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 Machine Learning
Jul 14

Towards Real-World Wearable Motion Reconstruction

arXiv:2607. 09780v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The modern-day surge in popularity of wearable devices poses a fundamentally unique motion capture problem: reconstructing full-body movement from any set of sensing hardware worn at a given moment.

By Andrea Boscolo Camiletto, Rishabh Dabral, Eduardo Alvarado, Thabo Beeler, Marc Habermann, Christian Theobalt
arXiv AI
Jul 14

MorphologyFM: A Foundation Model for Morphology-Aware Representation Learning from ECG and Pulse Oximetry Waveforms

arXiv:2607. 09749v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Foundation models have recently emerged as a powerful paradigm for learning transferable representations from large scale biomedical data, yet existing approaches for physiological waveforms primarily optimize reconstruction or forecasting objectives that do not explicitly preserve clinically meaningful waveform morphology.

By Saiyang Feng, Yuanyun Zhang, Shi Li
arXiv AI
Jul 14

ReflectWorld-MM: An Entity-Oriented Multi-Media Memory System for Open-Ended Video Streams

arXiv:2607. 09759v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Building assistants that can continually watch the world, remember what they see, and reason over their accumulated experience is a long-standing goal, and recently multimodal agents equipped with long-term memory over video streams have attracted increasing interest.

By Xiaokang Ma, Yifan Sun, Zhihong Jin, Jie Gu, Yudong Luo, Shenyi Shao, Chu Tang, Jingmin Chen, Li Pu
arXiv AI
Jul 14

Think When It Matters: Conditional VLM Reasoning for Social Navigation with RL Policies

arXiv:2607. 10991v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: As mobile robots become more integrated into everyday human environments, social robot navigation is becoming essential for ensuring human comfort, safety, and trust.

By Ali Ahmadi, Hamed Rahimi, Adrien Jacquet Cretides, Marie Samson, Mahdi Khoramshahi, Mohamed Chetouani
arXiv AI
Jul 14

IntentVLA: Short-Horizon Intent Modeling for Aliased Robot Manipulation

arXiv:2605. 14712v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Robot imitation data are often multimodal: similar visual-language observations may be followed by different action chunks because human demonstrators act with different short-horizon intents, task phases, or recent context.

By Shijie Lian, Bin Yu, Xiaopeng Lin, Zhaolong Shen, Laurence Tianruo Yang, Yurun Jin, Haishan Liu, Changti Wu, Hang Yuan, Cong Huang, Kai Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 14

Can Argus Judge Them All? Comparing VLMs Across Domains

arXiv:2507. 01042v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) are increasingly used in industry VLM applications such as retrieval systems, content generation platforms, and decision-support workflows, where model selection is commonly guided by benchmark rankings.

By Harsh Joshi, Gautam Siddharth Kashyap, Rafiq Ali, Ebad Shabbir, Niharika Jain, Sarthak Jain, Jiechao Gao, Usman Naseem
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 14

BARD: Bridging AutoRegressive and Diffusion Vision-Language Models Via Highly Efficient Progressive Block Merging and Stage-Wise Distillation

arXiv:2604. 16514v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Autoregressive vision-language models (VLMs) deliver strong multimodal capability, but their token-by-token decoding imposes a fundamental inference bottleneck.

By Baoyou Chen, Hanchen Xia, Peng Tu, Haojun Shi, Liwei Zhang, Yuxuan Yao, Weihao Yuan, Siyu Zhu
arXiv AI
Jul 14

Lifelong Representations: A Survey on Continual Self-Supervised Learning for Vision Models

arXiv:2607. 09785v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traditionally, continual learning has assumed access to labeled data, yet many real-world applications -- such as lifelong robotics -- require models to adapt continuously from unlabeled streams.

By Sergi Masip, Alicja Dobrzeniecka, Jonathan Swinnen, Joachim Collin, Bart{\l}omiej Twardowski, Szymon {\L}ukasik, Tinne Tuytelaars