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Diffusion-based generative modeling has been achieving state-of-the-art results on various generation tasks. Most diffusion models, however, are limited to a single-generation modeling. Can we generalize diffusion models with the ability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-09-26 Changyou Chen , Han Ding , Bunyamin Sisman , Yi Xu , Ouye Xie , Benjamin Z. Yao , Son Dinh Tran , Belinda Zeng

Our experience of the world is multimodal - we see objects, hear sounds, feel texture, smell odors, and taste flavors. Modality refers to the way in which something happens or is experienced and a research problem is characterized as…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-08-02 Tadas Baltrušaitis , Chaitanya Ahuja , Louis-Philippe Morency

Unified multimodal models (UMMs) aim to integrate understanding and generation within a single architecture. However, it remains underexplored how to effectively coordinate these two capabilities for more effective and efficient reasoning.…

Multimedia · Computer Science 2026-05-13 Hayes Bai , Yinyi Luo , Wenwen Wang , Qingsong Wen , Jindong Wang

Driving World Models (DWMs) have been developing rapidly with the advances of generative models. However, existing DWMs lack 3D scene understanding capabilities and can only generate content conditioned on input data, without the ability to…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Tianchen Deng , Xuefeng Chen , Yi Chen , Qu Chen , Yuyao Xu , Lijin Yang , Le Xu , Yu Zhang , Bo Zhang , Wuxiong Huang , Hesheng Wang

Recent years have seen remarkable progress in autonomous driving, yet generalization to long-tail and open-world scenarios remains a major bottleneck for large-scale deployment. To address this challenge, some works use LLMs and VLMs for…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-04-13 Hao Shao , Letian Wang , Yang Zhou , Yuxuan Hu , Zhuofan Zong , Steven L. Waslander , Wei Zhan , Hongsheng Li

As autonomous driving technology matures, end-to-end methodologies have emerged as a leading strategy, promising seamless integration from perception to control via deep learning. However, existing systems grapple with challenges such as…

Multimodal learning has become a prominent research area, with the potential of substantial performance gains by combining information across modalities. At the same time, model development has trended toward increasingly complex deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-08 Tillmann Rheude , Roland Eils , Benjamin Wild

Multimodal learning, which involves integrating information from various modalities such as text, images, audio, and video, is pivotal for numerous complex tasks like visual question answering, cross-modal retrieval, and caption generation.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-07-29 G. Thomas Hudson , Dean Slack , Thomas Winterbottom , Jamie Sterling , Chenghao Xiao , Junjie Shentu , Noura Al Moubayed

Developing effective path representations has become increasingly essential across various fields within intelligent transportation. Although pre-trained path representation learning models have shown improved performance, they…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Ronghui Xu , Hanyin Cheng , Chenjuan Guo , Hongfan Gao , Jilin Hu , Sean Bin Yang , Bin Yang

Developing a universal model that can effectively harness heterogeneous resources and respond to a wide range of personalized needs has been a longstanding community aspiration. Our daily choices, especially in domains like fashion and…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2024-03-29 Tianxin Wei , Bowen Jin , Ruirui Li , Hansi Zeng , Zhengyang Wang , Jianhui Sun , Qingyu Yin , Hanqing Lu , Suhang Wang , Jingrui He , Xianfeng Tang

The focus of this survey is on the analysis of two modalities of multimodal deep learning: image and text. Unlike classic reviews of deep learning where monomodal image classifiers such as VGG, ResNet and Inception module are central…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-10-19 Wei Chen , Weiping Wang , Li Liu , Michael S. Lew

While recent multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made impressive strides, they predominantly employ a conventional autoregressive architecture as their backbone, leaving significant room to explore effective and efficient…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2026-03-09 Lijiang Li , Zuwei Long , Yunhang Shen , Heting Gao , Haoyu Cao , Xing Sun , Caifeng Shan , Ran He , Chaoyou Fu

Despite the widespread adoption of MLLMs in embodied agents, their capabilities remain largely confined to reactive planning from immediate observations, consistently failing in spatial reasoning across extensive spatiotemporal scales.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Qihui Zhu , Shouwei Ruan , Xiao Yang , Hao Jiang , Yao Huang , Shiji Zhao , Hanwei Fan , Hang Su , Xingxing Wei

Creative workflows for generating graphical documents involve complex inter-related tasks, such as aligning elements, choosing appropriate fonts, or employing aesthetically harmonious colors. In this work, we attempt at building a holistic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Naoto Inoue , Kotaro Kikuchi , Edgar Simo-Serra , Mayu Otani , Kota Yamaguchi

Next-generation multimodal foundation models capable of any-to-any cross-modal generation and multi-turn interaction will serve as core components of artificial general intelligence systems, playing a pivotal role in human-machine…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Run Luo , Xiaobo Xia , Lu Wang , Longze Chen , Renke Shan , Jing Luo , Min Yang , Tat-Seng Chua

Multi-modal neural machine translation (NMT) aims to translate source sentences into a target language paired with images. However, dominant multi-modal NMT models do not fully exploit fine-grained semantic correspondences between semantic…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2020-07-20 Yongjing Yin , Fandong Meng , Jinsong Su , Chulun Zhou , Zhengyuan Yang , Jie Zhou , Jiebo Luo

Multimodal Mathematical Reasoning (MMR) has recently attracted increasing attention for its capability to solve mathematical problems involving both textual and visual modalities. However, current models still face significant challenges in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Tianyu Yang , Sihong Wu , Yilun Zhao , Zhenwen Liang , Lisen Dai , Chen Zhao , Minhao Cheng , Arman Cohan , Xiangliang Zhang

As artificial intelligence systems increasingly operate in Real-world environments, the integration of multi-modal data sources such as vision, language, and audio presents both unprecedented opportunities and critical challenges for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Sree Bhargavi Balija

Multimodal Foundation Models (MMFMs) have demonstrated strong performance in both computer vision and natural language processing tasks. However, their performance diminishes in tasks that require a high degree of integration between these…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-06 Franz Louis Cesista

Current multimodal and multitask foundation models like 4M or UnifiedIO show promising results, but in practice their out-of-the-box abilities to accept diverse inputs and perform diverse tasks are limited by the (usually rather small)…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-06-17 Roman Bachmann , Oğuzhan Fatih Kar , David Mizrahi , Ali Garjani , Mingfei Gao , David Griffiths , Jiaming Hu , Afshin Dehghan , Amir Zamir