arXiv:2608. 11907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As Large Vision-Language Models increasingly aim to integrate visual generation and understanding within a single parameter space, evaluating such structural unification in a cohesive manner remains a critical challenge.
By Hao Zhang, Jiaxin Qi, Zhijiang Tang, Jianqiang Huang
arXiv:2608. 11847v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) integrate visual perception with language generation, enabling responses that span image understanding and complex reasoning.
By Beomsik Cho, Jinhyeong Kim, Dongseok Lee, Jaehyung Kim
arXiv:2607. 14616v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can describe a scene, but can they act well within one?
By Jasin Cekinmez, Addison J. Wu, Haotian Xia, Kyumin Andrew Shim, Anay Putty, Jinglin Xiao, Zhuohan Liu, Leo Liu, Weining Shen
arXiv:2608. 11891v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Governments increasingly fund indigenous foundation models to strengthen national AI capability, digital sovereignty, and multilingual computing.
By Avinash Agarwal, Vridhi Jain
arXiv:2608. 11623v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) have spurred cross-modal solutions for time-series forecasting.
By Rentao Gu, Yihang Ding, Junjie Li, Yi Ding, Weijing Sang, Xiaoli Huo, Xin Qin, Yuefeng Ji
arXiv:2608. 11691v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement-learning (RL) post-training equips multimodal large reasoning models (MLRMs) with exploratory chains of thought (CoT), substantially improving visual reasoning.
By Xinhao Zhong, Yuxia Qiao, Junhao Li, Hao Fang, Yi Sun, Bin Chen
arXiv:2608. 11322v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human-AI research often evaluates individual capabilities, combined performance, or final outputs, but these approaches do not preserve how one party's response becomes part of the conditions under which the other party's next contribution is formed.
By Mehmed Zahid \c{C}\"ogenli
arXiv:2608. 11590v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Human voice generation has made rapid progress in speech generation, singing voice generation, voice cloning, and voice editing.
By Haowei Lou, Hye-Young Paik, Dai Jia, Kai Li, Lina Yao
arXiv:2608. 11588v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Mobile GUI agents remain brittle when deployed to applications absent from source training.
By Linqiang Guo (Peter), Li Gu (Peter), Zihuan Jiang (Peter), Zhixiang Chi (Peter), Siobhan Reid (Peter), Ziqiang Wang (Peter), Yuanhao Yu (Peter), Wei Liu (Peter), Yang Wang (Peter), Tse-Hsun (Peter), Chen
arXiv:2608. 11244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Construction standards are critical for building safety and sustainability.
By Jia-Rui Lin, Junxi Guo, Keyin Chen, Peng Pan
arXiv:2608. 11587v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advances in model design and self-supervised audio representations have improved speech and audio understanding, yet infant-centered naturalistic recordings remain challenging due to limited labeled data, low signal-to-noise ratio, and cross-family domain shifts.
By Xulin Fan, Jialu Li, Mohammad Nur Hossain Khan, Kexin Hu, Bashima Islam, Mark Hasegawa-Johnson, Nancy L. McElwain
arXiv:2603. 17450v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Sequential Recommendation (SR) in multimodal settings typically relies on small frozen pretrained encoders, which limits semantic capacity and prevents Collaborative Filtering (CF) signals from being fully integrated into item representations.
By Junyoung Kim, Woojoo Kim, Wonbin Kweon, Jaehyung Lim, Dongha Kim, Hwanjo Yu
arXiv:2608. 12037v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern stochastic predictors can model rich, multi-modal outcome distributions.
By Eduardo Figueiredo, Frederik Mathiesen, Julian Schumann, Jens Kober, Arkady Zgonnikov, Luca Laurenti
arXiv:2608. 11335v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Clinical text can narrow down what to segment, but recent text-guided designs emphasize spatial alignment while overlooking frequency content that governs texture and boundaries.
By Md Maklachur Rahman, Tracy Hammond
arXiv:2608. 11472v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pancreatic cancer is among the most lethal malignancies; risk stratification of intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasms (IPMNs) offers a crucial opportunity for early intervention but typically requires invasive tissue biopsy.
By Max A. Nelson, Eminenur Sen Tasci, Zhixiang Wang, Zongwei Zhou, Halil Ertugrul Aktas, Andrea M. Bejar, Elif Keles, Ziliang Hong, S{\i}tk{\i} Safa Taflan, Muhammed Enes Tasci, Frank H. Miller, Michael B. Wallace, Rajesh N. Keswani, Gorkem Durak, Ulas Bagci
arXiv:2608. 11738v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM)-based UAV aerial image understanding and reasoning is essential for aerial intelligence yet poses distinct challenges arising from extreme scale variation, arbitrary camera orientations, and high object density.
By Haoyu Zhang, Shuoxun Zhang, Peng Ye, Lin Zhang, Jiakang Yuan, Shenghong Yi, Yuening Wang, Tao Chen
arXiv:2608. 11741v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The scholarly exegesis of ancient Chinese characters demands integrating visual observation, linguistic analysis, and historical context.
By Ran Li, Huiguo He, Jiahuan Cao, Junle Liu, Hiuyi Cheng, Lianwen Jin
arXiv:2608. 12133v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Enterprise guideline documents are heterogeneous and multimodal, combining narrative text, complex tables, and embedded images.
By Shivali Dalmia, Sumukha Thoppanahalli, Mohammadreza Sediqin, Abhishek Mukherji
arXiv:2608. 11739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The prevailing recipe for Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models couples a pretrained VLM with a separately trained flow-matching action expert.
By Yicheng Liu, Zibin Dong, Baijun Ye, Tianyuan Yuan, Tao Jiang, Anqi Yang, Shicheng Cao, Haonan Liu, Yue Sun, Zihan Guo, Xiao Liu, Dong Ke, Changxun Pan, Chenru Wu, Tailai Cheng, Xiaoshu Ren, Xinlei Zhang, Jianning Cui, Zijie Zhao, Haoyu Zhang, Kaiming Xu, Haodong Yang, Bowen Zhang, Jiahui Niu, Shaoting Zhu, Shiduo Zhang, Hang Zhao
arXiv:2608. 11354v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Modern recommender systems treat observed actions as reliable proxies for user preferences, yet interactions often reflect exploration or comparison rather than stable preference expression.
By Mengyu Chen, Feiyu Lu, Chun-Fu Chen, Lucas Vinh Tran, Jay Katukuri