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The remarkable zero-shot capabilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) have propelled natural language processing from task-specific models to unified, generalist foundation models. This transformation emerged from simple primitives: large,…

Despite impressive progress in high-fidelity image synthesis, generative models still struggle with logic-intensive instruction following, exposing a persistent reasoning--execution gap. Meanwhile, closed-source systems (e.g., Nano Banana)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Sashuai Zhou , Qiang Zhou , Jijin Hu , Hanqing Yang , Yue Cao , Junpeng Ma , Yinchao Ma , Jun Song , Tiezheng Ge , Cheng Yu , Bo Zheng , Zhou Zhao

The rapid evolution of text-to-image generation models has revolutionized visual content creation. While commercial products like Nano Banana Pro have garnered significant attention, their potential as generalist solvers for traditional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Jialong Zuo , Haoyou Deng , Hanyu Zhou , Jiaxin Zhu , Yicheng Zhang , Yiwei Zhang , Yongxin Yan , Kaixing Huang , Weisen Chen , Yongtai Deng , Rui Jin , Nong Sang , Changxin Gao

This paper studies the problem of generalized zero-shot learning which requires the model to train on image-label pairs from some seen classes and test on the task of classifying new images from both seen and unseen classes. Most previous…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-05-28 He Huang , Changhu Wang , Philip S. Yu , Chang-Dong Wang

In this work, we introduce Vision-Language Generative Pre-trained Transformer (VL-GPT), a transformer model proficient at concurrently perceiving and generating visual and linguistic data. VL-GPT achieves a unified pre-training approach for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-12-15 Jinguo Zhu , Xiaohan Ding , Yixiao Ge , Yuying Ge , Sijie Zhao , Hengshuang Zhao , Xiaohua Wang , Ying Shan

Video Diffusion Models (VDMs) have emerged as powerful generative tools, capable of synthesizing high-quality spatiotemporal content. Yet, their potential goes far beyond mere video generation. We argue that the training dynamics of VDMs,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-11 Pablo Acuaviva , Aram Davtyan , Mariam Hassan , Sebastian Stapf , Ahmad Rahimi , Alexandre Alahi , Paolo Favaro

Vision-language models (VLMs) are impactful in part because they can be applied to a variety of visual understanding tasks in a zero-shot fashion, without any fine-tuning. We study $\textit{generative VLMs}$ that are trained for next-word…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-05-16 Zhiqiu Lin , Xinyue Chen , Deepak Pathak , Pengchuan Zhang , Deva Ramanan

We propose to use automatically generated instruction-following data to improve the zero-shot capabilities of a large multimodal model with additional support for generative and image editing tasks. We achieve this by curating a new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-10-04 Jefferson Hernandez , Ruben Villegas , Vicente Ordonez

Despite large-scale pretraining endowing models with language and vision reasoning capabilities, improving their spatial reasoning capability remains challenging due to the lack of data grounded in the 3D world. While it is possible for…

Recently, we have witnessed the great success of the generalist model in natural language processing. The generalist model is a general framework trained with massive data and is able to process various downstream tasks simultaneously.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-12 Ziyi Wang , Yongming Rao , Shuofeng Sun , Xinrun Liu , Yi Wei , Xumin Yu , Zuyan Liu , Yanbo Wang , Hongmin Liu , Jie Zhou , Jiwen Lu

Generative Zero-shot learning (ZSL) learns a generator to synthesize visual samples for unseen classes, which is an effective way to advance ZSL. However, existing generative methods rely on the conditions of Gaussian noise and the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Wenjin Hou , Shiming Chen , Shuhuang Chen , Ziming Hong , Yan Wang , Xuetao Feng , Salman Khan , Fahad Shahbaz Khan , Xinge You

Generalization remains a fundamental challenge in robotic manipulation. To tackle this challenge, recent Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models build policies on top of Vision-Language Models (VLMs), seeking to transfer their open-world…

State-of-the-art computer vision systems are trained to predict a fixed set of predetermined object categories. This restricted form of supervision limits their generality and usability since additional labeled data is needed to specify any…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-03-02 Alec Radford , Jong Wook Kim , Chris Hallacy , Aditya Ramesh , Gabriel Goh , Sandhini Agarwal , Girish Sastry , Amanda Askell , Pamela Mishkin , Jack Clark , Gretchen Krueger , Ilya Sutskever

Large foundation models have shown strong open-world generalization to complex problems in vision and language, but similar levels of generalization have yet to be achieved in robotics. One fundamental challenge is that the models exhibit…

Robotics · Computer Science 2026-02-05 Guoqing Ma , Siheng Wang , Zeyu Zhang , Shan Yu , Hao Tang

Recent Vision-Language Pre-training (VLP) models have demonstrated significant advancements. Nevertheless, these models heavily rely on image-text pairs that capture only coarse and global information of an image, leading to a limitation in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-28 Jungbeom Lee , Sanghyuk Chun , Sangdoo Yun

Continual learning enables pre-trained generative vision-language models (VLMs) to incorporate knowledge from new tasks without retraining data from previous ones. Recent methods update a visual projector to translate visual information for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Hyundong Jin , Hyung Jin Chang , Eunwoo Kim

General-purpose robots require decision-making models that generalize across diverse tasks and environments. Recent works build robot foundation models by extending multimodal large language models (MLLMs) with action outputs, creating…

In generalized zero shot learning (GZSL), the set of classes are split into seen and unseen classes, where training relies on the semantic features of the seen and unseen classes and the visual representations of only the seen classes,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-08-03 Rafael Felix , B. G. Vijay Kumar , Ian Reid , Gustavo Carneiro

Image recognition/classification is a widely studied problem, but its reverse problem, image generation, has drawn much less attention until recently. But the vast majority of current methods for image generation require training/retraining…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-09-20 Haoyang Li

The upsurge in pre-trained large models started by ChatGPT has swept across the entire deep learning community. Such powerful models demonstrate advanced generative ability and multimodal understanding capability, which quickly set new…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-28 Ning Ding , Yehui Tang , Zhongqian Fu , Chao Xu , Kai Han , Yunhe Wang
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