arXiv:2606. 14507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning vision-language models to emit dense coordinate lists improves visual grounding but also changes how models serialize, repeat, and terminate structured outputs.
arXiv:2609.18084v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Fine-tuning a Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model for a new deployment environment is expensive, yet most methods apply uniform-capacity adapters to e...
arXiv:2610.27698v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models transfer knowledge from large-scale pretraining into robot control, but their manipulation performance remains se...
FAVE (Foveated Adaptive Visual Encoding) is a lightweight, variable‑resolution Vision Transformer that encodes user‑selected image regions at high acuity while maintaining the image’s native geometry. In controlled experiments on small‑object ImageNet crops, FAVE outperforms a fixed‑resolution ViT by 9.4 top‑1 points while using 12.7× fewer FLOPs. When added as a local branch to FastVLM, FAVE improves TextVQA by 1.60 points and GQA attribute accuracy by 1.31 points, achieving a 3.3× speedup over SmolVLM2-2.2B with only 16 extra local tokens.
arXiv:2609.38485v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) train image understanding and autoregressive image generation on shared parameters, and the two objectives are known t...
arXiv:2607. 10172v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Deploying billion-parameter Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models on industrial hardware requires fine-tuning to bridge the embodiment gap.
arXiv:2610.24619v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Visual accuracy, geometric validity, and agreement with applied forces are distinct requirements for visual dynamics. We introduce a diagnostic fra...
arXiv:2606. 30344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual classifiers can achieve high matched-distribution accuracy while relying on low-level cues that fail under conflict or suppression.
arXiv:2609.23012v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative vision-language models (VLMs) offer a counting paradigm in which one model produces both a count and a natural-language account of the scene...
arXiv:2606. 12105v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language-action (VLA) models inherit a shared synchronous clock from vision-language pretraining, processing every input at one rate.
arXiv:2506. 01850v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable success in instruction-following tasks by integrating pretrained visual encoders with large language models (LLMs).
CALIPER is a new benchmark that tests whether pretrained visual encoders can infer physical properties such as mass and friction from images. The test involves striking an object twice at known speeds, showing a third strike only up to contact, and asking a linear readout on frozen features to predict how far the object slides. Results show that in clean, fixed‑camera scenes all representations perform similarly, but when camera, lighting, and clutter are varied, only encoders that truly infer physics—like V‑JEPA 2—maintain performance, while random or raw pixel representations fail.
arXiv:2605. 21862v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chunked vision-language-action (VLA) policies predict multi-step robot controls, conditioning each update on the current visual observation alone.