arXiv AI August 25, 2026 By Jingbo Wang, Sendong Zhao, Haochun Wang, Bing Qin, Ting Liu

Analyzing and Mitigating Cross-Lingual Degradation in Multilingual Medical VQA

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Multilingual Training and Evaluation Resources for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2604. 18347v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision Language Models (VLMs) achieved rapid progress in the recent years.

By Daniela Baiamonte, Elena Fano, Matteo Gabburo, Stefano Simonazzi, Leonardo Rigutini, Andrea Zugarini

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Jun 24

Multilingual Hematology Visual Question Answering Dataset

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have shown promising capabilities in medical image analysis by jointly understanding visual and textual information for tasks such as Visual Question Answering. However, existing hematology vision-language resources remain predominantly English centric, limiting their applicability in multilingual healthcare environments.

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arXiv Computation and Language

2d ago

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

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arXiv AI

Jun 6

Noise-Aware Visual Representation Learning for Medical Visual Question Answering

arXiv:2606. 05535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Medical visual question answering (Med-VQA) has strong potential for clinical decision support by enabling AI models to interpret medical images and answer clinically relevant queries.

By I Putu Adi Pratama, Bahadorreza Ofoghi, Atul Sajjanhar, Shang Gao

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arXiv Computation and Language

6d ago

HealMed: Multilingual Evaluation of Large Language Models in Medicine

arXiv:2608. 19981v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present HealMed, an expert-reviewed benchmark for multilingual evaluation of large language models in medicine.

By Yingjian Chen (Drew), Fan Gao (Drew), Sherry T. Tong (Drew), Haoyu Zhang (Drew), Aosong Feng (Drew), Kevin W. Jin (Drew), Xing Wu (Drew), Jinghui Lu (Drew), Abdul Samad (Drew), Akbar Faruqi (Drew), Cesar Caraballo (Drew), Cibele Brand\~ao (Drew), Dhruva (Drew), Gupta, Eunji Jeon, Gabriel Madera-Santiago, Geon Lee, Hugo Toshio Itikawa, Insook Cho, Isabelli Martins, Isarar Siddique, Israr Ahmed, Jihyo Kwak, Kanyakorn Veerakanjana, Luis Guilherme Cardoso, Minjin Kim, Piyalitt Ittichaiwong, Renee Dua, Santiago Gudi\~no-Rosales, Xiujie Chen, Zeo Lapalus, Zixin Xu, Michihiro Yasunaga, Rex Ying, Heuiseok Lim, Jaewoo Kang, Chanjun Park, Hang Jiang, Ethan Goh, Hyunjae Kim, Edison Marrese-Taylor, Yusuke Iwasawa, Yutaka Matsuo, Qingyu Chen, Irene Li

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arXiv AI

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Vision-Language Models are Fragile Multilingual Associators

arXiv:2608. 12333v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models must associate visual entities with textual attributes.

By Ritabrata Chakraborty, Rajatsubhra Chakraborty, Shivakumara Palaiahnakote, Angelo Cangelosi, Umapada Pal

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