arXiv:2606. 26794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: CLIP and its variants are widely adopted visual backbones in multimodal systems, but their pretraining remains dominated by descriptive image-text alignment.
By Sicheng Zhang, Muzammal Naseer, Binzhu Xie, Naufal Suryanto, Shi Qiu, Jamal Bentahar, Naveed Akhtar, Mubarak Shah
arXiv:2608.22963v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed as multi-step agents, where explicit reasoning supports task decomposition and tool...
By Yuchen Huang, Sijia Li, Jun Zhang, Yi R. Fung
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) are increasingly deployed as multi-step agents, where explicit reasoning supports task decomposition and tool coordination but also accumulates self-generated...
arXiv:2608.21796v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Knowledge-based Visual Question Answering (KB-VQA) aims to answer queries that necessitate reasoning over external knowledge sources beyond the visua...
By Long Shu, Shuochen Liu, Wei Chen, Junda Lin, Zhi Zheng, Huijun Hou, Tong Xu
arXiv:2609.37656v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Large vision-language models (LVLMs) exhibit strong reasoning capabilities, yet the visual and textual evidence supporting the generated responses rema...
By Bowen Yuan, Danny Wang, Ruihong Qiu, Zijian Wang, Zi Huang
arXiv:2606. 17678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) integrate strong text reasoning with visual inputs, yet their responses can be inconsistent with the underlying images, indicating ineffective utilization of visual evidence during inference.
By Yilian Liu, Sicong Leng, Guoshun Nan, Junyi Zhu, Jiayu Huang, Minghao Sun, Xuancheng Zhu, Yisong Chen, Zexian Wei, Xiaofeng Tao