arXiv Machine Learning

Multimodality as Supervision: Self-Supervised Specialization to the Test Environment via Multimodality

arXiv:2607. 14721v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cross-modal learning, i.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 22

Cognitive Action Reasoning for Proactive Robots from Human-Centered Multimodal Observations

The paper introduces ProAction, a multimodal dataset of 10,000 samples comprising visual, audio, and text inputs across 12 daily-life scenarios, designed to support the Proactive Robot Action Reasoning (ProRobo) problem. It presents a two-stage human-in-the-loop annotation pipeline that incorporates appraisal and Theory-of-Mind considerations to generate cognitively grounded high-level action labels. The authors benchmark multimodal large language models and propose MMC2Act, showing that training on ProAction significantly improves proactive action reasoning compared to general-purpose models.

By Zhihao Gu, Kechao Zhu, Yuanfeng Wu, Mohan Liu, Ankit Kumar Shaw, ChenDong Hong, Xuanyu Chen, Dengchen Mei, Xu Tianyi, Lin Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 22

Generalized Multimodal Foundation Model

The paper introduces a generalized multimodal foundation model that can handle arbitrary combinations of modalities and prediction tasks. It trains on large-scale synthetic multimodal datasets with diverse causal structures to learn transferable multimodal correlations. Experiments on 18 real-world datasets across 12 modalities and 11 tasks show competitive performance compared to specialized models without task-specific adaptation.

By Huizi Cui, Zongbo Han, Chenggong Ding, Naichuan Xiao, Jialong Yang, Jingdong Chen, Guangyu Wang, Qinghua Hu, Changqing Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 15

TwinICL: Diagnosing Multimodal In-Context Learning through Paired Counterfactuals

TwinICL is a procedurally generated benchmark that pairs matched text and image versions of tasks to enable controlled comparison of in‑context learning (ICL) across modalities. Experiments on six open‑weight models and 38 tasks show that multimodal ICL consistently underperforms text‑only ICL, with varying gaps by task family. Interventions targeting visual access, task framing, and reasoning can recover strong multimodal performance on a diagnostic subset, yet a modality gap remains even when explicit task instructions are provided, highlighting the dual role of demonstrations as context and evidence.

By Zihan Xue, Po-Yi Lu, Serhii Honcharenko, Zih-Ching Chen, Hsuan-Tien Lin, Nanyun Peng, I-Hung Hsu, Kuan-Hao Huang
arXiv Computation and Language
3d ago

Fusion Anything: A Generalized Multimodal Foundation Model

The paper introduces Fusion Anything Model (FAM), a foundation model designed for generalized multimodal data fusion that can handle arbitrary modality combinations and prediction tasks. FAM is trained on large-scale synthetic multimodal datasets generated via Structural Multimodal Causal Models (SMCMs), enabling it to encode transferable multimodal correlations. Experiments on 18 real-world datasets across 12 modalities and 11 tasks show that FAM performs competitively with specialized models without requiring task-specific adaptation.

By Huizi Cui, Zongbo Han, Chenggong Ding, Naichuan Xiao, Jialong Yang, Jingdong Chen, Guangyu Wang, Qinghua Hu, Changqing Zhang
arXiv AI
3d ago

UniEvo-VL: An On-policy Self-Distillation Training Recipe for Multimodal Model Self-improvement

UniEvo‑VL is a self‑evolving framework that lets multimodal models improve themselves by using their own critiques as privileged information. The method trains a single model to act as both teacher and student, minimizing divergence between their diffusion distributions over sampling trajectories. Experiments on Qwen‑image‑2512 show significant gains in image generation metrics, and stronger external critics further raise the improvement ceiling, though results vary across tasks.

By Fang Wu, Da Xing, Yanjie Huang, Junxi Wang, Ji Wang, Hejia Geng, Guancheng Wan, Bowen Zuo, Xiaomin Li, Shixiang Tang, Xinyu Xiang, Zehong Wang, Shiyi Du, Peng Xia, Shuangjia Zheng, Yining Hong, Li Erran Li, Jure Leskovec, Yejin Choi
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 15

V-ICAL Bench: Evaluating Video In-Context Learning for Multimodal Agents in Interactive Environments

arXiv:2609.15683v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While In-Context Learning (ICL) enables models to adapt from exemplars without parameter updates, multimodal ICL remains largely underexplored, particu...

By Ziqian Fan, Shibo Xu, Junjie Li, Xiangyu Zhao, Shengyuan Ding, Yifan Yang, Zhenjie Yang, Haodong Duan, Yue Zhou, Zhihang Zhong, Xue Yang