arXiv:2607. 22771v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Picking the frozen image encoder for a 3D~CT vision--language model (VLM), together with the token-compression scheme on top of it, is a search over many candidates.
By Renjie Liang
arXiv:2607. 09438v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Test-time scaling (TTS) reliably improves reasoning in large language models, but whether it transfers to small open vision-language models remains unclear.
By Spiros Baxevanakis, Peng-Jian Yang
arXiv:2608. 08713v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models offer a promising path toward automating radiology report generation, but applying them to full 3D CT volumes poses substantial computational challenges.
By Jonathan Suprijadi, Raphael Stock, Moritz Langenberg, David Zimmerer, Kim-Celine Kahl, Stefan Denner, Yannick Kirchhoff, Karol Gotkowski, Maximilian Rokuss, Jeremias Traub, Tassilo Wald, Constantin Ulrich, Klaus Maier-Hein
arXiv:2606. 03879v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As foundation models scale toward fusing more heterogeneous visual streams, understanding how diverse encoders interact under joint training becomes a prerequisite for principled design.
By Wei Ding, Yudong Zhang, Ruobing Xie, Xingwu Sun, Jiansheng Chen, Yu Wang
Self-supervised learning (SSL) can reduce the need for labelled medical images, but the choice of pretext objective remains unclear for lung ultrasound (LUS). Contrastive learning, masked reconstructi...
arXiv:2609.16551v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Self-supervised learning (SSL) can reduce the need for labelled medical images, but the choice of pretext objective remains unclear for lung ultrasound...
By Moein Heidari, Junbo Rao, Jai Choraria, Wenjin Chen, David J. Foran, Ilker Hacihaliloglu
arXiv:2609.07937v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Structured visual reasoning, such as image puzzles, demands fine-grained visual perception, an ability current Vision Language Models (VLMs) lack. VL...
By Harsha Patnala, Debopriyo Banerjee, Ayush Sunil Munot, Somak Aditya
arXiv:2606. 17660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) is compute-intensive and error-prone: model performance depends sensitively on data quality and hyperparameter choices, and na\"ive runs can even degrade model performance.
By Yuxiang Luo, Haonan Long, Chen Wang, Qiqi Duan, Xiaotian Lin, Yanwei Xu, Yuyu Luo, Weikai Yang, Nan Tang
arXiv:2609.18084v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Fine-tuning a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for a new deployment environment is expensive, yet most methods apply uniform-capacity adapters to e...
By Shahram Najam Syed, Arthur Jakobsson, Prayuj Sachdev, Jeffrey Ichnowski
arXiv:2609.15229v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: We propose a pre-fine-tuning probing method for Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) layer selection, aiming to obtain more stable and higher gains...
By Qingtao Xia, Jiahua Bao, Siyao Cheng, Jie Liu
arXiv:2609.01244v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Every supervised fine-tuning run forces the same chain of decisions, such as learning rate, batch size, LoRA or full fine-tuning, how many epochs, whic...
By Charles O'Neill, Mudith Jayasekara, Harry Partridge
arXiv:2607. 22824v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Comparing CT reconstruction methods fairly is labor-intensive and largely manual, and many benchmarks use idealized data.
By Andreas Maier, Lucas Kachelriess, Siming Bayer, Yixing Huang, Yan Xia, Amber Simpson, Moritz Zaiss