arXiv:2607. 22919v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal embedding spaces in models like CLIP enable powerful capabilities such as semantic similarity retrieval and cross-modal zero-shot classification.
By Joseph Fioresi, Fabian Caba Heilbron, Pankaj Nathani, Mubarak Shah, Kushal Kafle
arXiv:2607. 18237v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human visual similarity judgments are context-dependent.
By Sheng-Yu Wang, Yotam Nitzan, Aaron Hertzmann, Jun-Yan Zhu, Eli Shechtman, Alexei A. Efros, Richard Zhang
arXiv:2511. 16527v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Contrastive vision-language models continue to be the dominant approach for image-text retrieval.
By Kwun Ho Ngan, Saman Sadeghi Afgeh, Joe Townsend, Artur d'Avila Garcez
arXiv:2608. 15224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reliable post-hoc evaluation asks whether already generated text satisfies a target criterion after generation.
By Che Shen, Junwei Su, Lingpeng Kong, Chuan Wu
Abundant visual information strengthens vision-language model (VLM) perception, yet massive visual tokens raise inference costs. Existing visual token pruning methods rely on similarity-based guidance, which exploits pairwise text-vision and vision-vision token correlations for compression.
arXiv:2605. 18714v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unified multimodal models (UMMs) strive to consolidate visual understanding and visual generation within a single architecture.
By Songsong Yu, Yuxin Chen, Ying Shan, Yanwei Li