arXiv:2608. 12852v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Language can describe states of affairs that are false and states of affairs that could not be the case at all.
By Yoon Pyo Lee
arXiv:2608. 13113v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have led to substantial progress in video understanding, accompanied by a growing number of long video benchmarks.
By Weitao Chen, Hu Jiaxin, Xie Tianyidan, Yang Li, Yuyi Qian, Banghao Xu, Ziheng Tang, Shenyi Wang, Mingyue Yu, Duo Li, Jiacheng Shi, Gao Wang, Zhan Xu, Zhicheng Qiu, Xuanfu Li, Jian Yang, Lanjun Wang, Zili Yi
arXiv:2608. 12327v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual pretrained models nominally support Nepali, yet no controlled benchmark has compared them under a single fine-tuning protocol.
By Suman Paudel, Sarbin Sayami
arXiv:2608. 13267v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing vision-language model (VLM) benchmarks emphasize perception and reasoning accuracy (how well VLMs describe and reason about what they see in an image), with limited attention to behavioral reliability under uncertainty (how they behave when visual evidence is missing or misleading).
By Paul Osemudiame Oamen, Owusu-Banahene Osei, Ananya Mukherjee, Christian Greisinger, Steffen Eger, Pius Onobhayedo, Wei Zhao
arXiv:2608. 13463v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Modern image classification models excel when trained on single task-specific datasets but often struggle to generalize across domains and difficulty levels.
By Daniel Perkins, John Squires, Janou Milligan, Chandra Raskoti, Linda Ungerboeck
arXiv:2608. 12745v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Medical AI has demonstrated specialist-level diagnostic accuracy, yet these capabilities remain largely inaccessible in resource-constrained rural settings where bandwidth is scarce, compute is limited, and clinical decision-making requires integrating heterogeneous modalities.
By Hei Ting (Una), Chan, Chenwei Wu, Xueshen Liu, Zesen Zhao, Boyuan Zheng, Luis Filipe Nakayama, Michael G. Morley, Liyue Shen, Jiasi Chen, Z. Morley Mao
arXiv:2608. 12743v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Spatial intelligence is becoming a foundation for embodied agents, robotic planning, and multimodal assistants.
By Haokai Zhang, Yuhang Ding, Yunshu Zhou, Xinze Du, Shengtao Zhang, Zhiyue Zhao, Yuling Xi, Hao Chen
arXiv:2608. 13344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon Earth observation reasoning requires models to organize multi-stage geographic evolution, localize spatial changes, detect temporal anomalies, and infer future from extended image sequences.
By Yupan Ding, Jing Xiao, Zhenyuan Zhang, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Gui-Song Xia, Mi Wang
arXiv:2602. 10840v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been widely studied in areas such as mathematical reasoning, complex coding, and scientific problem solving.
By Yanan Wang, Renxi Wang, Yongxin Wang, Xuezhi Liang, Fajri Koto, Timothy Baldwin, Xiaodan Liang, Haonan Li
arXiv:2608. 13560v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Transforming multimodal sources into condensed and structured media outputs can be fundamentally conceptualized as a long-horizon agentic process centered on a model-harness system.
By Yaxin Luo, Haobin Jiang, Jialv Zou, Xu Huang, Wenhao Yan, Haodong Li, Zhengrong Yue, Jing Li, Xiaofu Chen, Xiaohan Zhao, Jiacheng Liu, Jiacheng Cui, Zhiqiang Shen, Xiaotong Li
arXiv:2608. 12398v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We propose IM-LEPP (Integrated Multimodal Latent Energy-based Predictive Processing), a hierarchical, energy-based model of multimodal cognition that extends a previously proposed single-modality model (LEPP) to integrate vision and language.
By Subir Varma
arXiv:2608. 12724v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Few-shot in-context learning (ICL) with multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) enables task adaptation without parameter updates, but its performance is highly sensitive to the quality and coverage of the selected demonstrations.
By Zirui Cheng, Xun Xu, Tiankai Chen, Fady Rezk, Bowen Zheng, Xiaodong Shi, Shijie Li, Kangkang Lu, Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Nancy F. Chen
arXiv:2608. 13031v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic video understanding has become an important problem in intelligent transportation, as road videos provide direct evidence for accidents, violations, and interactions between vehicles and vulnerable road users.
By Peng Li, Qianqian Xu, Shilong Bao, Yangbangyan Jiang, Qingming Huang
arXiv:2608. 13505v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scientific discovery increasingly requires AI systems that can reason over scientific evidence of heterogeneous modalities, interact with scientific tools and environments, and sustain progress across long task horizons.
By Lei Bai, Jiaqi Cao, Chiyu Chen, Guanzhou Chen, Kai Chen, Guangran Cheng, Erfei Cui, Xuanlang Dai, Shengyuan Ding, Shangheng Du, Yanhui Duan, Yue Fan, Youqing Fang, Quan Gan, Yuanyuan Gao, Jiaye Ge, Lixin Gu, Yuzhe Gu, Qipeng Guo, Junjun He, Xin Hong, Ming Hu, Zhouqi Hua, Haian Huang, Junhao Huang, Zixian Huang, Minxi Jin, Lingkai Kong, Alexander Lam, Zehao Li, Zonglin Li, Tianhao Liang, Dahua Lin, Junyao Lin, Tianyang Lin, Zhouhan Lin, Jiangning Liu, Jin Liu, Kuikun Liu, Wenran Liu, Yifei Liu, Yuhong Liu, Yuhong Liu, Zhoumianze Liu, Ziyan Liu, Ziyu Liu, Haijun Lv, Han Lv, Chengqi Lyu, Le Ma, Ningsheng Ma, Zerun Ma, Haoyang Peng, Runyu Peng, Jifei Shan, Zixin Shang, Kou Shi, Xiang Shi, Qisheng Su, Xuerui Su, Hao Sun, Xiao Sun, Yanan Sun, Yu Sun, Huanze Tang, Yinghao Tang, Wenhui Tian, Zhongbo Tian, Bingli Wang, Haomin Wang, Jiarui Wang, Jingzhi Wang, Rui Wang, Xiquan Wang, Yi Wang, Zhecan Wang, Ziyi Wang, Zun Wang, Rubin Wei, Lianyi Wu, Wen Wu, Yue Wu, Yuhan Wu, Zhenyu Wu, Zijian Wu, Shuhao Xing, Jun Xu, Xingle Xu, Xuenan Xu, Xiangchao Yan, Ziang Yan, Bowen Yang, Danni Yang, Lin Yang, Zhiqi Yang, Qian Yao, Haochen Ye, Peng Ye, Jinhui Yin, Jiashuo Yu, Dingbo Yuan, Fei Yuan, Yuhang Zang, Bo Zhang, Chao Zhang, Chen Zhang, Hongjie Zhang, Junming Zhang, Wenlong Zhang, Wenwei Zhang, Yiming Zhang, Zhuo Zhang, Ziyang Zhang, Haiteng Zhao, Penghao Zhao, Yibo Zhao, Zhonghan Zhao, Zhihang Zhong, Bowen Zhou, Peiheng Zhou, Xin Zhou, Xinyu Zhou, Yunhua Zhou, Dongsheng Zhu, Yicheng Zou
arXiv:2510. 22282v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Urban socio-economic sensing plays a vital role in advancing global sustainable development goals.
By Tianhui Liu, Hetian Pang, Xin Zhang, Jie Feng, Pan Hui, Yong Li
arXiv:2608. 12854v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Autonomous driving requires planning under both semantic constraints and predictive dynamics.
By Bing Zhan, Shuyao Shang, Jiahao Gu, Shuo Lu, Yuan Xu, Zhao Wang, Yida Wang, Xueyang Zhang, Kun Zhan, Lue Fan, Zhaoxiang Zhang
arXiv:2608. 12851v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Self-improving LLM agents convert successful trajectories into persistent cross-task state.
By Xutao Mao, Liangjie Zhao, Xiang Zheng, Cong Wang
arXiv:2608. 13100v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Contemporary online assessment systems rely primarily on browser lockdown, webcam monitoring, and behavioural analytics, yet remain vulnerable to attacks that extract the assessment content itself through screenshots, screen sharing, optical character recognition, and automated scraping.
By Gupta Lovi Raj, Kaur Kamalpreet, Dama Sri Ram, Parani Prajithaa
arXiv:2608. 13453v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have emerged as generalist robotic policies capable of following diverse language instructions and performing a wide range of manipulation tasks.
By Yukun Dai, Mingzhe Dai, Tianshi Wang, Fengling Li, Jingjing Li, Lei Zhu
Training Multimodal Large Language Models for audio-visual social understanding is a crucial step toward embodied social intelligence. Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning has become the dominant approach, with HumanOmniV2 and its IntentBench benchmark as a prominent reference point.