arXiv:2608. 09928v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) exhibit strong visual understanding, yet the internal features that cause these behaviors remain difficult to identify, audit, or control.
By Hunar Batra, Lachin Naghashyar, Ashkan Khakzar, Philip Torr, Christian Schroeder de Witt, Constantin Venhoff, Ronald Clark
arXiv:2608. 08021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) should answer from concrete image evidence rather than language priors, dataset shortcuts, or irrelevant visual context.
By Haojie Huang, Xinlei Yu, Chengming Xu, Zhangquan Chen, Cheng Yang, Qingdong He, Yu Yang, Jiangning Zhang, Xiaobin Hu
arXiv:2608. 07537v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: In this study, we propose a framework that incorporates subjective evaluations provided by a Vision-Language Model (VLM) into the fitness evaluation and selection processes of a genetic algorithm.
By Shota Miyazaki, Takaya Arita, Reiji Suzuki
arXiv:2608. 07535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) integrate heterogeneous modalities through modality alignment and fusion, enabling stronger understanding and reasoning.
By Xi Li, Shu Zhao, Xiaohan Zou, Fei Zhao, Fuxiao Liu, Yusen Zhang, Cheng Han, Yushun Dong, Jiaqi Wang
arXiv:2608. 09654v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: GUI agents are shifting from metadata-dependent large language models to purely visual multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that operate directly on screenshots.
By Yuke Li, Xuehan Hou
arXiv:2608. 07562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Urban flooding poses an escalating threat to transportation infrastructure, yet no operational system provides real-time, street-level flood-depth estimates at centimeter resolution.
By Nafis Fuad, Xiaodong Qian, Dongxiao Zhu
arXiv:2503. 19990v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many real-world applications of spatial intelligence, such as robotic control, autonomous driving, and automated assembly, require spatial reasoning across multiple sequential steps.
By Kexian Tang, Junyao Gao, Yanhong Zeng, Haodong Duan, Yanan Sun, Zhening Xing, Wenran Liu, Kai Chen, Kaifeng Lyu
arXiv:2608. 09572v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Hyperbolic geometry has recently emerged as a powerful representation space for multimodal learning, as it naturally captures hierarchical semantic structure across modalities.
By Jiahong Liu, Ming Shen, Xiaohao Liu, Rex Ying, Menglin Yang, Tat-Seng Chua, Irwin King
arXiv:2608. 09564v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: UAV vision-language navigation (UAV-VLN) focuses on enabling an aerial agent to follow natural-language instructions in open 3D environments from egocentric visual observations.
By Zeyuan Ma, Jiaxin Chen, Di Huang
arXiv:2604. 08005v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Advancements in multimodal foundation models have enabled the development of Computer Use Agents (CUAs) capable of autonomously interacting with GUI environments.
By Dominik Seip, Matthias Hein
arXiv:2608. 08727v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: To address this gap, we introduce TomaMMU, a large-scale Tomato leaf disease MultiModal Understanding dataset, alongside TomaBench, a benchmark for evaluating VLMs on tomato disease understanding.
By Gia-Han Truong, Khang Nguyen Quoc, Luyl-Da Quach
arXiv:2608. 08815v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Traffic sign recognition (TSR) models based on deep neural networks achieve strong clean-data performance but remain vulnerable to physically realizable adversarial attacks, including shadow perturbations, natural-light interference, and printed patches.
By Pedram MohajerAnsari, Amir Salarpour, Mert D. Pes\'e
arXiv:2608. 09519v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We present a reproducibility study of XFeat, a lightweight local feature extractor and matcher designed to identify corresponding points across images efficiently on resource-constrained hardware.
By Lazar {\DJ}okovi\'c, Aimee Lin
arXiv:2608. 07557v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Navigation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV-VLN) requires rapid and reactive control in complex 3D environments.
By Peng Xu, Chengcheng Wang, Shaohua Wan
arXiv:2608. 08960v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multi-step language-model agents repeatedly process growing interaction histories, leading to substantial context costs.
By Cheng Fan, Junyi Zhou, Tingzhang Luo, RongJian Xu, Qiyanhui Lu, Mingjian Zhu, Hanting Chen, Jianyuan Guo
arXiv:2608. 08907v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Thinking with images allows a multimodal model to compensate for limited perception by invoking visual tools through code.
By Delin Mao, Chenghao Sun, Jingwei Song, Chishui Chen, Linfeng Zhang
arXiv:2608. 09240v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal federated learning (FL) supports collaborative modeling in privacy-sensitive health-sensing and medical settings, but realistic deployments often exhibit dual-axis modality missingness: clients have different modality sets, and individual samples may contain only subsets of the modalities available locally.
By Adiba Orzikulova, Jaehyun Kwak, Jaemin Shin, Yunqi Guo, Xiaomin Ouyang, Guoliang Xing, Steven Euijong Whang, Sung-Ju Lee
arXiv:2608. 07533v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: An embodied agent is an intelligent entity that interacts with its environment through a physical body.
By Gengyang Xu, Dongwei Xiao, Yiteng Peng, Shuai Wang
arXiv:2512. 08462v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Decoding brain states from functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data is vital for advancing neuroscience and clinical applications.
By Danial Jafarzadeh Jazi, Maryam Hajiesmaeili
arXiv:2608. 07886v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language grounding connects language to visual content, yet most existing formulations reduce grounding to a unidirectional localization problem: given a prespecified text phrase or category name, identify the corresponding image region.
By Jieyu Zhang, Ziqi Gao, Luke Zettlemoyer, Ranjay Krishna