arXiv:2508. 12466v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional multimodal learning approaches rely on alignment pre-training to bridge vision and language modalities, typically by projecting visual features into discrete text token spaces using large-scale image--text data.
By Xuhui Zhan, Tyler Derr
arXiv:2606. 13289v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Holistic visual tokenizers are fundamental to unified multimodal models (UMMs) as they map diverse visual inputs into a unified representation space.
By Guozhen Zhang, Xuerui Qiu, Yutao Cui, Tianhui Song, Changlin Li, Junzhe Li, Tao Huang, Xiao Zhang, Yang Li, Jianbing Wu, Miles Yang, Zhao Zhong, Liefeng Bo, Limin Wang
arXiv:2606. 29888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models map images and text into a joint embedding space.
By Chungpa Lee, Jihoon Kwon, Kyle Min, Jy-yong Sohn
arXiv:2606. 13288v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Contrastively trained vision-language models like CLIP, have made remarkable progress in learning joint image-text representations, but still face challenges in compositional understanding.
By Wei Li, Zhen Huang, Xinmei Tian
arXiv:2603. 05997v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Irregularly sampled time series (ISTS) are widespread in real-world scenarios, exhibiting asynchronous observations on uneven time intervals across diverse variables.
By Zhi Lei, Chenxi Liu, Hao Miao, Wanghui Qiu, Bin Yang, Chenjuan Guo
arXiv:2603. 01471v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal embedding models, rooted in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), have yielded significant performance improvements across diverse tasks such as retrieval and classification.
By Jiahan Chen, Da Li, Hengran Zhang, Yinqiong Cai, Lixin Su, Jiafeng Guo, Daiting Shi, Dawei Yin, Keping Bi
arXiv:2603. 01471v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal embedding models, rooted in multimodal large language models (MLLMs), have yielded significant performance improvements across diverse tasks such as retrieval and classification.
By Jiahan Chen, Da Li, Hengran Zhang, Yinqiong Cai, Lixin Su, Jiafeng Guo, Daiting Shi, Dawei Yin, Keping Bi
arXiv:2511. 01390v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Fine-grained cross-modal alignment aims to establish precise local correspondences between vision and language, forming a cornerstone for visual question answering and related multimodal applications.
By Xinyu Mao, Junsi Li, Haoji Zhang, Yu Liang, Ming Sun
arXiv:2607. 16305v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved strong progress in multimodal understanding.
By Zeyu Xu, Xingzhong Hou, Pengkai Guo, Siling Lin, Xiao Xu, Menghua Zhai, Haoyu Chen, Yunke Zhang, Fei Huang
arXiv:2602. 07026v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite the success of multimodal contrastive learning in aligning visual and linguistic representations, a persistent geometric anomaly, the Modality Gap, remains: embeddings of distinct modalities expressing identical semantics occupy systematically offset regions.
By Xiaomin Yu, Yi Xin, Yuhui Zhang, Wenjie Zhang, Chonghan Liu, Hanzhen Zhao, Chen Liu, Xiaoxing Hu, Ziyue Qiao, Hao Tang, Xiaobin Hu, Chengwei Qin, Hui Xiong, Yu Qiao, Shuicheng Yan
arXiv:2608. 11343v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal retrieval and classification across different types of media, spanning text, images,video and audio, has traditionally relied on dual-encoder models that align visual and textual representations through contrastive learning.
By Archan Dutta, Vyanktesh Kanungo
arXiv:2607. 16789v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Real-world perception and decision making are inherently multimodal, integrating complementary signals across modalities.
By Sana Tonekaboni, Viktoria Schuster, Caroline Uhler