arXiv AI

Hot-Start Chinese Language Modeling:Visual Glyphs Accelerate Sample-Efficient Learning

arXiv:2601. 09566v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In this work, we study whether rendering Chinese characters as visual glyph images, rather than discrete token IDs as mainstream LLMs do, providing an inductive bias for character-level language modeling.

arXiv AI
Sep 10

LoGAN: Multilingual Font Localization with Generative Agents

LoGAN is a VLM-based agentic framework designed for few-shot multilingual font localization. It takes a handful of glyphs or logo letters and generates complete character sets across many languages, including CJK, by combining a glyph-level diffusion model, style finetuning, spacing/kerning transfer, and texture expansion. The method outperforms specialized font generators and state‑of‑the‑art image editors in glyph fidelity, style, texture, and kerning consistency on datasets covering more than 27 languages.

By Zhuoning Yuan, Ta-Ying Cheng, Benjamin Klein
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 24

ASCIIBench: Evaluating Language-Model-Based Understanding of Visually-Oriented Text

ASCIIBench is a new benchmark that evaluates large language models on generating and classifying ASCII-text images, using a dataset of 5,315 labeled ASCII images. The authors also release a fine‑tuned CLIP model adapted to capture ASCII structure for evaluation. Their analysis shows that cosine similarity on CLIP embeddings fails to separate most categories, indicating a representation bottleneck rather than generational variance.

By Kerry Luo, Michael Fu, Joshua Peguero, Husnain Malik, Anvay Patil, Joyce Lin, Megan Van Overborg, Ryan Sarmiento, Kevin Zhu
arXiv AI
Aug 20

ReWEIGH the Evidence: Calibrating Token-Level Ordinal Visual Evidence to Mitigate Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models

ReWEIGH the Evidence is a training‑free decoding technique that calibrates token‑level ordinal visual evidence to reduce hallucinations in large vision‑language models. It aggregates vocabulary ranks across visual positions, compares candidates to a token‑specific reference derived from unlabeled images, and applies a bounded penalty only when evidence falls below this reference. Experiments on four 7B backbones show up to a 21.3% reduction in hallucinated object mentions while largely preserving or improving descriptive and general performance, with minimal added latency.

By Jihae Jeong, Junha Choi, Hwanjo Yu