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cs.CV2026

LaViDa: A Large Diffusion Language Model for Multimodal Understanding

Shufan Li, Konstantinos Kallidromitis, Hritik Bansal +7

LaViDa introduces a diffusion-based vision-language model that combines a vision encoder with discrete diffusion to enable fast parallel decoding and controllable multimodal genera…

cs.AI2026

OpenThoughts-Agent: Data Recipes for Agentic Models

Negin Raoof, Richard Zhuang, Marianna Nezhurina +47

Agentic language models dramatically expand the applications of AI yet little is publicly known about how to curate training data for broadly capable agents. Existing open efforts…

cs.CV2026

HoneyBee: Data Recipes for Vision-Language Reasoners

Hritik Bansal, Devendra Singh Sachan, Kai-Wei Chang +4

Recent advances in vision-language models (VLMs) have made them highly effective at reasoning tasks. However, the principles underlying the construction of performant VL reasoning…

cs.CV2025

OpenVLThinker: Complex Vision-Language Reasoning via Iterative SFT-RL Cycles

Yihe Deng, Hritik Bansal, Fan Yin +3

We introduce OpenVLThinker, one of the first open-source large vision-language models (LVLMs) to exhibit sophisticated chain-of-thought reasoning, achieving notable performance gai…

cs.LG2025

OpenThoughts: Data Recipes for Reasoning Models

Etash Guha, Ryan Marten, Sedrick Keh +47

Reasoning models have made rapid progress on many benchmarks involving math, code, and science. Yet, there are still many open questions about the best training recipes for reasoni…

cs.AI2025

MedMax: Mixed-Modal Instruction Tuning for Training Biomedical Assistants

Hritik Bansal, Daniel Israel, Siyan Zhao +3

Recent advancements in mixed-modal generative have opened new avenues for developing unified biomedical assistants capable of analyzing biomedical images, answering complex questio…