arXiv:2608. 05000v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision offers a critical axis for advancing foundation models, driving a shift towards natively unified multimodal pretraining.
By Junlin Han, Shengbang Tong, David Fan, Minghao Chen, Philip Torr, Filippos Kokkinos, Mike Lewis
arXiv:2503. 06211v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Text-pretrained language models (LMs) encode rich world knowledge, but adapting them to process and generate perceptual modalities such as audio and images while effectively leveraging that knowledge remains challenging.
By Santiago Cuervo, Adel Moumen, Yanis Labrak, Sameer Khurana, Antoine Laurent, Mickael Rouvier, Phil Woodland, Ricard Marxer
arXiv:2606. 05290v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent progress in generative modeling has made safety control a central challenge, yet existing approaches remain largely model-specific, requiring retraining or tailored interventions for each new architecture.
By Tobia Poppi, Silvia Cappelletti, Sara Sarto, Florian Schiffers, Garin Kessler, Marcella Cornia, Lorenzo Baraldi, Rita Cucchiara
arXiv:2607. 00293v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Achieving true artificial general intelligence requires foundation models capable of integrating new modalities without forgetting prior knowledge.
By Xiangyue Liu, Zijian Zhang, Miles Yang, Zhao Zhong, Liefeng Bo, Ping Tan
arXiv:2506. 20699v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Learning in non-stationary and multi-context environments requires more than ordinary within-task generalization.
By Xin Li
arXiv:2607. 27372v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The deep learning revolution, kicked off by AlexNet, taught us that end-to-end training beats decomposing a problem into hand-designed stages.
By Alexi Gladstone, Heng Ji, Yilun Du