arXiv AI

Robust-U1: Can MLLMs Self-Recover Corrupted Visual Content for Robust Understanding?

arXiv:2606. 08063v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in visual understanding, yet their performance degrades significantly under real-world visual corruptions.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 24

UVU: Improving Multimodal Understanding via Vision-Language Unified Autoregressive Paradigm

UVU is a vision-language unified autoregressive framework that integrates visual supervision directly into the pre-training stage of multimodal large language models. By using continuous visual encoding and a large-scale iterative hierarchical clustering algorithm to build a pixel-level visual codebook, UVU enables lossless representation of visual inputs and autoregressive generation of pixel-level image tokens alongside textual tokens. This approach synergizes pixel-level visual perception with semantic-level visual understanding, allowing models to internalize visual reconstruction capabilities and improve multimodal understanding performance.

By Zhehan Kan, Xinghua Jiang, Yubo Zhu, Yanlin Liu, Xiaochen Yang, Zhixiang Wei, Shifeng Liu, Qingmin Liao, Wenming Yang, Xin Li, Yinsong Liu, Deqiang Jiang, Xing Sun
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4

Failure-Informed Image Self-Augmentation for Multimodal Large Language Model Self-Improvement

Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across vision-language tasks, but their progress depends heavily on large-scale, high-quality multimodal data that are costly to annotate. Self-augmentation offers a promising alternative by enabling models to expand their own training data without external supervision.

arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 1

ClearText-Video: A Large-Scale Text-Centric Video Dataset Bridging Video Restoration and Scene-Text Enhancement

ClearText-Video (CTVid) is a large-scale, scene-text-aware benchmark that examines text-centric video understanding under varying quality conditions. It comprises 4,639 real-world egocentric videos, over 550,000 frames, 1.6 million human-verified scene-text annotations, and more than 220,000 spatial/temporal question–answer pairs in Chinese and English. For each high-quality video, CTVid provides matched degraded- and restored-quality variants, enabling studies of Text-Centric Video Restoration and Multi-Quality VideoQA, and revealing that visual enhancement does not always improve textual fidelity or downstream reasoning.

By Jinlong Li, Jiaming Ding, Dingfu Lu, Malcolm Hsiu, Chuang Ke, Kangning Yang, Bochen Guan, Lan Fu, Jie Cai, Huiming Sun, Zibo Meng
arXiv AI
Aug 5

Failure-Informed Image Self-Augmentation for Multimodal Large Language Model Self-Improvement

arXiv:2608. 03733v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable performance across vision-language tasks, but their progress depends heavily on large-scale, high-quality multimodal data that are costly to annotate.

By Chunyang Jiang, Pingping Zhang, Yuzhi Zhao, Wenao Ma, Zhijian Hou, Mengyang Wu, Yiyang Cai, Senkang Hu, Sitong Cheng, Chi-Min Chan, Wei Xue, Yike Guo
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 24

How Robust is OCR-Reasoning? Evaluating OCR-Reasoning Robustness of Vision-Language Models under Visual Perturbations

Vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved strong performance on OCR-based benchmarks and increasingly focused on text-rich understanding, but their robustness under controlled visual degradation remains insufficiently understood. This gap is critical for OCR reasoning, where visual corruption can induce OCR errors and structural distortions, thereby introducing uncertainty into the reasoning task.