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
Aug 18

When State Becomes an Attack Surface: State-Semantic Injection in LLM-Driven Embodied Agents

arXiv:2608. 16806v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated capabilities in in-context learning, task decomposition, step-by-step reasoning, and code generation, driving their gradual evolution from text generation models into the core of agents capable of perceiving environments, invoking tools, and executing tasks.

By Jiawei Liu, Jiacheng Guo, Tian Zhang, Yiwei Xu, Juan Wang, Jinlin Fan, Bowen Xiao, Chi Guo, Keyan Guo, Hongxin Hu
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Dear Algo: A Precision-First Agentic Intent Layer for Unified Search and Recommendation

arXiv:2608. 15877v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Search and recommendation serve a shared discovery objective but encode intent differently.

By Rui Wang, Jiazhou Wang, Zheng Wei, Chenglin Lu, Fangcheng Sun, Ivy Sun, Jin Sun, Hui Geng, Lillian Zhang, Chao Yang, Lei Chen, Shahin Sefati, Reem Helou, Joe Zhou, Babak Shakibi, Yiyi Pan, Bi Xue, Hong Yan, Shujian Bu
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Adding Voice Cloning to Text-to-Audio-Video Models with a Single Zero-Initialised Layer

arXiv:2608. 15690v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Text-to-audio-video (T2AV) generation models produce a video and its soundtrack from a textual description, but offer no control over whose voice speaks in the output.

By Ivan Mikheev, Viacheslav Vasilev, Anna Dmitrienko, Alexey Letunovskiy, Ivan Kirillov, Kirill Chernyshev, Denis Dimitrov
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Multi-Agent Closed-Loop Reasoning for Organic Structure Elucidation from Multimodal Spectra

arXiv:2608. 14720v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Following the molecular discovery and synthesis revolutions, scalable automated structure elucidation from routine spectroscopic data remains an outstanding challenge.

By Bingsen Xue, Zhuojun Jiang, Jianhao Zhang, Mingcheng Gu, Yizhe Yuan, Yongtai Zhuo, Yifan Zhang, Li Wang, Ya Su, Yue Yuan, Jiang Liu, Xueqian Kong, Cheng Jin
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Multi-Modal Generative Fuzzy System: Fuzzy Inference Guided Large Model Interactive Question Answering Framework

arXiv:2608. 14584v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In Multimodal Question Answering (MQA), models are required to jointly encode and integrate heterogeneous information from multiple modalities, including text, images, and speech, to perform complex semantic reasoning and decision making.

By Hailong Yang, Jianqi Wang, Guanjin Wang, Zhaohong Deng
arXiv AI
Aug 18

JailbreakSkill: Scaling Automated Red-Teaming with Reusable and Ever-Evolving Skills

arXiv:2608. 16465v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Automated red-teaming has produced a growing collection of attack strategies, yet they typically remain scattered across prompts and workflows, making them difficult to systematically integrate, reuse, and improve at scale.

By Xiaoyu Wen, Jiajia Li, Zhida He, Peng Yu, Chenxu Wang, Han Qi, Ziyuan Zhou, Cheng Jin, Ying Wen, Xingcheng Xu, Shuyue Hu, Tianhang Zheng, Chaochao Lu, Qiaosheng Zhang
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Workspace Topology as an Attack Vector in Agentic Coding Assistants

arXiv:2608. 14876v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Agentic coding assistants are finding widespread use, not just in new code development but in quickly ingesting and leveraging third-party code.

By Alexandre G. R. Day, Pradeep Yadlapalli, Sriram Venkatapathy, Thomas Paniagua, Nick Raines, Sahil Wadhwa, Himanshu Kumar, Andy Luo, Sudeep Panyam, Rikhiya Ghosh, Pranab Mohanty, Giri Iyengar
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

The Null Token Knows: Reducing Message-Free Hallucination in ASR and NMT

The paper investigates how encoder-decoder models in ASR and NMT can generate fluent text even when the input contains no recoverable message, a phenomenon known as message-free hallucination. By auditing the models’ reserved null tokens and manipulating their scores, the authors show that a higher null-token score can suppress fabrication but may also delete valid content or shorten translations. The study highlights that the null token can serve as a diagnostic tool for hallucination and suggests evaluating abstention methods by considering both suppression and deletion costs.

By Kirill Borodin, Vasiliy Kudryavtsev, Ivan Viakhirev
arXiv AI
Aug 18

OODBench: Out-of-Distribution Benchmark for Large Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2602. 18094v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Existing Visual-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved significant progress by being trained on massive-scale datasets, typically under the assumption that data are independent and identically distributed (IID).

By Ling Lin, Yang Bai, Heng Su, Congcong Zhu, Yaoxing Wang, Yang Zhou, Huazhu Fu, Jingrun Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 18

Retrieval-guided Twin Fusion with Similarity-aware Contrast for Molecule-Text Alignment

arXiv:2608. 16005v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: This paper studies the problem of molecule-text alignment, which aims to project molecules and their textual descriptions into a joint latent space for downstream tasks including molecule search and molecular property prediction.

By Shunshun Gu, Shengqi Qiu, Hang Zhou, Xiao Luo
arXiv AI
Aug 18

Neurosymbolic Embodied Agents

arXiv:2608. 16794v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language and vision-language models generate plausible embodied plans but do not guarantee executability, as their outputs can violate environment dynamics or act on incorrectly grounded entities.

By Mohammad Albinhassan, Yuming Feng, Alessandra Russo, Pranava Madhyastha