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Contemporary Vision-Language Models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on a wide range of tasks by pairing a vision encoder with a pre-trained language model, fine-tuned for visual-text inputs. Yet despite these gains, it remains unclear how…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-02-10 Lachin Naghashyar , Hunar Batra , Ashkan Khakzar , Philip Torr , Ronald Clark , Christian Schroeder de Witt , Constantin Venhoff

In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant strides by training on vast high-quality image-text datasets, enabling them to generally understand images well. However, the inherent difficulty in explicitly…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Yuanze Lin , Yunsheng Li , Dongdong Chen , Weijian Xu , Ronald Clark , Philip Torr , Lu Yuan

In vision-language pre-training (VLP), masked image modeling (MIM) has recently been introduced for fine-grained cross-modal alignment. However, in most existing methods, the reconstruction targets for MIM lack high-level semantics, and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-04 Haowei Liu , Yaya Shi , Haiyang Xu , Chunfeng Yuan , Qinghao Ye , Chenliang Li , Ming Yan , Ji Zhang , Fei Huang , Bing Li , Weiming Hu

BERT adopts masked language modeling (MLM) for pre-training and is one of the most successful pre-training models. Since BERT neglects dependency among predicted tokens, XLNet introduces permuted language modeling (PLM) for pre-training to…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-11-03 Kaitao Song , Xu Tan , Tao Qin , Jianfeng Lu , Tie-Yan Liu

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) equip pre-trained large-language models (LLMs) with visual capabilities. While textual prompting in LLMs has been widely studied, visual prompting has emerged for more fine-grained and free-form…

In recent years, there has been remarkable progress in leveraging Language Models (LMs), encompassing Pre-trained Language Models (PLMs) and Large-scale Language Models (LLMs), within the domain of mathematics. This paper conducts a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Wentao Liu , Hanglei Hu , Jie Zhou , Yuyang Ding , Junsong Li , Jiayi Zeng , Mengliang He , Qin Chen , Bo Jiang , Aimin Zhou , Liang He

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have substantially expanded the capabilities of multimodal retrieval, enabling systems to align and retrieve information across visual and textual modalities. Yet, existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Xuan Lu , Kangle Li , Haohang Huang , Rui Meng , Wenjun Zeng , Xiaoyu Shen

Multi-image reasoning and grounding require understanding complex cross-image relationships at both object levels and image levels. Current Large Visual Language Models (LVLMs) face two critical challenges: the lack of cross-image reasoning…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-09-29 Lihao Zheng , Jiawei Chen , Xintian Shen , Hao Ma , Tao Wei

Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) have demonstrated strong generalization capabilities across diverse distributions and tasks, largely due to extensive pre-training datasets. Fine-tuning MLLM has become a common practice to improve…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-19 Wenke Huang , Jian Liang , Zekun Shi , Didi Zhu , Guancheng Wan , He Li , Bo Du , Dacheng Tao , Mang Ye

Fueled by the Large Language Models (LLMs) wave, Large Visual-Language Models (LVLMs) have emerged as a pivotal advancement, bridging the gap between image and text. However, video making it challenging for LVLMs to perform adequately due…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-12 Yang Liu , Pengxiang Ding , Siteng Huang , Min Zhang , Han Zhao , Donglin Wang

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) represent an evolutionary expansion in the capabilities of traditional large language models, enabling them to tackle challenges that surpass the scope of purely text-based applications. It leverages…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-17 Jinlong He , Pengfei Li , Gang Liu , Genrong He , Zhaolin Chen , Shenjun Zhong

Large language models (LLMs) have expanded from text to speech, giving rise to Speech Large Models (SLMs) that support recognition, translation, and synthesis. A key challenge is aligning speech and text representations, which becomes…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Pei Zhang , Andong Chen , Xi Chen , Baosong Yang , Derek F. Wong , Fei Huang

Optimizing data mixtures is essential for unlocking the full potential of large language models (LLMs), yet identifying the optimal composition remains computationally prohibitive due to reliance on heuristic trials or expensive proxy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-01-27 Jiapeng Wang , Changxin Tian , Kunlong Chen , Ziqi Liu , Jiaxin Mao , Wayne Xin Zhao , Zhiqiang Zhang , Jun Zhou

The ratio of outlier parameters in language pre-training models and vision pre-training models differs significantly, making cross-modality (language and vision) inherently more challenging than cross-domain adaptation. As a result, many…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-06 Yaxin Luo , Zhiqiang Shen

The performance of large language models (LLMs) is significantly affected by the quality and composition of their pre-training data, which is inherently diverse, spanning various languages, sources, and topics. Effectively integrating these…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Jiahui Peng , Xinlin Zhuang , Jiantao Qiu , Ren Ma , Jing Yu , He Zhu , Conghui He

With the rapid advancement of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), a variety of benchmarks have been introduced to evaluate their capabilities. While most evaluations have focused on complex tasks such as scientific comprehension and…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-12-24 Huan Liu , Lingyu Xiao , Jiangjiang Liu , Xiaofan Li , Ze Feng , Sen Yang , Jingdong Wang

While MLLMs perform well on perceptual tasks, they lack precise multimodal alignment, limiting performance. To address this challenge, we propose Vision Dynamic Embedding-Guided Pretraining (VDEP), a hybrid autoregressive training paradigm…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-14 Mingxiao Li , Fang Qu , Zhanpeng Chen , Na Su , Zhizhou Zhong , Ziyang Chen , Nan Du , Xiaolong Li

This survey provides a comprehensive overview of recent advances in multimodal alignment and fusion within the field of machine learning, driven by the increasing availability and diversity of data modalities such as text, images, audio,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Songtao Li , Hao Tang

With the recent success of the pre-training technique for NLP and image-linguistic tasks, some video-linguistic pre-training works are gradually developed to improve video-text related downstream tasks. However, most of the existing…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-16 Huaishao Luo , Lei Ji , Botian Shi , Haoyang Huang , Nan Duan , Tianrui Li , Jason Li , Taroon Bharti , Ming Zhou

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on various visual tasks, yet they still require adaptation on downstream tasks to achieve optimal performance. Recently, various adaptation technologies have been…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-03-11 Chuanming Wang , Henming Mao , Huanhuan Zhang , Huiyuan Fu , Huadong Ma