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:2512.04305v3 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP are increasingly adapted across decentralized data silos, yet the reliability of their predictions under...
By Mainak Singha, Masih Aminbeidokhti, Paolo Casari, Gianni Franchi, Elisa Ricci, Subhankar Roy
VTOS (Vision Tools Orchestration Search) is a framework that adaptively orchestrates vision foundation tools—such as open‑vocabulary detectors, segmentation models, and post‑processing operators—by jointly searching for executable solution programs and observer programs that diagnose failures and provide feedback. The observer programs feed observations into a shared VisionThoughts knowledge base, guiding subsequent searches. In two case studies—dense object counting on LVIS‑Count and zero‑shot plant‑disease segmentation on PlantSeg‑OOD—VTOS outperforms static tool pipelines and agentic visual‑programming baselines, especially in complex scenarios like dense, occluded scenes and out‑of‑distribution segmentation.
By Jinchao Ge, Lingqiao Liu, Shuwen Zhao, Lei Wang
arXiv:2607. 24354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automatic prompt optimization (APO) has been widely adopted to adapt vision-language models (VLMs) to downstream tasks without weight updates, yielding promising results.
By Haoyue Liu, Xiaoyu Ma, Ye Chen, Yuexian Zou, Xiaoying Tang
arXiv:2605. 21854v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have rapidly converged on a small set of architectural patterns: discrete-token autoregression (e.
By Zhi Liu
arXiv:2601. 22108v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Continued pretraining is optimized with fixed self-supervised tasks but selected by downstream performance, creating a coarse feedback loop in which practitioners evaluate checkpoints, change data mixtures or objectives, and restart runs, while individual updates remain blind to target capabilities.
By Shuqi Ke, Giulia Fanti
arXiv:2606. 08105v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: When attention concentrates on a single token, a sink, what is the model actually computing?
By Lukas Fesser, Mozes Jacobs, Thomas Fel, Andy Keller, Sham Kakade
arXiv:2605. 20306v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We introduce WildRoadBench, a wild aerial road-damage grounding benchmark that couples direct visual grounding by vision-language models with autonomous research-and-engineering by LLM-driven agents on a single professionally annotated UAV corpus.
By Bingnan Liu, Chenhang Cui, Rui Huang, Jiani Luo, Zhirong Shen, Tinghao Wang, Xiande Huang, Lingbei Meng, Fei Shen, An Zhang
arXiv:2604. 27720v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are increasingly applied to medical visual question answering (Med-VQA), yet whether they can \emph{localize} the evidence behind their answers---a prerequisite for clinical auditability---is poorly characterized.
By Xupeng Chen, Binbin Shi, Chenqian Le, Qifu Yin, Lang Lin, Haowei Ni, Ran Gong, Panfeng Li
arXiv:2606. 13156v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Letting a vision-language model (VLM) think longer at test time has driven much recent progress.
By Animesh Tripathy, Aswanth Krishnan
The paper introduces DARTS, a method for tuning decoder representations during model merging. It addresses representation bias in autoregressive decoders by using an entropy‑weighted L1 loss and a per‑position additive bias to correct errors that accumulate across token positions. Experiments on code generation, mathematical reasoning, and instruction following with Llama‑2‑7B show that DARTS improves performance over standard surgery while adding only 0.1% extra parameters.
By Aaryan Ajay Sharma, Sai Nishanth Padala, Seganrasan Subramanian
arXiv:2605. 21917v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Training Vision Language Models (VLMs) for video event reasoning requires high-quality structured annotations capturing not only what happened, but when, where, why, and with what consequence, at a scale manual labelling cannot support.
By Han Zhang, Wanting Jiang, Tomasz Kornuta, Tian Zheng, Vidya Murali