arXiv AI

Efficient Multimodal Generative Recommendation with Latent Narrative Reasoning

arXiv AI
Sep 3

DocHop: Benchmarking Out-of-domain Multi-hop Reasoning in Information-Dense Documents

DocHop is a new benchmark that tests multimodal large language models on integrated chart‑context reasoning within document‑style images. The benchmark presents narrative text that imposes multi‑step compositional constraints, while charts supply the data needed to answer questions grounded in semantic reference labels. It contains 2,074 examples across six task categories, generated via a stochastic logic‑first pipeline that controls reasoning depth and visual density, and shows a large performance gap between humans (over 90% accuracy) and the best models (62.83%).

By Zhuoran Yu, Le Thien Phuc Nguyen, Jaden Park, Xinyi Gu, Zexue He, Soochahn Lee, Rogerio Feris, Yong Jae Lee
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 11

Order Matters: LVLMs as Judges for Temporal Reasoning in Image Sequences

As generative multimedia evolves from static image synthesis to complex, interleaved visual narratives, a foundational bottleneck has emerged: the judgment crisis. While human perception naturally synthesizes the temporal and logical flow of a story, automated evaluation systems remain largely "blind" to sequential continuity, often failing to distinguish between a coherent narrative and a semantically shuffled or contradictory sequence.

arXiv AI
Jun 12

Bridging Modal Isolation in Interleaved Thinking: Supervising Modality Transitions via Stepwise Reinforcement

arXiv:2606. 12886v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Interleaved thinking, where a unified multimodal model alternates between textual reasoning and visual generation, has shown promise on spatial and physical tasks.

By Tingyu Li, Le Zhou, Siyuan Li, Yujun Wu, Xinglong Xu, Jingxuan Wei, Conghui He, Cheng Tan
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 11

Bridging Modal Isolation in Interleaved Thinking: Supervising Modality Transitions via Stepwise Reinforcement

Interleaved thinking, where a unified multimodal model alternates between textual reasoning and visual generation, has shown promise on spatial and physical tasks. However, in complex long-chain scenarios, we identify a fundamental failure mode: generated images diverge from the textual context while subsequent text ignores the visual evidence, causing the two modalities to alternate without genuinely informing each other.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

Beyond Chain-of-Thought: Rewrite as a Universal Interface for Generative Multimodal Embeddings

arXiv:2604.22280v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have emerged as a promising foundation for universal multimodal embeddings. Recent studies have shown that...

By Peixi Wu, Ke Mei, Feipeng Ma, Bosong Chai, Zhibin Lan, Chenxi Zhao, Shannan Yan, Jie Chen, Zhangchi Hu, Yansong Peng, Bo Lin, Junjie Zhou, Dacheng Yin, Tianyi Wang, Fengyun Rao, Jing Lyu, Hebei Li, Xiaoyan Sun
arXiv AI
Jun 12

ReFoCUS: Reinforcement-guided Frame Optimization for Contextual Understanding

arXiv:2506. 01274v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress in Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) has enabled effective vision-language reasoning, yet the ability to video understanding remains constrained by suboptimal frame selection strategies, albeit with the rapid development of video-specialized LMMs.

By Hosu Lee, Junho Kim, Hyunjun Kim, Yong Man Ro
arXiv AI
Jul 8

Prompt-Adapter Context Routing for Parameter-Efficient Multi-Shot Long Video Extrapolation

arXiv:2607. 06481v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present PACR-Video, a parameter-efficient framework for multi-shot long video extrapolation that preserves recurring entities, scene structure, visual style, and causal progression without full generator fine-tuning.

By Anna C\'ordoba, Adam Puente Tercero, Nerea Angulo Hijo, Mar Linares Tercero, Julia Barrientos, Ainhoa Miranda, Jes\'us Olivera
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 7

Latent-Aligned Reasoning for Multimodal Recommendation

The paper introduces LARK, a two‑stage latent reasoning framework designed to mitigate cross‑modal dilution in multimodal recommendation systems. In the first stage, learnable latent tokens are interleaved with chain‑of‑thought reasoning and aligned with a frozen vision encoder to preserve visual details. The second stage projects these latent representations through a bridge MLP, employing item‑to‑item contrastive learning and aligning intermediate features with the first‑stage hidden states to anchor final embeddings to the model’s reasoning output. Experiments on three public benchmarks and an industrial dataset demonstrate that LARK achieves state‑of‑the‑art performance across multiple recommendation architectures, with ablation studies confirming the contribution of each component.

By Jiarui Jin, Anyang Ji