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most citedBenchmarking Multi-Image Understanding in Vision and Language Models: Perception, Knowledge, Reasoning, and Multi-Hop Reasoning

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27 papers

cs.LG2026

Breaking the Structural Identity: Personalized Federated LoRA Fine-tuning under Rank Heterogeneity

Lei Wang, Jieming Bian, Letian Zhang +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have achieved remarkable success across diverse domains, but their adaptation to privacy-sensitive, distributed datasets remains a challenge. While Fed…

cs.DC2026

Importance-Aware Resource Allocation for Collaborative Task-Oriented Semantic Communication

Kaiyi Lei, Yuanzhe Peng, Letian Zhang +1

Task-oriented semantic communication must allocate scarce radio resources to semantic features under fast fading wireless conditions and strict end-to-end latency budgets. Existing…

cs.CR2026

Your Agent, Their Asset: A Real-World Safety Analysis of OpenClaw

Zijun Wang, Haoqin Tu, Letian Zhang +11

OpenClaw, the most widely deployed personal AI agent in early 2026, operates with full local system access and integrates with sensitive services such as Gmail, Stripe, and the fil…

cs.CV2026

Kestrel: Grounding Self-Refinement for LVLM Hallucination Mitigation

Jiawei Mao, Hardy Chen, Haoqin Tu +7

Large vision-language models (LVLMs) have become increasingly strong but remain prone to hallucinations in multimodal tasks, which significantly narrows their deployment. As traini…

cs.LG2026

FedTreeLoRA: Reconciling Statistical and Functional Heterogeneity in Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning

Jieming Bian, Lei Wang, Letian Zhang +1

Federated Learning (FL) with Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) has become a standard for privacy-preserving LLM fine-tuning. However, existing personalized methods predominantly operated…

cs.CL2026★ 1 cited

MiniCPM-SALA: Hybridizing Sparse and Linear Attention for Efficient Long-Context Modeling

MiniCPM Team, Wenhao An, Yingfa Chen +44

The evolution of large language models (LLMs) towards applications with ultra-long contexts faces challenges posed by the high computational and memory costs of the Transformer arc…

cs.CV2026

A Unified and Controllable Framework for Layered Image Generation with Visual Effects

Jinrui Yang, Qing Liu, Yijun Li +5

Recent image generation models produce impressive composites, but often fail to preserve the identity of user-provided content when editing specific elements: the surrounding scene…

eess.IV2026

OpenVision 3: A Family of Unified Visual Encoder for Both Understanding and Generation

Letian Zhang, Sucheng Ren, Yanqing Liu +9

This paper presents a family of advanced vision encoder, named OpenVision 3, that learns a single, unified visual representation that can serve both image understanding and image g…

cs.LG2025

Adaptive LoRA Experts Allocation and Selection for Federated Fine-Tuning

Lei Wang, Jieming Bian, Letian Zhang +1

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive capabilities across various tasks, but fine-tuning them for domain-specific applications often requires substantial domain…

cs.LG2025

FedEL: Federated Elastic Learning for Heterogeneous Devices

Letian Zhang, Bo Chen, Jieming Bian +2

Federated learning (FL) enables distributed devices to collaboratively train machine learning models while maintaining data privacy. However, the heterogeneous hardware capabilitie…

cs.AI2025

Enhancing Retrieval Augmentation via Adversarial Collaboration

Letian Zhang, Guanghao Meng, Xudong Ren +2

Retrieval-augmented Generation (RAG) is a prevalent approach for domain-specific LLMs, yet it is often plagued by "Retrieval Hallucinations"--a phenomenon where fine-tuned models f…

cs.CV2025

OpenVision 2: A Family of Generative Pretrained Visual Encoders for Multimodal Learning

Yanqing Liu, Xianhang Li, Letian Zhang +4

This paper provides a simplification on OpenVision's architecture and loss design for enhancing its training efficiency. Following the prior vision-language pretraining works CapPa…

cs.CV2025

GPT-IMAGE-EDIT-1.5M: A Million-Scale, GPT-Generated Image Dataset

Yuhan Wang, Siwei Yang, Bingchen Zhao +4

Recent advancements in large multimodal models like GPT-4o have set a new standard for high-fidelity, instruction-guided image editing. However, the proprietary nature of these mod…

cs.CV2025

EvdCLIP: Improving Vision-Language Retrieval with Entity Visual Descriptions from Large Language Models

GuangHao Meng, Sunan He, Jinpeng Wang +7

Vision-language retrieval (VLR) has attracted significant attention in both academia and industry, which involves using text (or images) as queries to retrieve corresponding images…

cs.CV2025

Oasis: One Image is All You Need for Multimodal Instruction Data Synthesis

Letian Zhang, Quan Cui, Bingchen Zhao +1

The success of multi-modal large language models (MLLMs) has been largely attributed to the large-scale training data. However, the training data of many MLLMs is unavailable due t…

cs.LG2025

FedALT: Federated Fine-Tuning through Adaptive Local Training with Rest-of-World LoRA

Jieming Bian, Lei Wang, Letian Zhang +1

Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) in federated settings enables privacy-preserving adaptation but suffers from cross-client interference due to model aggregation. Existing f…

cs.LG2024

LoRA-FAIR: Federated LoRA Fine-Tuning with Aggregation and Initialization Refinement

Jieming Bian, Lei Wang, Letian Zhang +1

Foundation models (FMs) achieve strong performance across diverse tasks with task-specific fine-tuning, yet full parameter fine-tuning is often computationally prohibitive for larg…

cs.LG2024

Learning the Optimal Path and DNN Partition for Collaborative Edge Inference

Yin Huang, Letian Zhang, Jie Xu

Recent advancements in Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have catalyzed the development of numerous intelligent mobile applications and services. However, they also introduce significant…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Benchmarking Multi-Image Understanding in Vision and Language Models: Perception, Knowledge, Reasoning, and Multi-Hop Reasoning

Bingchen Zhao, Yongshuo Zong, Letian Zhang +1

The advancement of large language models (LLMs) has significantly broadened the scope of applications in natural language processing, with multi-modal LLMs extending these capabili…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

ImageNet3D: Towards General-Purpose Object-Level 3D Understanding

Wufei Ma, Guanning Zeng, Guofeng Zhang +5

A vision model with general-purpose object-level 3D understanding should be capable of inferring both 2D (e.g., class name and bounding box) and 3D information (e.g., 3D location a…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Pre-Trained Vision-Language Models as Partial Annotators

Qian-Wei Wang, Yuqiu Xie, Letian Zhang +2

Pre-trained vision-language models learn massive data to model unified representations of images and natural languages, which can be widely applied to downstream machine learning t…

cs.LG2024★ 1 cited

Taming Cross-Domain Representation Variance in Federated Prototype Learning with Heterogeneous Data Domains

Lei Wang, Jieming Bian, Letian Zhang +2

Federated learning (FL) allows collaborative machine learning training without sharing private data. While most FL methods assume identical data domains across clients, real-world…

cs.CV2023

IL-NeRF: Incremental Learning for Neural Radiance Fields with Camera Pose Alignment

Letian Zhang, Ming Li, Chen Chen +1

Neural radiance fields (NeRF) is a promising approach for generating photorealistic images and representing complex scenes. However, when processing data sequentially, it can suffe…

cs.CL2023

What If the TV Was Off? Examining Counterfactual Reasoning Abilities of Multi-modal Language Models

Letian Zhang, Xiaotong Zhai, Zhongkai Zhao +3

Counterfactual reasoning, a fundamental aspect of human cognition, involves contemplating alternatives to established facts or past events, significantly enhancing our abilities in…