The paper presents a method for adapting a single vision‑language model, Qwen3.5‑9B, to medical image parsing tasks by using task‑specific low‑rank adapters (LoRA) selected from the input question. The system employs a frozen 4‑bit backbone and customizes adapter ranks, prompts, and class rebalancing across six task families and seven imaging modalities, achieving strong performance on the FLARE 2026 Task 3 dataset and a hidden‑validation set. The authors provide code and demonstrate that task‑specific adapter configurations and image budgets improve performance across diverse medical imaging tasks.
By Taha Sabir, Alberto Montero Molina, Thinh Quang Ly, Veronika Dmitrenko, Mohammad Yaqub, Tausifa Jan Saleem
The paper evaluates federated learning with Low‑Rank Adaptation (LoRA) for fine‑tuning the BiomedCLIP vision‑language model on chest X‑ray classification across four international cohorts. Federated LoRA improves shared‑class AUC from 0.687 to 0.802, outperforming isolated single‑cohort training and approaching a centralized reference. The study shows that SVD‑based product‑space aggregation (FlexLoRA) is crucial for performance, while FedProx offers no advantage over FedAvg in this setting.
By Sanjaya Poudel, Nirajan Kunwor, Manish Dhakal, Debesh Jha, Sunil Kumar Gaire
arXiv:2511.22232v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly capable in medical imaging, yet most focus on single-image settings. Clinical inter...
By Zhen Chen, Yihang Fu, Rong Zhou, Serina Applebaum, Min Kyu Kim, Aidan Gilson, Morten Lee, Salahudeen Mirza, Gabriel Madera, Mauro Giuffre, Yuanting Pan, Roy Jiang, Hyunjae Kim, Hua Xu, Qingyu Chen
arXiv:2607. 20641v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated learning (FL) enables multiple clinical institutions to collaboratively train a shared disease classifier without centralizing patient data.
By Afsaneh Mahanipour, Hana Khamfroush
arXiv:2607. 11839v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper presents a cascaded Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA)-based multimodal fusion framework for action and activity recognition in healthcare-oriented training environments.
By Divya Mereddy, Jeevan Beedareddy
arXiv:2605.07111v3 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Recent literature on fine-tuning Large Language Models highlights a fundamental debate. While Full Fine-Tuning (FFT) provides greater represe...
By Haozhan Tang, Xiuqi Zhu, Xinyin Zhang, Boxun Li, Virginia Smith, Kevin Kuo
Vision-language models (VLMs) such as CLIP enable zero-shot classification by comparing image features with text prompts in a shared embedding space. A fundamental property underlying this capability is the global comparability of logits across arbitrary candidate classes.
This paper presents a cascaded Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA)-based multimodal fusion framework for action and activity recognition in healthcare-oriented training environments. The proposed architecture combines parameter-efficient modality-specific adaptation with sequential fusion, enabling modalities to be integrated in stages without retraining previously learned components.
arXiv:2607. 24743v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) hold immense potential to revolutionize clinical practice, yet deploying them in the medical domain is fundamentally a vision-centric challenge: models must absorb knowledge from heterogeneous 2D and 3D medical images, and evaluation protocols must align with radiologists' clinical practice and provide an accurate, fine-grained and factualness-driven assessment.
By Hangjie Yuan, Yichen Qian, Zhiwei Tang, Xianzhe Xu, Lirong Wu, Sicheng Yang, Jinwang Wang, Pengju Wang, Zhitao Zeng, Yizeng Han, Yan Xing, Shengxuan Luo, Tao Feng, Qing Xie, Weigen Yao, Yi Yang, Zuozhu Liu, Jiasheng Tang, Shaocheng Wang, Jitao Wang, Jiahong Dong, Weihua Chen, Feng Xu, Fan Wang
arXiv:2606. 01717v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Instruction tuning aligns large language models, including multimodal ones, with diverse user intents, but scaling to heterogeneous mixtures is hindered by gradient interference and bandwidth-heavy synchronization.
By Minsik Choi, Geewook Kim
arXiv:2607. 17467v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Few-shot Test-Time Domain Adaptation (FSTT-DA) seeks to adapt models to novel domains using only a handful of unlabeled target samples.
By Siobhan Reid, Zhixiang Chi, Li Gu, Omid Reza Heidari, Ziqiang Wang, Yang Wang
arXiv:2610.09907v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown strong performance across a wide range of downstream vision tasks, thanks to the complementary information con...
By Ankita Das, Ambarish Parthasarathy, Sumohana S. Channappayya, C. Krishna Mohan