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19 papers

cs.CV2026

AnyGroundBench: A Specialized-Domain Benchmark for Video Grounding in Vision-Language Models

Rintaro Otsubo, Ryo Fujii, Reina Ishikawa +6

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated immense promise in Spatio-Temporal Video Grounding (STVG). However, current evaluation protocols are largely confined to zero-shot a…

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GenRecal: Generation after Recalibration from Large to Small Vision-Language Models

Byung-Kwan Lee, Ryo Hachiuma, Yong Man Ro +2

Recent advancements in vision-language models (VLMs) have leveraged large language models (LLMs) to achieve performance on par with closed-source systems like GPT-4V. However, depl…

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Zone of Proximal Policy Optimization: Teacher in Prompts, Not Gradients

Byung-Kwan Lee, Ximing Lu, Shizhe Diao +8

Knowledge distillation transfers a teacher's competence to a small student but is brittle in the small-student regime: forcing the student to imitate logits from a much larger teac…

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SpatialClaw: Rethinking Action Interface for Agentic Spatial Reasoning

Seokju Cho, Ryo Hachiuma, Abhishek Badki +8

Spatial reasoning, the ability to determine where objects are, how they relate, and how they move in 3D, remains a fundamental challenge for vision-language models (VLMs). Tool-aug…

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DVSM: Decoder-only View Synthesis Model Done Right

Cheng Sun, Jaesung Choe, Min-Hung Chen +2

Recent Large View Synthesis Models (LVSMs) advocate an encoder-decoder architecture that separates reconstruction and rendering into distinct networks. We re-examine this design. T…

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Agent Explorative Policy Optimization for Multimodal Agentic Reasoning

Minki Kang, Shizhe Diao, Ryo Hachiuma +4

Vision-language models with extended reasoning succeed on complex problems, but many real-world problems require external tools that internal reasoning alone often cannot resolve.…