arXiv AI

PRISM: Priority-aware Rubric Internalization via Structured Multimodal Data Synthesis

arXiv:2608. 05249v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Real-world multimodal instructions often bundle multiple requirements with unequal importance, yet most multimodal training data still reduce instruction following to answering one self-contained question.

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 27

VISA: Agentic Self-Evolving Data Synthesis for Multimodal Instruction Following

VISA (Visual Instruction Synthesis Agent) is an agentic framework that transforms multimodal instruction synthesis into a self‑evolving loop. Each cycle analyzes images to filter constraints, samples new constraint sets, generates candidate instructions, and verifies them using executable tools and large language model judges. Failed samples trigger diagnostic recovery, while accepted samples are evaluated against the target model to estimate difficulty, with all feedback written back to memory to adapt future rounds and provide reward signals for reinforcement learning.

By Min Zeng, Guanxin Tan, Libin Cen, Yawei Wen, Rui Hu, Liuyang Bian, Xiaolong Chen, Xiaoxin Chen
arXiv AI
2d ago

MMMG: a Comprehensive and Reliable Benchmark for Multitask Multimodal Generation

arXiv:2505.17613v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Automatically evaluating multimodal generation presents a significant challenge, as automated metrics often struggle to align with human evaluation...

By Jihan Yao, Yushi Hu, Wenyuan Wang, Bin Han, Shangbin Feng, Guang Yang, Yujie Yi, Bingbing Wen, Ranjay Krishna, Lucy Lu Wang, Yulia Tsvetkov, Noah A. Smith, Banghua Zhu
arXiv Computer Vision
Aug 27

Video-IFBench: Evaluating Instruction Following of Multimodal LLMs in Video Understanding Scenarios

Video-IFBench is a new benchmark designed to evaluate how well multimodal large language models (MLLMs) follow user-specified instructions in video understanding tasks. It introduces an instruction taxonomy with four templates—single-task, multi-task, selection, and nested—covering 32 task types and 39 constraint categories that span semantic and format requirements. The benchmark was built using a semi-automatic pipeline that combines MLLMs, programmatic processing, and human verification, producing 1.5K samples, and a large-scale evaluation of over 20 recent MLLMs shows that instruction following remains difficult, especially for complex constraints and conditional structures.

By Hongbo Liu, Peixian Chen, Sihan Liu, Peiyuan Zhang, Kai Zou, Dian Zheng, Xiaoxing Hu, Yuhao Dong, Mengdan Zhang, Yunhang Shen, Haoyu Cao, Wei Liu, Weibo Gu, Xing Sun, Shengjie Zhao
arXiv AI
2d ago

Selection-Based Structured Reasoning: Toward Efficient Multimodal Search Agents

arXiv:2610.01892v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal agents commonly generate free-form reasoning before each action. For small models, limited model capacity can result in lengthy reasoning...

By Feiyu Gavin Zhu, Xiaoyu Zhu, Jiqi Yang, Rui Yang, Arnab Kumar Mondal, Yancheng Wang, Xinke Deng, Jean Oh, Reid Simmons, Joerg Liebelt, Xiang Kong, Zhongyu Jiang
arXiv AI
Sep 7

MM-IFEval-Pro: A Multilingual and Attack-Resistant Benchmark for Instruction-Following in Vision-Language Models

MM-IFEval-Pro is a new multilingual benchmark for evaluating instruction-following in vision-language models, covering both Chinese and English tasks. It includes 4 major task categories, 24 subcategories, and 8 instruction categories with 52 subcategories, each sample featuring an average of 3.0 constraints to mimic complex instruction scenarios. A reinforcement-learning training set with Chinese and adversarial instructions improves model performance on MM-IFEval-Pro and transfers well to other multimodal benchmarks, showing strong cross-task and cross-language generalization.

By Changming Xiao, Zhenliang Ni, Jinhui He, Han Shu, Jie Hu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 25

SyncLoop: A Multimodal Dual-Loop Framework for Self-Improving Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2507. 16518v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown impressive reasoning capabilities.

By Xiuwei Chen, Wentao Hu, Hanhui Li, Yongxin Wang Jun Zhou, Zisheng Chen, Meng Cao, Yihan Zeng, Kui Zhang, Yu-Jie Yuan, Jianhua Han, Hang Xu, Xiaodan Liang
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 11

InterleaveThinker: Reinforcing Agentic Interleaved Generation

Recent image generators have demonstrated impressive photorealism and instruction-following capabilities in single-image generation and editing. However, constrained by their architectures, they cannot achieve interleaved generation (text-image sequence), which has crucial applications in visual narratives, guidance, and embodied manipulation.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 3

VCIFBench: Evaluating Complex Instruction Following for Video Understanding

Multimodal large language models have made rapid progress in video understanding, yet existing benchmarks largely rely on simple prompts and provide limited evidence about whether models can satisfy explicit output constraints. We introduce VCIFBench, a benchmark for evaluating complex instruction following in video understanding.