4 papers
VEGAS: Human-Aligned Video Caption Evaluation via Gaze
Shenghui Chen, Po-han Li, Ximeng Sun +5
Vision-language models excel at video captioning, yet typically generate descriptions that fail to capture individual viewers' attention. We propose VEGAS (Video caption Evaluation…
CaptionQA: Is Your Caption as Useful as the Image Itself?
Shijia Yang, Yunong Liu, Bohan Zhai +5
Image captions serve as efficient surrogates for visual content in multimodal systems such as retrieval, recommendation, and multi-step agentic inference pipelines. Yet current eva…
Squeeze Evolve: Unified Multi-Model Orchestration for Verifier-Free Evolution
Monishwaran Maheswaran, Leon Lakhani, Zhongzhu Zhou +16
We show that verifier-free evolution is bottlenecked by both diversity and efficiency: without external correction, repeated evolution accelerates collapse toward narrow modes, whi…
Law of Vision Representation in MLLMs
Shijia Yang, Bohan Zhai, Quanzeng You +3
We present the "Law of Vision Representation" in multimodal large language models (MLLMs). It reveals a strong correlation between the combination of cross-modal alignment, corresp…