arXiv:2602. 00593v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite progress on general tasks, vision-language models (VLMs) still struggle with challenges that demand both fine-grained visual grounding and external knowledge, a synergy overlooked by existing benchmarks that evaluate these abilities in isolation.
By Yifan Jiang, Cong Zhang, Bofei Zhang, Qiaofeng Zheng, Yifan Yang, Bingzhang Wang, Yew-Soon Ong
arXiv:2607. 01813v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Evaluation benchmarks are essential for assessing vision-language models (VLMs), but most multimodal benchmarks are static, making them vulnerable to temporal staleness, data contamination, and costly maintenance.
By Yuanzhi Liu, Shousheng Zhao, Bo Zhou, Kongming Liang, Zhanyu Ma
arXiv:2607. 07179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) presents a complex multimodal challenge, requiring models to exploit visual, textual, and layout information from documents.
By Miguel Lopez-Duran, Elena Marrero, Julian Fierrez, Marta Robledo-Moreno, Ruben Vera-Rodriguez, Daniel DeAlcala, Aythami Morales, Ruben Tolosana, Oscar Delgado, Alvaro Ortigosa, Javier Ortega-Garcia
arXiv:2607. 16165v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human vision is a closed loop: gaze is continuously redirected by intermediate hypotheses rather than a single snapshot.
By Jiarui Zhang, Muzi Tao, Shangshang Wang, Ollie Liu, Xuezhe Ma, Willie Neiswanger
arXiv:2502. 00241v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Incorporating multiple modalities into large language models (LLMs) is a powerful way to enhance their understanding of non-textual data, enabling them to perform multimodal tasks.
By Shiqi He, Insu Jang, Mosharaf Chowdhury
arXiv:2606. 16082v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been increasingly adopted for Image Quality Assessment (IQA).
By Guanyi Qin, Junjie Zhang, Chunming He, Yibing Fu, Jie Liang, Tianhe Wu, Lei Zhang
arXiv:2608. 11907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Large Vision-Language Models increasingly aim to integrate visual generation and understanding within a single parameter space, evaluating such structural unification in a cohesive manner remains a critical challenge.
By Hao Zhang, Jiaxin Qi, Zhijiang Tang, Jianqiang Huang
arXiv:2606. 03273v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Visual DeepSearch tasks require multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to resolve complex visual queries by repeatedly inspecting image regions, grounding reasoning in visual evidence, and connecting fine-grained clues across multiple steps.
By Hang He, Chuhuai Yue, Chengqi Dong, Chengcheng Wan, Ting Su, Haiying Sun, Jiajun Chai, Xiaohan Wang, Guojun Yin
Document Visual Question Answering (DocVQA) presents a complex multimodal challenge, requiring models to exploit visual, textual, and layout information from documents. Although Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable performance in text-vision tasks, their robustness and transferability to different document domains remains underexplored.
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:2608. 01664v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present our ImageCLEF 2026 Multimodal Reasoning system for the Visual Multiple Choice Question Answering (Visual MCQ) and Visual Open Question Answering (Visual OpenQA) subtasks.
By Mohamed Basem, Vincent Christlein
arXiv:2602. 18094v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing Visual-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved significant progress by being trained on massive-scale datasets, typically under the assumption that data are independent and identically distributed (IID).
By Ling Lin, Yang Bai, Heng Su, Congcong Zhu, Yaoxing Wang, Yang Zhou, Huazhu Fu, Jingrun Chen