arXiv:2608. 03292v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long Document Visual Question Answering (LongDocVQA) requires Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) to locate, integrate, and reason over heterogeneous document elements distributed across multiple pages.
By Le Xiang, Zhicheng Guan, Hong Chen, Xiaocong Lin, Zhenghua Lei, Teng Hu, Bolei He, Long Zeng
arXiv:2608. 02955v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: This research paper describes an exploratory study on the effectiveness of Chat Debugging: troubleshooting malfunctioning analog circuits on breadboards and printed circuit boards (PCB) by undergraduates through conversations with public-domain large language models (LLMs).
By John Hu, Andrew Ash
arXiv:2608. 03023v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote sensing semantic segmentation is hindered by costly pixel-level annotations, motivating training-free open-vocabulary methods.
By Changhao Zhao, Haoxiang Li, Yuke Li, Hai Liu, LingLin Zeng
arXiv:2604. 27975v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Traditional Shot Boundary Detection (SBD) inherently struggles with complex transitions by formulating the task around isolated cut points, frequently yielding corrupted video shots.
By Ce Chen, Yi Ren, Yuanming Li, Viktor Goriachko, Zhenhui Ye, Zujin Guo, Zhibin Hong, Mingming Gong
arXiv:2608. 03464v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have made significant progress in chart understanding, generation, and editing, but their ability to annotate existing charts remains underexplored.
By Zhenghan Chen, Zekai Shao, Lidan Tan, Xin Lin, Xingchen Zeng, Yi Shan, Ziyue Lin, Xiaoliang Fu, Xinyuan Liu, Yuetong Guo, Fen Wang, Bongshin Lee, Siming Chen
arXiv:2608. 03682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Physical AI policies require inference throughout their lifecycle, including model evaluation, cloud reinforcement learning rollout, edge GPU serving, and onboard deployment.
By Chenghua Wang, Daliang Xu, Dongqi Cai, Duojin Sun, Hao Zhang, Haoze Qian, Huaiyuan Zhang, Jinshuo Cui, Kezhao Zhao, Longxi Gao, Mengwei Xu, Rongjie Yi, Tianyue Zhang, Weikai Xie, Xiyuan Tan, Xuanzhe Liu, Yingying Qin, Yiwen Lu, Yuan Yao, Yuezhi Zu, Yunhan Guo, Ziqi Guo
arXiv:2608. 03150v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative retrieval (GR) is a promising paradigm for industrial search advertising, yet its deployment is constrained by strict relevance and latency requirements.
By Shujie Ji, Yawei Kong, Yilin Zhao, Li Wang, Xialong Liu, Peng Jiang
arXiv:2608. 03270v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: GUI grounding maps natural-language instructions to click locations and is essential for reliable GUI agents.
By Zichuan Fu, Shirong Wang, Wenlin Zhang, Guojing Li, Yimin Deng, Jingtong Gao, Junjia Qi, Hanyu Yan, Yefeng Zheng, Xiaopeng Li, Wanyu Wang, Xian Wu, Xiangyu Zhao
arXiv:2608. 03231v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) policies promise general robotic manipulation, but their robustness against physical-world attacks remains fragile.
By Jinquan Zhang, Dongfu Yin, Run Yang, Yufeng Yan, Zhen Tian, F. Richard Yu
arXiv:2608. 03215v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning for flow-matching text-to-speech is complicated by deterministic ODE sampling: trajectory-level policy-gradient methods typically convert the ODE into an SDE and track per-step likelihood ratios, introducing stochastic perturbations and substantial overhead.
By Guanrou Yang, Tian Tan, Qian Chen, Ziyang Ma, Yakun Song, Zhikang Niu, Qi Chen, Wenming Tu, Haitao Li, Shan Yang, Xie Chen
arXiv:2608. 03204v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are commonly used to align large vision-language models (LVLMs) with human intent and the requirements of visual reasoning tasks.
By Tianbao Jiang, Weicong Ni, Gerard de Melo, Linlin Wang
arXiv:2608. 02615v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Cancer diagnosis and characterization require integrating complementary evidence from radiology, pathology, genomics, and clinical metadata.
By Ahnaf Munir, Dannong Wang, Michael W. McDonald, Mubarak Shah, Pegah Khosravi, Yu Tian
arXiv:2608. 02692v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Access to holistic, multimodal data improves the performance of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medical classification tasks compared to utilizing single modalities or data sources.
By Julia Gehrmann, Lars Quakulinski, Hamza Naseem, Oya Beyan
Large Audio-Language Models (LALMs) excel at general speech understanding; however, adapting them to fine-grained tasks like Speech Emotion Recognition (SER) remains a significant bottleneck. Current Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning (PEFT) methods typically operate in flat Euclidean space, and this geometry fails to capture the multi-granularity nature of emotion cues, which range from low-level prosody to high-level semantics.
Once visual content enters an AI pipeline, its owner often retains little technical control over how it is used. Legal and regulatory remedies can address misuse, but many technical interventions must be applied earlier, when content is released or accessed.
Existing scaling strategies for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) typically expand either model parameters or sequential inference computation, incurring substantial memory or latency overhead. More importantly, most existing methods fail to alter the rigid, fixed computation allocation between the Vision Transformer and the Large Language Model components, limiting task-specific optimization.
Prompt-driven vision-language models (VLMs) hold immense promise for accelerating dense remote sensing (RS) annotation, but static models suffer from severe performance degradation when deployed on novel scenes, unseen categories, or visually confusing backgrounds. Moreover, existing unified paradigms primarily rely on intra-image specific prompts, lacking flexible task routing to adapt to multi-intent operational workflows.
Vision-language models exhibit remarkable zero-shot capabilities but suffer significant performance degradation under distribution shifts. While test-time adaptation (TTA) via Low-Rank Adaptation offers a parameter-efficient solution, we identify a fundamental bottleneck in current methods: the reliance on static rank configurations.
Geospatial and urban applications increasingly require models to compare heterogeneous evidence across street-view imagery, remote-sensing observations, text descriptions, region proposals, and temporal change cues. However, existing multimodal embedding models and benchmarks are still largely designed and evaluated around general-purpose image-text matching, leaving unclear whether unified embedding space can support heterogeneous geospatial tasks involving spatial relationships, fine-grained semantics, and temporal changes.
Vision-Language Models (VLMs), like Large Language Models (LLMs), may memorize sensitive, copyrighted, or harmful knowledge from their pretraining corpora. Removing such knowledge is essential for building trustworthy AI systems.