Multimodal models

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

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arXiv AI
Jun 15

GUITrans2Act: Understanding User Operational Behaviors from Mobile GUI Interactions with Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 12817v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Understanding the digital world on mobile devices is shifting from static UI perception to dynamic action comprehension.

By Yudong Zhang (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Lei Hu (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Daoyang Liu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China), Jiawei Liu (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Yangfan Luo (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Zhilin Gao (Honor Device Co., Ltd), Zuojian Wang (Honor Device Co., Ltd)
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

AcceRL: A Distributed Asynchronous Reinforcement Learning and World Model Framework for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2603. 18464v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reinforcement learning (RL) for large-scale Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models is severely bottlenecked by synchronization barriers and the high cost of environment data acquisition.

By Chengxuan Lu, Shukuan Wang, Yanjie Li, Yingying Fang, Huoyan Wang, Tian Zhang, Wei Liu, Shiji Jin, Fuyuan Qian, Peiming Li, Chao Xu, Baigui Sun, Yang Liu
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Pix2Fact: When Vision Is Not Enough -- Benchmarking Fine-Grained VQA with Web Verification on High-Resolution Real-World Scenes

arXiv:2602. 00593v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Despite progress on general tasks, vision-language models (VLMs) still struggle with challenges that demand both fine-grained visual grounding and external knowledge, a synergy overlooked by existing benchmarks that evaluate these abilities in isolation.

By Yifan Jiang, Cong Zhang, Bofei Zhang, Qiaofeng Zheng, Yifan Yang, Bingzhang Wang, Yew-Soon Ong
arXiv AI
Jun 15

Mask, Sample, Revise: A Revisable CTMC Inference Stack for Guided Discrete Flow Matching Text-to-Speech

arXiv:2606. 13989v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent alignment-free non-autoregressive (NAR) text-to-speech (TTS) models formulate synthesis as a conditional infilling task, bypassing explicit duration predictors and external aligners.

By Alef Iury Siqueira Ferreira, Lucas Rafael Stefanel Gris, Luiz Fernando de Ara\'ujo Vidal, Frederico Santos de Oliveira, Christopher Dane Shulby, Anderson da Silva Soares, Arlindo Rodrigues Galv\~ao Filho
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

LoMC: Localized Multidirectional Correction for Refusal Suppression in Routed Foundation Models

arXiv:2606. 13709v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We study controlled post-training refusal suppression in routed MoE and hybrid-MoE foundation models, aiming to increase non-refusal target-response behavior while preserving general capability under a compact intervention footprint.

By Yan Hong, Kedong Xiu, Wei Li, Jun Lan, Huijia Zhu, Shuheng Zhou, Zhongcai Lyu, Weiqiang Wang, Jianfu Zhang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

PCR-CA: Parallel Codebook Representations with Contrastive Alignment for Multiple-Category App Recommendation

arXiv:2508. 18166v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Modern app store recommender systems struggle with multiple-category apps, as traditional taxonomies fail to capture overlapping semantics, leading to suboptimal personalization.

By Bin Tan, Wangyao Ge, Yidi Wang, Xin Liu, Jeff Burtoft, Hao Fan, Hui Wang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Machine Learning for Biomedical Raman Spectroscopy: From Spectral Acquisition to Clinical Translation

arXiv:2606. 14169v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Raman spectroscopy provides label-free, chemically specific characterization of biological systems and has become an important tool for cancer diagnosis, molecular subtyping, microbiological identification, and intraoperative decision support.

By Bogdan Oancea, Ana Maria Seciu-Grama, Nicoleta Siminea, Laura Mihaela Stefan, Alice Stoica, Joel Sjoberg, Marian Necula, Ana-Maria Prelipcean, Corneliu Ovidiu Vrancianu, Eduard Milea, Andrei P\u{a}un, Ion Petre, Mihaela P\u{a}un
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

$\mu_0$: A Scalable 3D Interaction-Trace World Model

arXiv:2606. 13769v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: World models that capture how actions induce physical change enable scalable robot learning without reliance on embodiment-specific action labels.

By Seungjae Lee, Yoonkyo Jung, Jusuk Lee, Jonghun Shin, Amir Hossein Shahidzadeh, Yao-Chih Lee, H. Jin Kim, Jia-Bin Huang, Furong Huang
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 15

Self-Evolving Visual Questioner

arXiv:2606. 13929v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) are typically trained as passive answerers, while their ability to actively ask diverse, non-trivial, visual-centric and grounded questions remains underexplored.

By Yijun Liang, Hengguang Zhou, Ming Li, Lichen Li, Cho-Jui Hsieh, Tianyi Zhou