Multimodal models

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

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arXiv AI
Aug 5

DocTrace: Towards Traceable Long Document VQA via Hierarchical Evidence Graph Reasoning

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 AI
Aug 5

TransVLM: A Vision-Language Framework and Benchmark for Detecting Any Shot Transitions

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 AI
Aug 5

ChartAnno: Evaluating MLLMs for Chart Annotation Generation

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 AI
Aug 5

PhyAI: Real-Time Physical AI at the Edge, Scalable Rollouts in the Cloud

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 AI
Aug 5

GROW: Group-Relative Advantage-Weighted On-Policy Reinforcement Learning of Autoregressive-Diffusion Text-to-Speech model

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
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 5

HyPASE: Hyperbolic Geometry for Parameter-Efficient Speech Emotion Fine-Tuning Framework for Large Audio-Language Models

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.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4

ParVL: Parallel Scaling and Expandable Compute Allocation for Multimodal LLMs

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.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4

UniEvo-RS: Omni-Prompt Unified Remote Sensing Segmentation with Representative Exemplar-Driven Prototype Evolution

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.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4

MuRA: Multi-Rank Adaptation for Efficient and Effective Test-Time Vision-Language Generalization

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.

Hugging Face Trending Papers
Aug 4

Geo-Embed: Towards Unified Multimodal Embeddings for Urban Understanding

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.