arXiv Computer Vision

Actor as Its Own Critic: Unifying Region Understanding and Localization via CycleGRPO

arXiv Computation and Language
Aug 25

Benchmarking and Boosting Multilingual Capabilities of LVLMs via OCR-Centric Reinforcement Learning

The paper introduces PM4Bench, a multimodal, multilingual, multi-task benchmark built on a strictly parallel 10‑language corpus, allowing fair cross‑lingual comparison of Large Vision‑Language Models (LVLMs). It also proposes a vision setting that embeds textual inputs directly into images to better mimic real deployment scenarios. Experiments show OCR performance drives cross‑lingual gaps, leading to an OCR‑centric GRPO training strategy that improves multilingual VQA and reduces disparities without costly supervision.

By Junyuan Gao, Jiahe Song, Jiang Wu, Runchuan Zhu, Guanlin Shen, Shasha Wang, Xingjian Wei, Haote Yang, Weijia Li, Bin Wang, Lijun Wu, Conghui He
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 2

B-GRTO: Bootstrapped Group Relative Tool Optimization for Referring Segmentation

arXiv:2605. 23500v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Segmentation is a fundamental task in computer vision, underpinning pixel-level scene understanding and serving as a cornerstone for applications ranging from autonomous perception to medical image analysis.

By Mario Markov (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Stefan Maria Ailuro (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Mohammad Mahdi (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Luc Van Gool (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Danda Pani Paudel (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski")
arXiv Computer Vision
2d ago

A Glance Is All You Need: Single-Pass Fine-Grained Image Captioning with SimLoss

arXiv:2609.00591v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An image may be worth a thousand words, but most captioning models describe it in only a few. Modern vision-language models produce fluent high-level c...

By Suryaansh Jain, Rahasya Barkur, Vishal G, Ryan Rossi, Franck Dernoncourt, Jack Wang, Koustava Goswami, Nedim Lipka, Puneet Mathur, Samyadeep Basu, Seunghyun Yoon
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 3

NextMotionQA: Benchmarking and Judging Human Motion Understanding with Vision-Language Models

Reliable evaluation of human motion understanding is fundamental to advancing embodied AI, robotics, and animation. However, existing benchmarks suffer from coarse semantic granularity, undifferentiated difficulty, limited annotation quality, and pervasive answer ambiguity, leaving them unable to diagnose where current models fail.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 19

Falcon Perception-HD: High Density Perception via Reinforcement Learning

Falcon Perception-HD applies reinforcement learning (GRPO) to autoregressive perception models, aligning them directly with precision and recall metrics rather than relying on maximum‑likelihood fine‑tuning. The RL framework introduces reward design for set‑structured outputs and multi‑head sampling control, enabling state‑of‑the‑art performance in very dense scenes (up to 500 objects) and eliminating common issues such as mask repetitions, NMS, and coordinate deduplication. Hybrid self‑annotation pipelines tailored for difficult referring expressions and dense scenes further boost RL training, with improvements observed across all difficulty levels on PBench and SACO‑Gold, and the model preserves object existence knowledge without negative samples.

arXiv AI
1d ago

TikZilla: Scaling Text-to-TikZ with High-Quality Data and Reinforcement Learning

TikZilla is a new approach to generating TikZ code from textual descriptions, built on a larger, higher‑quality dataset called DaTikZ‑V4 that includes LLM‑generated figure descriptions. The method uses a two‑stage pipeline: supervised fine‑tuning of small Qwen models (3B and 8B) followed by reinforcement learning with an image encoder that provides semantically faithful reward signals. Human evaluations show that TikZilla outperforms its base models by 1.5–2 points on a 5‑point scale, beats GPT‑4o by 0.5 points, and matches GPT‑5 in image‑based tests while remaining much smaller.

By Christian Greisinger, Steffen Eger
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 30

One Patch Is Enough: Reinforcement-Optimized Visual Token Grounding for MLLM-Based Scene Text Spotting

Scene text spotting requires high-precision alignment between textual recognition and spatial localization. While visual-token grounding has emerged as a promising formulation for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs), the previous multi-patch paradigm often introduces redundant noise and localization ambiguity, particularly for dense or small text instances.