arXiv:2606. 07953v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale Visual-Language Models (LVLMs) have achieved remarkable success in natural visual tasks, yet their application to industrial defect detection remains challenging due to two fundamental limitations: (i) the scarcity of large-scale industrial datasets that cover diverse defect categories across multiple domains, and (ii) the reliance on manual prompts (points, boxes, masks) that introduce subjective noise and lack text-visual interaction for fine-grained understanding.
By Zekai Zhang, Jinglin Zhang, Qinghui Chen, Gang Li, Da Chen, Shuainan Jing, He Wang, Dagang Li, Cong Liu, Cong Bai, Shengyong Chen
arXiv:2506.03828v4 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: AI for Industrial Asset Lifecycle Management aims to automate complex operational workflows, such as condition monitoring and maintenance schedulin...
By Dhaval Patel, Shuxin Lin, James Rayfield, Nianjun Zhou, Chathurangi Shyalika, Suryanarayana R Yarrabothula, Roman Vaculin, Natalia Martinez, Fearghal O'donncha, Jayant Kalagnanam
arXiv:2606. 10833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong performance on general multimodal reasoning benchmarks, yet their ability to perform engineering reasoning remains largely unexplored.
By Syed Wasiq, Syed Mohamad Tawseeq, Yashwant Pravinrao Bangde, Debaditya Roy
arXiv:2606. 20950v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Executable evaluation -- checking the consequences of an agent's actions with a program rather than grading its prose -- has become a prominent way to assess tool-using AI agents in software settings.
By Sergei Trashchenkov
arXiv:2607. 16243v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal industrial anomaly inspection assistants are a critical component of next-generation smart factories, enabling interactive vision-language-based querying.
By Anushiya Arunan, Xin Li, Yan Qin, U-Xuan Tan, Nhu Khue Vuong, Xiaoli Li, Chau Yuen
The paper examines how Vision Language Models (VLMs) can automatically extract structured procedural knowledge from industrial troubleshooting guides, which are typically flowchart-like diagrams combining spatial layout and technical language. It evaluates two VLMs using two prompting strategies—standard instruction-guided and an augmented approach that highlights layout patterns—and finds that each model shows different trade-offs between sensitivity to layout and robustness to semantic content. These insights help determine which VLM and prompting method is most suitable for integrating such guides into operator support systems.
By Guillermo Gil de Avalle, Laura Maruster, Christos Emmanouilidis
The paper introduces VLM-CAD, a workflow that uses Vision Language Models (VLMs) for analog circuit sizing while mitigating spatial blindness and logical hallucinations. It incorporates a neuro‑symbolic parsing module, Image2Net, to convert schematics into topological graphs and JSON, and an Explainable Trust Region Bayesian Optimization method, ExTuRBO, to guide design decisions with sensitivity evidence. Experiments on 12 sizing tasks across six circuits and four technology platforms show a Strict Pass@1 of 23.3% and a Relaxed Pass@1 of 91.7%.
By Guanyuan Pan, Shuai Wang, Yugui Lin, Tiansheng Zhou, Pietro Li\`o, Zhenxin Zhao, Yaqi Wang
arXiv:2607. 22385v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diagnosing the root cause of anomalies is essential for safe industrial operation.
By Amaury Wei, Olga Fink
Agentic systems entering production typically operate as partially integrated assemblies where structural defects, not task-level errors, dominate the failure landscape. At this maturity level, task-level error detection may be infeasible: structural failure modes mask the signal that task-level monitors are designed to detect.
The paper introduces Anomaly‑LR, a defect‑grounded latent reasoning framework for industrial anomaly detection that builds a global understanding of an image and then refines anomaly‑relevant representations directly in visual latent space. It also presents IAD‑LR‑22K, a new instruction dataset with 22,228 image‑question pairs and detailed annotations. Experiments demonstrate that Anomaly‑LR outperforms comparable‑scale methods on multiple IAD benchmarks without needing external references or tools.
By Jaron Yeh, Yen-Wei Chang, Jiang Liu, Shao-Yuan Lo
arXiv:2607. 15418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce DrawingVQA, the first benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on real-world construction drawings -- a core media in architecture, civil, and many other engineering practices.
By Yoonhwa Jung, Junryu Fu, Mani Golparvar-Fard
arXiv:2507. 09562v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The Segment Anything Model (SAM) has transformed image segmentation by introducing a prompt-based paradigm that enables strong zero-shot generalization.
By Yidong Jiang, Jiangtong Li, Daiwei Cheng