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Vision-language models, speech and cross-modal systems that read, look and listen in the same forward pass.

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

DataComp-VLM: Improved Open Datasets for Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 28551v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building performant Vision-Language Models (VLMs) requires carefully curating large-scale training datasets, yet the community lacks systematic benchmarks for evaluating such curation strategies.

By Matteo Farina, Vishaal Udandarao, Thao Nguyen, Selim Kuzucu, Maximilian B\"other, Andreas Hochlehnert, Adhiraj Ghosh, Marianna Nezhurina, Karsten Roth, Joschka Struber, Yuhui Zhang, Sebastian Dziadzio, Elaine Sui, Soumya Jahagirdar, Dhruba Ghosh, Hasan Hammoud, Thomas De Min, Simone Caldarella, Jehanzeb Mirza, Sedrick Keh, Mehdi Cherti, Hilde Kuehne, Bernt Schiele, Serena Yeung-Levy, Muhammad Ferjad Naeem, Federico Tombari, Ana Klimovic, Elisa Ricci, Matthias Bethge, Sewoong Oh, Ameya Prabhu, Alessio Tonioni, Jenia Jitsev, Massimiliano Mancini, Ludwig Schmidt, Nikhil Parthasarathy

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

IMCBench: A benchmark for multimodal LLMs in Image-grounded Medical Conversations

arXiv:2606. 28556v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advances in large language models and vision-language models have enabled reasoning over multimodal data, offering opportunities for clinical applications such as decision support and triaging.

By Maria Xenochristou, Ashutosh Joshi, Korosh Vatanparvar, Mohammad Abuzar Hashemi, Prasad Kasu, Deepak Bansal, Anchal Nema, Nivedita Wadhwa, Prashams S Jain, Rebecca Abraham, Will Kimbrough, Dilek Hakkani-Tur, Wilko Schulz-Mahlendorf

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Digitizing Coaching Intelligence: An Agentic Framework for Holistic Athlete Profiling using VLM and RAG

arXiv:2606. 28570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Athlete assessment is a critical process for tracking physical progress and identifying elite talent.

By Deep Ghosal, Ishani Sen, Wazib Ansar, Amlan Chakrabarti

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

Contrastive vision-language learning with paraphrasing and negation

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

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Few-Shot Domain Incremental Learning via Continual Vision-Language Consolidation

arXiv:2606. 30190v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing domain-incremental learning (DIL) strategies call for massive amounts of data to adapt to new domains and suffer from the overfitting problem in the case of data scarcity.

By Naeem Paeedeh, Mahardhika Pratama, Wolfgang Mayer, Mukesh Prasad, Weiping Ding, Yew-Soon Ong

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Tool-Augmented Spatiotemporal Reasoning for Streamlining Video Question Answering Task

arXiv:2512. 10359v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Video Question Answering (VideoQA) task serves as a critical playground for evaluating whether foundation models can effectively perceive, understand, and reason about dynamic real-world scenarios.

By Sunqi Fan, Jiashuo Cui, Meng-Hao Guo, Shuojin Yang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

DreamForge-World 0.1 Preview: A Low-Compute Real-Time Controllable World Model

arXiv:2606. 30292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We present DreamForge-World 0.

By Daniyel Ayupov, Artur Markov-Tsoy

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Evidence-Based Text-Conditioned 3D CT Synthesis for Ovarian Cancer

arXiv:2606. 28980v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Ovarian cancer is frequently diagnosed at an advanced stage, making preoperative contrast-enhanced computed tomography (CT) central to staging and surgical planning; yet the scarcity of annotated imaging data, compounded by privacy regulations, limits the development of generalizable computational models in this domain.

By Francesca Pia Panaccione, Eugenio Lomurno, Francesca Fati, Carlotta Pecchiari, Marina Rosanu, Luigi De Vitis, Lucia Ribero, Gabriella Schivardi, Giovanni Damiano Aletti, Nicoletta Colombo, Maria Francesca Spadea, Francesco Multinu, Matteo Matteucci, Elena De Momi

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Data-Efficient Multimodal Alignment for Histopathology-based Molecular Prediction

arXiv:2606. 29949v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: H&E-stained whole-slide images offer cohort-scale availability and rich spatial context but lack molecular specificity, whereas bulk RNA-seq provides transcriptome-wide resolution at high cost with limited archival availability.

By Dominik Winter, Dominik Vonficht, Lo\"ic Le Bescond, Christian Gebbe, Marco Rosati, Richard J. Chen, Markus Schick, Ross Stewart, Nicolas Brieu

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

LoRA-Tuned Large Language Models for Dementia Detection via Multi-View Speech-Derived Features

arXiv:2606. 28445v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Early detection of dementia enables timely intervention, and reflecting cognitive impairment, spontaneous speech offers a non-invasive screening modality.

By Jonghyeon Park, Olivier Jiyoun Jung, Myungwoo Oh

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Beyond SFT-to-RL: Pre-alignment via Black-Box On-Policy Distillation for Multimodal RL

arXiv:2604. 28123v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The standard post-training recipe for large multimodal models (LMMs) applies supervised fine-tuning (SFT) on curated demonstrations followed by reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR).

By Sudong Wang, Weiquan Huang, Xiaomin Yu, Zuhao Yang, Hehai Lin, Keming Wu, Chaojun Xiao, Chen Chen, Wenxuan Wang, Beier Zhu, Yunjian Zhang, Chengwei Qin

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Rehearsed Multi-Agent Live Product Demonstrations with Real-Time Voice Question Answering

arXiv:2606. 30294v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Live product demonstrations are a recurring, high-cost activity in software organizations: a human presenter must select features, dispatch the corresponding interactions on a running application, narrate them coherently, and answer questions in real time.

By Rahul Khedar, Mayank Malhotra, Avinash Karn, Mouli V, Prakhar Mehrotra

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Multimodal Representation Alignment for Cross-modal Information Retrieval

arXiv:2506. 08774v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Different machine learning models can represent the same underlying concept in different ways.

By Fan Xu, Luis A. Leiva

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Making Multimodal LLMs Reliable Chart Data Extractors: A Benchmark and Training Framework

arXiv:2606. 29808v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chart data extraction, which reverse-engineers data tables from chart images, is essential for reproducibility, analysis, retrieval, and redesign.

By Yuchen He, Peizhi Ying, Liqi Cheng, Kuilin Peng, Yuan Tian, Dazhen Deng, Yingcai Wu

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Animation2Code: Evaluating Temporal Visual Reasoning in Video-to-Code Generation

arXiv:2606. 28593v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While recent vision-language models (VLMs) have achieved significant improvements on static visual-to-code tasks such as generating code for webpages, charts, or SVGs, it remains unclear whether they can recover temporal dynamics when motion is present.

By Anya Ji, Abhijith Varma Mudunuri, David M. Chan, Alane Suhr

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

SciVisAgentBench: A Benchmark for Evaluating Scientific Data Analysis and Visualization Agents

arXiv:2603. 29139v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled agentic systems to translate natural-language intent into executable scientific visualization (SciVis) tasks.

By Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Kaiyuan Tang, Nathaniel Gorski, Jianxin Sun, Guoxi Liu, Helgi I. Ingolfsson, David Lenz, Hanqi Guo, Hongfeng Yu, Teja Leburu, Michael Molash, Bei Wang, Tom Peterka, Chaoli Wang, Shusen Liu

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

The Joint Effect of Quantization and Sampling Temperature on LLM Safety Alignment: A Factorial Analysis

arXiv:2606. 29581v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern LLM deployments routinely compress models and raise sampling temperature to reduce cost, latency, or repetition, yet safety evaluations usually treat these choices as fixed implementation details.

By Hari Prasad, Ritam Pal

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

RA-QA: A Benchmarking System for Respiratory Audio Question Answering Under Real-World Heterogeneity

arXiv:2602. 18452v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As conversational multimodal AI tools are increasingly adopted to process patient data for health assessment, robust benchmarks are needed to measure progress and expose failure modes under realistic conditions.

By Gaia A. Bertolino, Yuwei Zhang, Tong Xia, Domenico Talia, Cecilia Mascolo

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 30

Same Concept, Different Directions: Cross-Modal Feature Heterogeneity in Sparse Autoencoders

arXiv:2606. 29888v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models map images and text into a joint embedding space.

By Chungpa Lee, Jihoon Kwon, Kyle Min, Jy-yong Sohn

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arXiv AI

Jun 30

Efficient Spatio-Temporal Grounding with Multimodal Large Models via Second-Level Tracking and RL Verification

arXiv:2606. 29023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatio-temporal grounding in long videos requires precise temporal localization and robust object tracking conditioned on natural-language queries.

By Tianshu Zhang, Yan Wang, Ji Qi, Lijie Wen

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