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The remarkable reasoning capability of large language models (LLMs) stems from cognitive behaviors that emerge through reinforcement with verifiable rewards. This work investigates how to transfer this principle to Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Yana Wei , Liang Zhao , Jianjian Sun , Kangheng Lin , Jisheng Yin , Jingcheng Hu , Yinmin Zhang , En Yu , Haoran Lv , Zejia Weng , Jia Wang , Chunrui Han , Yuang Peng , Qi Han , Zheng Ge , Xiangyu Zhang , Daxin Jiang , Vishal M. Patel

Understanding text-rich videos requires reading small, transient textual cues that often demand repeated inspection. Yet most video QA models rely on single-pass perception over fixed frames, leading to hallucinations and failures on…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-11-27 Yolo Y. Tang , Daiki Shimada , Hang Hua , Chao Huang , Jing Bi , Rogerio Feris , Chenliang Xu

We present Kling-Omni, a generalist generative framework designed to synthesize high-fidelity videos directly from multimodal visual language inputs. Adopting an end-to-end perspective, Kling-Omni bridges the functional separation among…

Recent Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) achieve promising performance on visual and audio benchmarks independently. However, the ability of these models to process cross-modal information synchronously remains largely unexplored. We…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Ziwei Zhou , Rui Wang , Zuxuan Wu , Yu-Gang Jiang

Recent work shows that large multimodal models (LMMs) can self-improve from unlabeled data via self-play and intrinsic feedback. Yet existing self-evolving frameworks mainly reward final outcomes, leaving intermediate reasoning weakly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-21 Meghana Sunil , Manikandarajan Venmathimaran , Muthu Subash Kavitha

Multi-modal language models (LM) have recently shown promising performance in high-level reasoning tasks on videos. However, existing methods still fall short in tasks like causal or compositional spatiotemporal reasoning over actions, in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-01-23 Apratim Bhattacharyya , Sunny Panchal , Mingu Lee , Reza Pourreza , Pulkit Madan , Roland Memisevic

We present M2-omni, a cutting-edge, open-source omni-MLLM that achieves competitive performance to GPT-4o. M2-omni employs a unified multimodal sequence modeling framework, which empowers Large Language Models(LLMs) to acquire comprehensive…

We introduce OmnixR, an evaluation suite designed to benchmark SoTA Omni-modality Language Models, such as GPT-4o and Gemini. Evaluating OLMs, which integrate multiple modalities such as text, vision, and audio, presents unique challenges.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Lichang Chen , Hexiang Hu , Mingda Zhang , Yiwen Chen , Zifeng Wang , Yandong Li , Pranav Shyam , Tianyi Zhou , Heng Huang , Ming-Hsuan Yang , Boqing Gong

We present SGuard-v1, a lightweight safety guardrail for Large Language Models (LLMs), which comprises two specialized models to detect harmful content and screen adversarial prompts in human-AI conversational settings. The first component,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-18 JoonHo Lee , HyeonMin Cho , Jaewoong Yun , Hyunjae Lee , JunKyu Lee , Juree Seok

Multimodal reward models (MRMs) play a crucial role in the training, inference, and evaluation of Large Vision Language Models (LVLMs) by assessing response quality. However, existing benchmarks for evaluating MRMs in the video domain…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Zhihong Zhang , Xiaojian Huang , Jin Xu , Zhuodong Luo , Xinzhi Wang , Jiansheng Wei , Xuejin Chen

Recent proprietary models (e.g., o3) have begun to demonstrate strong multimodal reasoning capabilities. Yet, most existing open-source research concentrates on training text-only reasoning models, with evaluations limited to mainly…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Qianchu Liu , Sheng Zhang , Guanghui Qin , Timothy Ossowski , Yu Gu , Ying Jin , Sid Kiblawi , Sam Preston , Mu Wei , Paul Vozila , Tristan Naumann , Hoifung Poon

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable progress in vision-language reasoning tasks, yet ensuring their safety remains a critical challenge. Recent input-side defenses detect unsafe images with CLIP and prepend safety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-02 Xingyu Zhu , Beier Zhu , Junfeng Fang , Shuo Wang , Yin Zhang , Xiang Wang , Xiangnan He

We introduce a lightweight yet highly effective safety guardrail framework for language models, demonstrating that small-scale language models can achieve, and even surpass, the performance of larger counterparts in content moderation…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-14 Aleksei Ilin , Gor Matevosyan , Xueying Ma , Vladimir Eremin , Suhaa Dada , Muqun Li , Riyaaz Shaik , Haluk Noyan Tokgozoglu

We present KidsNanny, a two-stage multimodal content moderation architecture for child safety. Stage 1 combines a vision transformer (ViT) with an object detector for visual screening (11.7 ms); outputs are routed as text not raw pixels to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Viraj Panchal , Tanmay Talsaniya , Parag Patel , Meet Patel

Evaluating the alignment between textual prompts and generated images is critical for ensuring the reliability and usability of text-to-image (T2I) models. However, most existing evaluation methods rely on coarse-grained metrics or static…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Fulin Shi , Wenyi Xiao , Bin Chen , Liang Din , Leilei Gan

As large language models (LLMs) are increasingly deployed in real-world applications, safety guardrails are required to go beyond coarse-grained filtering and support fine-grained, interpretable, and adaptable risk assessment. However,…

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities, yet their performance is often capped by the coarse nature of existing alignment techniques. A critical bottleneck remains the lack of effective reward models…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Zicheng Kong , Dehua Ma , Zhenbo Xu , Alven Yang , Yiwei Ru , Haoran Wang , Zixuan Zhou , Fuqing Bie , Liuyu Xiang , Huijia Wu , Jian Zhao , Zhaofeng He

In this work, we present the first application of Reinforcement Learning with Verifiable Reward (RLVR) to an Omni-multimodal large language model in the context of emotion recognition, a task where both visual and audio modalities play…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Jiaxing Zhao , Xihan Wei , Liefeng Bo

Recent work shows that reinforcement learning(RL) can markedly sharpen the reasoning ability of large language models (LLMs) by prompting them to "think before answering." Yet whether and how these gains transfer to audio-language reasoning…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-04-30 Cheng Wen , Tingwei Guo , Shuaijiang Zhao , Wei Zou , Xiangang Li

Recent advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased remarkable capabilities across various tasks in different domains. However, the emergence of biases and the potential for generating harmful content in LLMs, particularly…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Zhuowen Yuan , Zidi Xiong , Yi Zeng , Ning Yu , Ruoxi Jia , Dawn Song , Bo Li