English
Related papers

Related papers: ConsensusDrop: Fusing Visual and Cross-Modal Salie…

200 papers

Are low-attention visual tokens truly redundant in vision-language reasoning? Existing pruning methods often assume so, ranking visual tokens by shallow text-to-image attention and discarding low-scoring patches to accelerate LVLM…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Jie Ma , Yihang Liu , Zhike Qiu , Jiayi Ji , Xiaoshuai Sun

Despite rapid progress, multimodal reasoning still lacks a systematic approach to synthesize large-scale vision-centric datasets beyond visual math. We introduce a framework able to synthesize vision-centric problems spanning diverse levels…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-18 David Acuna , Chao-Han Huck Yang , Yuntian Deng , Jaehun Jung , Ximing Lu , Prithviraj Ammanabrolu , Hyunwoo Kim , Yuan-Hong Liao , Yejin Choi

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have achieved significant success across various tasks. These models usually encode visual inputs into dense token sequences, which are then concatenated with textual tokens and jointly processed by a language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-03 Hao Zhang , Mengsi Lyu , Chenrui He , Yulong Ao , Yonghua Lin

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) incur substantial computational overhead and inference latency due to the large number of vision tokens introduced by high-resolution image and video inputs. Existing parameter-free token compression methods…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Huanyu Wang , Jushi Kai , Haoli Bai , Lu Hou , Bo Jiang , Ziwei He , Zhouhan Lin

Despite their powerful capabilities, Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) suffer from considerable computational overhead due to their reliance on massive visual tokens. Recent studies have explored token pruning to alleviate this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-13 Xin Zou , Di Lu , Yizhou Wang , Yibo Yan , Yuanhuiyi Lyu , Xu Zheng , Linfeng Zhang , Xuming Hu

Vision-language models (VLMs) benefit from multiple vision encoders, but naively stacking them yields diminishing returns while multiplying inference costs. We propose SCOPE, a Mixture-of-Encoders (MoEnc) framework that dynamically selects…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-20 Tianyu Zhang , Suyuchen Wang , Chao Wang , Juan Rodriguez , Ahmed Masry , Xiangru Jian , Yoshua Bengio , Perouz Taslakian

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are advancing multimodal AI, yet their performance consistency across tasks is underexamined. We benchmark CLIP, BLIP, and LXMERT across diverse datasets spanning retrieval, captioning, and reasoning. Our…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-07-03 Harsh Joshi , Gautam Siddharth Kashyap , Rafiq Ali , Ebad Shabbir , Niharika Jain , Sarthak Jain , Jiechao Gao , Usman Naseem

Cross-modal alignment aims to map heterogeneous modalities into a shared latent space, as exemplified by models like CLIP, which benefit from large-scale image-text pretraining for strong recognition capabilities. However, when operating in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Jiaxiang Liu , Yuan Wang , Jiawei Du , Joey Tianyi Zhou , Mingkun Xu , Zuozhu Liu

Language models (LMs) and their extension, vision-language models (VLMs), have achieved remarkable performance across various tasks. However, they still struggle with complex reasoning tasks that require multimodal or multilingual…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-09 Wenyi Wu , Zixuan Song , Kun Zhou , Yifei Shao , Zhiting Hu , Biwei Huang

Reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) has recently attracted significant attention due to its broad applicability across diverse downstream tasks. However, it remains unclear whether the superior performance of VLMs stems from genuine…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Yige Xu , Yongjie Wang , Zizhuo Wu , Kaisong Song , Jun Lin , Zhiqi Shen

Vision-language models (VLMs) have enabled strong zero-shot classification through image-text alignment. Yet, their purely visual inference capabilities remain under-explored. In this work, we conduct a comprehensive evaluation of both…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Illia Volkov , Nikita Kisel , Klara Janouskova , Jiri Matas

As powerful pre-trained vision-language models (VLMs) like CLIP gain prominence, numerous studies have attempted to combine VLMs for downstream tasks. Among these, prompt learning has been validated as an effective method for adapting to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-19 Yu Du , Tong Niu , Rong Zhao

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) improve performance on vision-language tasks by integrating visual features from pre-trained vision encoders into large language models (LLMs). However, how MLLMs process and utilize visual…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-18 Hao Yin , Guangzong Si , Zilei Wang

Recent studies reveal that integrating new modalities into Large Language Models (LLMs), such as Vision-Language Models (VLMs), creates a new attack surface that bypasses existing safety training techniques like Supervised Fine-tuning (SFT)…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-15 Trishna Chakraborty , Erfan Shayegani , Zikui Cai , Nael Abu-Ghazaleh , M. Salman Asif , Yue Dong , Amit K. Roy-Chowdhury , Chengyu Song

Many adaptations of transformers have emerged to address the single-modal vision tasks, where self-attention modules are stacked to handle input sources like images. Intuitively, feeding multiple modalities of data to vision transformers…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-07-18 Yikai Wang , Xinghao Chen , Lele Cao , Wenbing Huang , Fuchun Sun , Yunhe Wang

While large scale pre-training has achieved great achievements in bridging the gap between vision and language, it still faces several challenges. First, the cost for pre-training is expensive. Second, there is no efficient way to handle…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-23 Jue Wang , Haofan Wang , Jincan Deng , Weijia Wu , Debing Zhang

With the remarkable success of large language models (LLMs) in natural language understanding and generation, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have rapidly advanced in their ability to process data across multiple modalities. While…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Jingrui Zhang , Feng Liang , Yong Zhang , Wei Wang , Runhao Zeng , Xiping Hu

Prompt learning has become one of the most efficient paradigms for adapting large pre-trained vision-language models to downstream tasks. Current state-of-the-art methods, like CoOp and ProDA, tend to adopt soft prompts to learn an…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-03-31 Sifan Long , Zhen Zhao , Junkun Yuan , Zichang Tan , Jiangjiang Liu , Luping Zhou , Shengsheng Wang , Jingdong Wang

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable versatility in understanding diverse multimodal data and tasks. However, these capabilities come with an increased model scale. While post-training pruning reduces model size in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Jaewoo Lee , Keyang Xuan , Chanakya Ekbote , Sandeep Polisetty , Yi R. Fung , Paul Pu Liang

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) excel across diverse tasks but suffer from high inference costs in time and memory. Token sparsity mitigates inefficiencies in token usage, while neuron sparsity reduces high-dimensional computations, both…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Qinsi Wang , Hancheng Ye , Ming-Yu Chung , Yudong Liu , Yueqian Lin , Martin Kuo , Mingyuan Ma , Jianyi Zhang , Yiran Chen