arXiv:2608.22429v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) capable of thinking with images often rely on external tools for fine-grained perception. However, this relian...
By Changjiang Jiang, Qiannian Zhao, Lei Xin, Jinxiang Xie, Preslav Nakov, Zhuohan Xie
arXiv:2608. 04726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models increasingly reason over screenshots and documents where the task itself may be written in pixels.
By Yongxin Wang, Ruizhe Zhou, Yueling Tang, Yingying Zhu, Xuemin Zhao, Xiaojun Chang, Xiaodan Liang
arXiv:2601.19060v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Multimodal Retrieval-Augmented Generation (MM-RAG) augments visual question answering (VQA) with external knowledge, but many systems rely on...
By Jeonghwan Kim, Renjie Tao, Sanat Sharma, Jiaqi Wang, Kai Sun, Zhaojiang Lin, Seungwhan Moon, Lambert Mathias, Anuj Kumar, Heng Ji, Xin Luna Dong
Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering (KI-VQA) benchmarks evaluate Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as multimodal knowledge assistants by requiring external information beyond a provided image to answer questions. KI-VQA involves multiple sub-problems -referring expression understanding, visual grounding, object recognition, knowledge retrieval, and reasoning-yet existing benchmarks typically report only end-task accuracy, obscuring where failures arise.
arXiv:2610.02117v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: On-policy self-distillation has recently emerged as an effective approach for improving language-model reasoning by supervising students with a froze...
By Sophia Sirko-Galouchenko, Monika Wysoczanska, Andrei Bursuc, Nicolas Thome, Spyros Gidaris
arXiv:2607. 05798v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have evolved from static perception to interleaved visual-language reasoning, often referred to as ``thinking with images''.
By Yake Wei, Yuan Wang, Fengyun Rao, Jing Lyu, Di Hu
The paper introduces LHSDet, a detector for AI‑generated images that treats detection as a visual question answering task. It employs a triple‑branch architecture: a low‑level visual branch for local texture cues, a high‑level visual branch using SigLIP2 for global perception, and a semantic‑level textual branch that generates captions with BLIP‑2. Experiments show that LHSDet achieves strong accuracy and robustness across various generative models.
By Qian Yao, Luming Yang, Jun-Jie Huang, Yongjun Wang, Xinwang Liu, Meng Wang
arXiv:2607. 11862v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current Video Large Language Models (Video LLMs) excel in question answering (QA) but largely operate as black boxes, providing textual answers without verifiable visual grounding.
By Shijie Wang, Honglu Zhou, Ziyang Wang, Ran Xu, Caiming Xiong, Silvio Savarese, Chen Sun, Juan Carlos Niebles
arXiv:2609.13228v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) should rely on visual evidence that directly determines the correct answer, but supervision for grounding visual reasonin...
By Marko Jojic, Zhaonan Li, Ben Zhou
Recent advancements in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have evolved from static perception to interleaved visual-language reasoning, often referred to as ``thinking with images''. A basic operation in this reasoning process is to zoom in on regions of interest (often represented with bounding boxes) to acquire finer visual details.
arXiv:2607. 21155v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering (KI-VQA) benchmarks evaluate Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as multimodal knowledge assistants by requiring external information beyond a provided image to answer questions.
By Hanseok Oh, Parishad BehnamGhader, Benno Krojer, Hyunji Lee, Paul Liang, Siva Reddy, Verna Dankers
MagiC is a benchmark for grounded multimodal cognition that evaluates vision‑language models on answer accuracy, step‑by‑step reasoning quality, grounding fidelity, and self‑correction. It contains about 5,500 weakly supervised QA examples generated from strong model outputs and 900 human‑curated examples with fine‑grained annotations, including rationales and bounding box groundings. The benchmark tests 15 models ranging from 7B to 70B parameters, introduces new metrics such as MagiScore and StepSense, and includes diagnostic settings to probe robustness against adversarial visual cues and introspective error correction.
By Chengfei Wu, Ronald Seoh, Bingxuan Li, Liqiang Zhang, Fengrong Han, Dan Goldwasser