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

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arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Advancing Relevance Measurement with Vision-Language Models for Web-Scale Search

arXiv:2608. 02446v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Relevance evaluation plays a crucial role in personalized search systems, serving as a guardrail alongside user engagement metrics to ensure that search results align with user queries and intent.

By Han Wang, Alex Whitworth, Pak Ming Cheung, Zhenjie Zhang, Krishna Kamath, Xi Chen, Roberto Konow, Kurchi Subhra Hazra
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

GeoFlowVLM: Geometry-Aware Joint Uncertainty for Frozen Vision-Language Embedding

arXiv:2605. 13352v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Standard dual-encoder vision-language models that map images and text to deterministic points on a shared unit hypersphere through $\ell_2$ normalization typically expose neither \emph{aleatoric} uncertainty (cross-modal ambiguity) nor \emph{epistemic} uncertainty (lack of training-distribution support).

By Mayank Nautiyal, Li Ju, Andreas Hellander, Ekta Vats, Prashant Singh
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 4

Slot2Text: Object-Centric Visual Tokenization for Efficient and Spatially Traceable Surgical MLLMs

arXiv:2608. 01473v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLM) for surgical scene understanding typically inject hundreds of dense visual tokens into a language model, leading to costly inference and limited spatial traceability for generated answers.

By Guiqiu Liao, Matjaz Jogan, Daniel A. Hashimoto
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

Can Foundation Models Hear What Made That Sound? A Tiered Benchmark of Audio-Language Models and Traditional Classifiers for Closed-Set Sound Source Identification

We benchmark eleven audio classification methods: five task-aware closed-set LLMs (four Gemini models plus open-weight Kimi-Audio-7B-Instruct), four fixed-vocabulary taggers (YAMNet, PANNs, Whisper-AT, and SSLAM), a zero-shot audio-text model (CLAP), and an audio-grounded LLM (BAT). We evaluate them on a closed-set sound-source identification task over 2,242 clips spanning 23 fine-grained classes and 11 categories.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

MIEScore: Human-Aligned Evaluation for Multi-Source Image Editing

Recent advances in unified multimodal models have significantly improved text-guided image editing abilities. In particular, models such as Nano-Banana-Pro and GPT-Image-2 demonstrate emerging capabilities in multi-source image editing (MIE), including tasks such as object synthesis, person-background composition, and cross-image style fusion.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

TALSC: Timeliness-Aware Large-Small VLM Collaboration for Infrastructure-Assisted Autonomous Driving

The deployment of Vision-Language Models (VLMs) in autonomous driving (AD) systems is constrained by on-board computing power, restricting vehicles to small VLMs (SVLMs) with limited perception and reasoning capabilities. Infrastructure-assisted AD alleviates this resource constraint by enabling collaboration with large VLMs (LVLMs) at edge servers.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 3

SpatialQuery: Benchmarking Geometry-Grounded Multi-Instance Spatial Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong semantic understanding but remain unreliable in metric spatial reasoning, particularly when queries require comparing multiple instances of the same object category. We study this problem through the Closest-Instance Distance Query (CIDQ), where a model must identify the nearest visible candidate to a unique reference object and estimate their gravity-aligned floor-plane distance.

arXiv AI
Aug 3

M3MAD-Bench: Multi-Dimensional Evaluation of Multi-Agent Debate Across Domains and Modalities

arXiv:2601. 02854v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: As an agent-level reasoning and coordination paradigm, Multi-Agent Debate (MAD) orchestrates multiple agents through structured debate to improve answer quality and support complex reasoning.

By Ao Li, Jinghui Zhang, Luyu Li, Yuxiang Duan, Lang Gao, Mingcai Chen, Weijun Qin, Shaopeng Li, Fengxian Ji, Ning Liu, Lizhen Cui, Xiuying Chen, Yuntao Du
arXiv AI
Aug 3

Looks Right, Works Right: A Project-Level Benchmark for Multi-Screen Mobile App Generation

arXiv:2607. 28645v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models can convert visual designs directly into executable code, but real mobile products require multiple screenshots to become a buildable codebase with shared components and working navigation.

By Fan Wu, Cuiyun Gao, Yiming Huang, Yang Xiao, Yujia Chen, Qing Liao
arXiv AI
Aug 3

Multimodal Reinforcement Learning with Adaptive Verifier for AI Agents

arXiv:2512. 03438v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Agentic reasoning models trained with multimodal reinforcement learning (MMRL) have become increasingly capable, yet they are almost universally optimized using sparse, outcome-based rewards computed based on the final answers.

By Reuben Tan, Baolin Peng, Zhengyuan Yang, Hao Cheng, Oier Mees, Theodore Zhao, Andrea Tupini, Isar Meijer, Qianhui Wu, Yuncong Yang, Lars Liden, Yu Gu, Sheng Zhang, Xiaodong Liu, Lijuan Wang, Marc Pollefeys, Yong Jae Lee, Jianfeng Gao
arXiv AI
Aug 3

COSI-Lab: Conference Living Lab for Modeling Multi-Perspective Multimodal Social Intention

arXiv:2607. 28649v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: COSI-Lab presents a multimodal, multi-sensor dataset of an interdisciplinary scientific workshop containing 32 academics at an international conference.

By Zonghuan Li, Litian Li, Arthur Mercier, Gara Dorta, Balint Dioszegi, Jose Morales-Vargas, Chenxu Hao, Ivan Kondyurin, Vanessa Begemann, Nale Lehmann-Willenbrock, Bernd Dudzik, Saunaq Chakrabarty, Sotiris Vacanas, Laura Cabrera-Quir\'os, Anne L. J. ter Wal, Vitaliy Popov, Jorge Castro-God\'inez, Chirag Raman, Stephanie Tan, Hayley Hung
arXiv AI
Aug 3

AREA3D: Active Reconstruction Agent with Unified Feed-Forward 3D Perception and Vision-Language Guidance

arXiv:2512. 05131v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Active 3D reconstruction enables an agent to autonomously select viewpoints to efficiently obtain accurate and complete scene geometry, rather than passively reconstructing scenes from pre-collected images.

By Tianling Xu, Shengzhe Gan, Leslie Gu, Yuelei Li, Fangneng Zhan, Hanspeter Pfister
arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 3

What Is Missing in Surgical Risk Stratification and Outcome Prediction: A Scoping Review of End-to-End Machine Learning Approaches

arXiv:2607. 29090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Postoperative adverse events, including mortality and morbidity, remain a major global burden, many of which are preventable through early identification of high-risk patients and targeted perioperative care.

By Yizhi Dong, Yuhe Ke, Hairil Rizal Abdullah, Yucheng Xing, Kevan Kai Bing Teo, Ling Huang, Mengling Feng