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Publications (31)

cs.CV2026

RECODE: Reasoning Through Code Generation for Visual Question Answering

Junhong Shen, Mu Cai, Bo Hu +4

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) struggle with precise reasoning for structured visuals like charts and diagrams, as pixel-based perception lacks a mechanism for verificati…

cs.CV2025

Magma: A Foundation Model for Multimodal AI Agents

Jianwei Yang, Reuben Tan, Qianhui Wu +10

We present Magma, a foundation model that serves multimodal AI agentic tasks in both the digital and physical worlds. Magma is a significant extension of vision-language (VL) model…

cs.CV2024

TemporalBench: Benchmarking Fine-grained Temporal Understanding for Multimodal Video Models

Mu Cai, Reuben Tan, Jianrui Zhang +12

Understanding fine-grained temporal dynamics is crucial for multimodal video comprehension and generation. Due to the lack of fine-grained temporal annotations, existing video benc…

cs.CV2023

A Sentence Speaks a Thousand Images: Domain Generalization through Distilling CLIP with Language Guidance

Zeyi Huang, Andy Zhou, Zijian Lin +3

Domain generalization studies the problem of training a model with samples from several domains (or distributions) and then testing the model with samples from a new, unseen domain…

cs.LG2022

VOS: Learning What You Don't Know by Virtual Outlier Synthesis

Xuefeng Du, Zhaoning Wang, Mu Cai +1

Out-of-distribution (OOD) detection has received much attention lately due to its importance in the safe deployment of neural networks. One of the key challenges is that models lac…

cs.CV2026

LLaVA-PruMerge: Adaptive Token Reduction for Efficient Large Multimodal Models

Yuzhang Shang, Mu Cai, Bingxin Xu +2

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have shown significant visual reasoning capabilities by connecting a visual encoder and a large language model. LMMs typically take in a fixed and la…