arXiv AI

Forewarned is Forearmed: When Non-Sequential Embedding Turns Into an Anomaly Detector

arXiv:2606. 30196v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This paper offers an in-depth analysis of non-sequential multimodal sentence-level embeddings, with a particular focus on the SONAR model.

arXiv AI
Aug 5

From Generator to Embedder: Harnessing Innate Abilities of Multimodal LLMs via Building Zero-Shot Discriminative Embedding Model

arXiv:2508. 00955v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Adapting generative Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) into universal embedding models typically demands resource-intensive contrastive pre-training, while traditional hard negative mining methods suffer from severe false negative contamination.

By Yeong-Joon Ju, Seong-Whan Lee
arXiv AI
2d ago

What's the Catch? Evaluating Temporal Consistency in Vision-Language Models

The paper introduces TimeCatch, a benchmark that evaluates temporal consistency in vision‑language models (VLMs) by treating temporal grounding as an anomaly detection problem. Temporal anomalies are created by swapping consecutive frames, while frame‑level anomalies involve replacing a frame with Gaussian noise. Across synthetic and real‑world datasets, VLMs reliably detect and localize frame‑level anomalies but perform near chance on temporal anomaly detection, whereas humans excel at both tasks.

By Marek Hradil, Danae S\'anchez Villegas