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Do VLMs Need Vision Transformers? Evaluating State Space Models as Vision Encoders
Shang-Jui Ray Kuo, Paola Cascante-Bonilla
Large vision--language models (VLMs) often use a frozen vision backbone, whose image features are mapped into a large language model through a lightweight connector. While transfor…
Natural Language Inference Improves Compositionality in Vision-Language Models
Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Yu Hou, Yang Trista Cao +2
Compositional reasoning in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) remains challenging as these models often struggle to relate objects, attributes, and spatial relationships. Recent methods…
PropTest: Automatic Property Testing for Improved Visual Programming
Jaywon Koo, Ziyan Yang, Paola Cascante-Bonilla +2
Visual Programming has recently emerged as an alternative to end-to-end black-box visual reasoning models. This type of method leverages Large Language Models (LLMs) to generate th…
Learning from Synthetic Data for Visual Grounding
Ruozhen He, Ziyan Yang, Paola Cascante-Bonilla +2
This paper extensively investigates the effectiveness of synthetic training data to improve the capabilities of vision-and-language models for grounding textual descriptions to ima…
Grounding Language Models for Visual Entity Recognition
Zilin Xiao, Ming Gong, Paola Cascante-Bonilla +3
We introduce AutoVER, an Autoregressive model for Visual Entity Recognition. Our model extends an autoregressive Multi-modal Large Language Model by employing retrieval augmented c…
Improved Visual Grounding through Self-Consistent Explanations
Ruozhen He, Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Ziyan Yang +2
Vision-and-language models trained to match images with text can be combined with visual explanation methods to point to the locations of specific objects in an image. Our work sho…
Dense and Aligned Captions (DAC) Promote Compositional Reasoning in VL Models
Sivan Doveh, Assaf Arbelle, Sivan Harary +9
Vision and Language (VL) models offer an effective method for aligning representation spaces of images and text, leading to numerous applications such as cross-modal retrieval, vis…
Going Beyond Nouns With Vision & Language Models Using Synthetic Data
Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Khaled Shehada, James Seale Smith +8
Large-scale pre-trained Vision & Language (VL) models have shown remarkable performance in many applications, enabling replacing a fixed set of supported classes with zero-shot ope…
On the Transferability of Visual Features in Generalized Zero-Shot Learning
Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Leonid Karlinsky, James Seale Smith +2
Generalized Zero-Shot Learning (GZSL) aims to train a classifier that can generalize to unseen classes, using a set of attributes as auxiliary information, and the visual features…
CODA-Prompt: COntinual Decomposed Attention-based Prompting for Rehearsal-Free Continual Learning
James Seale Smith, Leonid Karlinsky, Vyshnavi Gutta +6
Computer vision models suffer from a phenomenon known as catastrophic forgetting when learning novel concepts from continuously shifting training data. Typical solutions for this c…
ConStruct-VL: Data-Free Continual Structured VL Concepts Learning
James Seale Smith, Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Assaf Arbelle +7
Recently, large-scale pre-trained Vision-and-Language (VL) foundation models have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in many zero-shot downstream tasks, achieving competitive res…
SimVQA: Exploring Simulated Environments for Visual Question Answering
Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Hui Wu, Letao Wang +2
Existing work on VQA explores data augmentation to achieve better generalization by perturbing the images in the dataset or modifying the existing questions and answers. While thes…
Evolving Image Compositions for Feature Representation Learning
Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Arshdeep Sekhon, Yanjun Qi +1
Convolutional neural networks for visual recognition require large amounts of training samples and usually benefit from data augmentation. This paper proposes PatchMix, a data augm…
Curriculum Labeling: Revisiting Pseudo-Labeling for Semi-Supervised Learning
Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Fuwen Tan, Yanjun Qi +1
In this paper we revisit the idea of pseudo-labeling in the context of semi-supervised learning where a learning algorithm has access to a small set of labeled samples and a large…
Drill-down: Interactive Retrieval of Complex Scenes using Natural Language Queries
Fuwen Tan, Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Xiaoxiao Guo +3
This paper explores the task of interactive image retrieval using natural language queries, where a user progressively provides input queries to refine a set of retrieval results.…
Moviescope: Large-scale Analysis of Movies using Multiple Modalities
Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Kalpathy Sitaraman, Mengjia Luo +1
Film media is a rich form of artistic expression. Unlike photography, and short videos, movies contain a storyline that is deliberately complex and intricate in order to engage its…
Chat-crowd: A Dialog-based Platform for Visual Layout Composition
Paola Cascante-Bonilla, Xuwang Yin, Vicente Ordonez +1
In this paper we introduce Chat-crowd, an interactive environment for visual layout composition via conversational interactions. Chat-crowd supports multiple agents with two conver…