arXiv:2601. 22054v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Scaling has powered recent advances in vision foundation models, yet extending this paradigm to metric depth estimation remains challenging due to heterogeneous sensor noise, camera-dependent biases, and metric ambiguity in noisy cross-source 3D data.
By Baorui Ma, Jiahui Yang, Donglin Di, Xuancheng Zhang, Jianxun Cui, Hao Li, Yan Xie, Wei Chen
arXiv:2607. 04927v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World Action Models (WAMs) provide a promising alternative to Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies by using video-based world modeling as dense supervision for robot action learning.
By Jian Zhu, Jianjun Zhang, Taiyi Su, Tianbin Liu, Zhangyuan Wang, Kai Xie, Zitai Huang, Chong Ma, Youzhang He, Tianjian Wang, Hanyang Wang, Weihao Ding, Yi Xu
arXiv:2607. 04593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across different tasks, but their computational cost is dominated by the large number of visual tokens fed to the language model.
By Riccardo Renzulli, Gabriele Spadaro, Shruthi Gowda, Alaa Eddine Mazouz, Van-Tam Nguyen
arXiv:2607. 04681v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Embodied Chain-of-Thought has emerged as a promising mechanism to enhance robot decision-making and interpretability in black-box Vision-Language Action (VLA) models.
By Matthew Foutter, Matteo Cercola, Lena Wild, Yunshan Wang, Michelle Li, Daniele Gammelli, Marco Pavone
arXiv:2607. 04625v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) streamlines long-document understanding by leveraging retrieval mechanisms to restrict input images to a highly curated subset.
By Junyu Xiong, Yonghui Wang, Rongjian Gu, Chenyu Liu, Bing Yin, Wengang Zhou, Houqiang Li
arXiv:2607. 04645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Safety alignment in large language models is typically evaluated against direct, imperative harmful requests.
By Samira Hajizadeh
arXiv:2607. 04339v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large generative models across text-to-text, text-to-image, and image-to-text modalities have been shown to pose significant privacy risks.
By Dayong Ye, Tainqing Zhu, Kun Gao, Junhao Liu, Yichuan Chen, Shuai Zhou, Hengzhu Liu, Bo Liu, Wanlei Zhou
arXiv:2607. 04344v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate remarkable generic capabilities, their clinical reasoning in specialized domains like ocular surface diseases (OSDs) is severely hindered by a paucity of high-fidelity, multimodal instruction-tuning data.
By Hao Wei, Wenjin Qi, Dasen Dai, Minqing Zhang, Wu Yuan
arXiv:2607. 04241v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Plasma disruption is a critical threat to tokamak safety.
By Qiang Chen, Xiao Wang, Hao Si, Qingquan Yang, Meiwen Chen, Jianhua Yang, Xiaofeng Han, Yunhu Jia, Ran Chen, Liang Wang, Jin Tang, Guosheng Xu
arXiv:2607. 04179v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: End-to-end Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show immense potential in autonomous driving.
By Zhaohong Liu, Hao Ye, Xianlin Zhang, Mengshi Qi
arXiv:2607. 03831v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion models have recently been repurposed for zero-shot classification, giving rise to diffusion classifiers that identify the best-matching text prompt by minimizing the noise-prediction error.
By Saba Fathi, Fardin Ayar, Maryam Abdolali, Ehsan Javanmardi, Manabu Tsukada, Mahdi Javanmardi
arXiv:2607. 03806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Audio foundation models are widely adopted as general-purpose feature extractors, yet the internal structure of their learned representations remains insufficiently understood.
By H\'ector Martel, Joe Hennessy-Priest, Taemin Cho
arXiv:2607. 03739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We release a benchmark and failure-mode-aware evaluation framework for grounded QA under coordinated retrieval poisoning.
By Donghyun Lee (Dongguk University), Juntae Kim (Dongguk University)
arXiv:2607. 03581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The widespread adoption of facial masks, accelerated by COVID-19 and mandated in security-sensitive settings, has exposed limitations of conventional face recognition systems.
By Dana A Abdullah
arXiv:2607. 03365v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) increasingly read news and web content as images, where the publisher's identity is visually present.
By Chih-Ting Liao, Xin Cao
arXiv:2607. 03349v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The accuracy of consumer-grade inertial navigation is bottlenecked by the stochastic noise of Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS).
By I-Hao Lu, Dongsoo Han
arXiv:2607. 03298v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models for Earth systems have so far been trained primarily on physical climate and weather data, with limited representation of the human systems that both drive and respond to environmental change.
By Carlos Rodriguez-Pardo, Massimo Tavoni
arXiv:2607. 03193v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Calibrating a superconducting transmon chip is a sequential decision problem under noise, drift, and a finite budget: an expert must choose experiments, read ambiguous plots, judge fit quality, and revise stale beliefs as the chip drifts.
By Animesh Tripathy, Aswanth Krishnan
arXiv:2607. 03213v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present OpenGlass, an open-source, privacy-oriented, local-first system for low-latency multimodal visual assistance, with a primary focus on blind and low-vision users.
By Mengzhang Li, Yuan Yao
arXiv:2607. 02718v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in large-scale image generative models enable photorealistic scene synthesis with controllable attributes.
By Stanislav Panev, Minhyek Jeon, Vaishnavi Khindkar, Ahish Deshpande, Celso M de Melo, Shuowen Hu, Shayok Chakraborty, Fernando De la Torre