunsoo Lee , Jeongwoo Lee , Minki Hong , Jangho Choi , Jihie Kim

In language reasoning, longer chains of thought consistently yield better performance, which naturally suggests that visual latent reasoning may likewise benefit from longer latent sequences. However, we discover a counterintuitive…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Chenfeng Wang , Wei He , Xuhan Zhu , Chunpeng Zhou , Qizhen Li , Song Yan , Yufei Zheng , Chengjun Yu , Fan Lu , Wei Zhai , Yang Cao , Pengfei Yu , Zheng-Jun Zha

While Large Language Models (LLMs) have emerged with remarkable capabilities in complex tasks through Chain-of-Thought reasoning, practical resource constraints have sparked interest in transferring these abilities to smaller models.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-01-08 Jin Cui , Jiaqi Guo , Jiepeng Zhou , Ruixuan Yang , Jiayi Lu , Jiajun Xu , Jiangcheng Song , Boran Zhao , Pengju Ren

Annotating 3D data remains a costly bottleneck for 3D object detection, motivating the development of weakly supervised annotation methods that rely on more accessible 2D box annotations. However, relying solely on 2D boxes introduces…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-10 Saad Lahlali , Alexandre Fournier Montgieux , Nicolas Granger , Hervé Le Borgne , Quoc Cuong Pham

Modern computer vision is converging on a closed loop in which perception, reasoning and generation mutually reinforce each other. However, this loop remains incomplete: the top-down influence of high-level reasoning on the foundational…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-27 Yuxuan Li , Yicheng Zhang , Wenhao Tang , Yimian Dai , Ming-Ming Cheng , Xiang Li , Jian Yang

Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have advanced rapidly by aligning visual patches with the text embedding space, but a fixed visual-token budget forces images to be resized to a uniform pretraining resolution, often erasing fine-grained…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Zipeng Zhu , Zhanghao Hu , Qinglin Zhu , Yuxi Hong , Yijun Liu , Jingyong Su , Yulan He , Lin Gui

Recent advances in reasoning models have shown remarkable progress in text-based domains, but transferring those capabilities to multimodal settings, e.g., to allow reasoning over audio-visual data, still remains a challenge, in part…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-21 Edson Araujo , Saurabhchand Bhati , M. Jehanzeb Mirza , Brian Kingsbury , Samuel Thomas , Rogerio Feris , James R. Glass , Hilde Kuehne

Do video-text transformers learn to model temporal relationships across frames? Despite their immense capacity and the abundance of multimodal training data, recent work has revealed the strong tendency of video-text models towards…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-19 Yi Li , Kyle Min , Subarna Tripathi , Nuno Vasconcelos

Current visual reasoning methods mainly focus on exploring specific reasoning modes. Although improvements can be achieved in particular domains, they struggle to develop general reasoning capabilities. Inspired by this, we propose a novel…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Zejun Li , Yingxiu Zhao , Jiwen Zhang , Siyuan Wang , Yang Yao , Runzhou Zhao , Jun Song , Bo Zheng , Zhongyu Wei

The impressive achievements of generative models in creating high-quality videos have raised concerns about digital integrity and privacy vulnerabilities. Recent works of AI-generated content detection have been widely studied in the image…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Qingyuan Liu , Yun-Yun Tsai , Ruijian Zha , Victoria Li , Pengyuan Shi , Chengzhi Mao , Junfeng Yang

While explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) equips Large Language Models (LLMs) with strong reasoning capabilities, it requires models to verbalize every intermediate step in text tokens, constraining the model thoughts to the discrete vocabulary…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-12 Weihao Liu , Dehai Min , Lu Cheng