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cs.CV2026

JoLT: Joint Latent Trajectories for Context-Guided High-Resolution Tiled Generation

Mathis Koroglu, Guillaume Jeanneret, Hugo Caselles-Dupré +2

Although text-to-image generative models produce impressive results, they struggle to generate densely detailed, high-resolution (HR) images. Current literature addresses this issu…

cs.CV2026

Spatially-Grounded Text-to-Video Generation via Inference-Time Gradient-Free Optimization

Guillaume Jeanneret, Mathis Koroglu, Hugo Caselles-Dupré +2

Diffusion Transformer Text-to-Video models have achieved remarkable synthesis quality, yet fine-grained spatial controllability remains a significant challenge. While existing trai…

cs.RO2026

DiMaS: Distribution Matching for Steering Vision-Language-Action Models

Pegah Khayatan, Sara Meziane, Jayneel Parekh +1

Flow-matching-based vision-language-action (VLA) models have emerged as powerful policies for robotic manipulation, yet a critical capability remains underexplored: fine-grained be…

cs.CV2026

When Prompts Override Vision: Prompt-Induced Hallucinations in LVLMs

Pegah Khayatan, Jayneel Parekh, Arnaud Dapogny +3

Despite impressive progress in capabilities of large vision-language models (LVLMs), these systems remain vulnerable to hallucinations, i.e., outputs that are not grounded in the v…

cs.CV2025

SSDD: Single-Step Diffusion Decoder for Efficient Image Tokenization

Théophane Vallaeys, Jakob Verbeek, Matthieu Cord

Tokenizers are a key component of state-of-the-art generative image models, extracting the most important features from the signal while reducing data dimension and redundancy. Mos…

cs.LG2025

Learning to Steer: Input-dependent Steering for Multimodal LLMs

Jayneel Parekh, Pegah Khayatan, Mustafa Shukor +3

Steering has emerged as a practical approach to enable post-hoc guidance of LLMs towards enforcing a specific behavior. However, it remains largely underexplored for multimodal LLM…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

SmolVLA: A Vision-Language-Action Model for Affordable and Efficient Robotics

Mustafa Shukor, Dana Aubakirova, Francesco Capuano +11

Vision-language models (VLMs) pretrained on large-scale multimodal datasets encode rich visual and linguistic knowledge, making them a strong foundation for robotics. Rather than t…

cs.CV2025

Scaling Laws for Native Multimodal Models

Mustafa Shukor, Enrico Fini, Victor Guilherme Turrisi da Costa +3

Building general-purpose models that can effectively perceive the world through multimodal signals has been a long-standing goal. Current approaches involve integrating separately…

cs.AI2025★ 2 cited

Analyzing Finetuning Representation Shift for Multimodal LLMs Steering

Pegah Khayatan, Mustafa Shukor, Jayneel Parekh +2

Multimodal LLMs (MLLMs) have reached remarkable levels of proficiency in understanding multimodal inputs. However, understanding and interpreting the behavior of such complex model…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

OnlyFlow: Optical Flow based Motion Conditioning for Video Diffusion Models

Mathis Koroglu, Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Guillaume Jeanneret Sanmiguel +1

We consider the problem of text-to-video generation tasks with precise control for various applications such as camera movement control and video-to-video editing. Most methods tac…

cs.CV2024

Skipping Computations in Multimodal LLMs

Mustafa Shukor, Matthieu Cord

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in both textual and multimodal domains. However, this success often comes with substantial computational costs, pa…

cs.LG2024★ 3 cited

A Concept-Based Explainability Framework for Large Multimodal Models

Jayneel Parekh, Pegah Khayatan, Mustafa Shukor +2

Large multimodal models (LMMs) combine unimodal encoders and large language models (LLMs) to perform multimodal tasks. Despite recent advancements towards the interpretability of t…

cs.CV2024

DiffCut: Catalyzing Zero-Shot Semantic Segmentation with Diffusion Features and Recursive Normalized Cut

Paul Couairon, Mustafa Shukor, Jean-Emmanuel Haugeard +2

Foundation models have emerged as powerful tools across various domains including language, vision, and multimodal tasks. While prior works have addressed unsupervised image segmen…

q-bio.NC2024

Mind-to-Image: Projecting Visual Mental Imagination of the Brain from fMRI

Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Charles Mellerio, Paul Hérent +6

The reconstruction of images observed by subjects from fMRI data collected during visual stimuli has made strong progress in the past decade, thanks to the availability of extensiv…

cs.CV2024★ 18 cited

What matters when building vision-language models?

Hugo Laurençon, Léo Tronchon, Matthieu Cord +1

The growing interest in vision-language models (VLMs) has been driven by improvements in large language models and vision transformers. Despite the abundance of literature on this…

cs.CV2024

Implicit Multimodal Alignment: On the Generalization of Frozen LLMs to Multimodal Inputs

Mustafa Shukor, Matthieu Cord

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated impressive performance on multimodal tasks, without any multimodal finetuning. They are the building block for Large Multimodal Model…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

What Makes Multimodal In-Context Learning Work?

Folco Bertini Baldassini, Mustafa Shukor, Matthieu Cord +2

Large Language Models have demonstrated remarkable performance across various tasks, exhibiting the capacity to swiftly acquire new skills, such as through In-Context Learning (ICL…

cs.CV2024

Improved Baselines for Data-efficient Perceptual Augmentation of LLMs

Théophane Vallaeys, Mustafa Shukor, Matthieu Cord +1

The abilities of large language models (LLMs) have recently progressed to unprecedented levels, paving the way to novel applications in a wide variety of areas. In computer vision,…

cs.CV2024

FreeSeg-Diff: Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation with Diffusion Models

Barbara Toniella Corradini, Mustafa Shukor, Paul Couairon +3

Foundation models have exhibited unprecedented capabilities in tackling many domains and tasks. Models such as CLIP are currently widely used to bridge cross-modal representations,…