arXiv:2608. 10195v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human vision organizes what it sees into wholes: same-colored points group into series, similar marks cohere into categories, and shapes complete into recognizable objects.
By Sudhanva Manjunath Athreya, Sai Phani Kumar Malladi
arXiv:2608. 11537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Generative semantic segmentation exposes structured predictions as images, but direct color decoding is susceptible to color drift and boundary mixing, whereas latent-feature decoders that predict a separate output distribution may relegate the rendered image to an intermediate visualization.
By Weize Cai, Yongqi Dong, Zhida Shao, Zixin Fu
arXiv:2608. 15425v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on high-level multimodal tasks, yet numerosity perception, a cognitive ability that emerges in human infants before language acquisition, remains poorly understood in current models, as existing counting benchmarks entangle numerosity with correlated visual factors.
By Yiming Fu, Fangjun Li, Xiujin Liu, Ruidong Ma, Hang Yu, Zhichen Lu, Kanwei He, Alessandro Di Nuovo, Angelo Cangelosi, Zhegong Shangguan
arXiv:2608. 14286v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision language models (VLMs) are increasingly used in industrial decision-making systems, such as recruitment support and recommendation.
By Kohsuke Ide, Ryousuke Yamada, Yoshihiro Fukuhara, Hirokatsu Kataoka, Yutaka Satoh
arXiv:2606. 23885v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Representation alignment has emerged as an effective approach to improve Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) by regularizing their internal representations toward those of an external vision encoder.
By Davide Caffagni, Alberto Compagnoni, Federico Melis, Sara Sarto, Pier Luigi Dovesi, Mark Granroth-Wilding, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi
arXiv:2603. 13994v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision foundation models trained with self-supervised objectives achieve strong performance across diverse tasks and exhibit emergent object segmentation properties.
By Hossein Adeli, Seoyoung Ahn, Andrew Luo, Mengmi Zhang, Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Gregory Zelinsky
arXiv:2606. 24716v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Sparse autoencoders (SAEs) are increasingly used to extract interpretable concepts from vision and vision language models, yet existing evaluation methods largely rely on proxy metrics or qualitative inspection rather than measuring semantic correspondence.
By Jonas Klotz, Cassio F. Dantas, Pallavi Jain, Diego Marcos, Beg\"um Demir
arXiv:2605. 20448v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models reliably name objects in a scene, but do they represent the 3D layout those objects inhabit?
By Animesh Maheshwari, Divyansh Sahu, Nishit Verma
arXiv:2608. 15736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Foundation models (FMs) increasingly support multimodal and geospatial reasoning, yet it remains unclear whether cartographic principles designed for human perception are equally effective for machines.
By Yonghe Sun, Zhenjia Liu, Hua Liao, Wenjia Xu, Nai Yang, Weihua Dong, Zhiwei Wei
Vision-language models commonly project all tokens produced by a pretrained vision encoder into a large language model. However, final-layer features can discard text, local attributes, and spatial relationships, while high-resolution inputs substantially increase context length and inference latency.
arXiv:2607. 18237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human visual similarity judgments are context-dependent.
By Sheng-Yu Wang, Yotam Nitzan, Aaron Hertzmann, Jun-Yan Zhu, Eli Shechtman, Alexei A. Efros, Richard Zhang
arXiv:2607. 18695v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A popular route to interpretable zero-shot classification asks a large language model (LLM) to describe each class name and prompts CLIP with the resulting descriptors.
By Gautam Rajendrakumar Gare, Jia Shi, Zhiqiu Lin, Deepak Pathak, John Galeotti, Deva Ramanan