arXiv Machine Learning

Multimodal Concept Bottleneck Models

arXiv:2606. 19882v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) enhance the interpretability of deep learning networks by aligning the features extracted from images with natural concepts.

arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

MLLMCLIP: Feature-Level Distillation of MLLM for Robust Vision-Language Representations

MLLMCLIP introduces a heterogeneous distillation framework that transfers multimodal knowledge from a generative Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) teacher directly into a discriminative CLIP student, eliminating the need for synthetic hard negatives. The method uses an attention-based per-layer token selection and a CKA-based distillation loss to bridge architectural differences between the two models. As a result, MLLMCLIP achieves state‑of‑the‑art compositional accuracy and improves zero‑shot classification and image‑text retrieval performance.

By Jongsuk Kim, Qiyu Wu, Zhuoyuan Mao, Hiromi Wakaki, Junmo Kim, Yuki Mitsufuji
arXiv AI
Jun 26

Bridging Vision and Language Concepts through Optimal Transport Semantic Flow

arXiv:2606. 26891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Concept Bottleneck Models (CBMs) promise transparent reasoning by predicting through human-interpretable concepts, yet their effectiveness fundamentally depends on how well visual and textual representations are aligned or matched.

By Chenyang Zhang, Anqi Dong, Guangming Zhu, Nuoye Xiong, Siyuan Wang, Lin Mei, Liang Zhang
arXiv AI
Jun 8

MMBU: A Massive Multi-modal Biomedical Understanding Benchmark to Probe the Perception Capabilities of Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 06696v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision and language models (VLMs) hold immense promise to transform biomedical imaging workflows, from detecting lesions in chest X-rays to profiling cellular features in microscopy.

By Ryan D'Cunha, Alejandro Lozano, Xiaoxiao Sun, Daniel Vela Jarquin, Min Woo Sun, Josiah Aklilu, James Burgess, Yuhui Zhang, Ryan Nayebi, Paola Avila, Robayo, Jin Ye, Ming Hu, Zhongying Deng, Junjun He, Xin Chen, Yue Yao, Robert Tibshirani, Jeffrey J. Nirschl, Serena Yeung-Levy
arXiv AI
Jul 7

TORINO: Token Reduction via Interpretable Concept Overlap in Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2607. 04593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across different tasks, but their computational cost is dominated by the large number of visual tokens fed to the language model.

By Riccardo Renzulli, Gabriele Spadaro, Shruthi Gowda, Alaa Eddine Mazouz, Van-Tam Nguyen