The survey "From Models to Systems: A Comprehensive Survey of Efficient Multimodal Learning" reviews over 300 works on efficient multimodal learning (EML), proposing a structured taxonomy that spans model, algorithm, and system layers. It synthesizes how cross‑layer co‑design addresses the Efficiency‑Utility‑Privacy trade‑off and illustrates this through a case study of multimodal large language models. The paper also offers optimization blueprints for various domains, discusses a shift toward self‑regulating intelligence, and outlines open challenges for future EML research.
arXiv:2606. 12688v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We are entering a new era of composite model architectures that integrate diverse components such as vision encoders, language backbones, diffusion and flow heads, audio codecs, action generators, and world-model predictors.
arXiv:2605. 25451v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Training multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is challenged by both model and data heterogeneity.
arXiv:2608. 15516v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in multimodal understanding and generation.
arXiv:2409. 06067v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Previous studies on federated learning (FL) often encounter performance degradation due to data heterogeneity among different clients.
The paper surveys how large multimodal models (LMMs) enhance agentic frameworks that combine perception, memory, reasoning, planning, and action. It examines the integration of multiple modalities—text, images, audio, and video—through delegated, late‑fusion, and early‑fusion architectures, and maps these designs to agent capabilities. The survey also reviews multimodal agentic systems in robotics, web navigation, multimedia content creation, and video understanding, evaluating performance, efficiency, and scalability trade‑offs.
Existing scaling strategies for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) typically expand either model parameters or sequential inference computation, incurring substantial memory or latency overhead. More importantly, most existing methods fail to alter the rigid, fixed computation allocation between the Vision Transformer and the Large Language Model components, limiting task-specific optimization.
arXiv:2503. 06211v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-pretrained language models (LMs) encode rich world knowledge, but adapting them to process and generate perceptual modalities such as audio and images while effectively leveraging that knowledge remains challenging.
arXiv:2507. 16518v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown impressive reasoning capabilities.
arXiv:2608.23268v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Frontier multimodal large language models (MLLMs) deliver impressive perception yet still falter on scientific and mathematical reasoning. Parameter-le...
arXiv:2608. 05000v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision offers a critical axis for advancing foundation models, driving a shift towards natively unified multimodal pretraining.
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.
arXiv:2607. 06839v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing NAS benchmarks (e.