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most citedFerret: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at Any Granularity

43 citations · 78 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cs.CL2026★ 2 cited

ERNIE 5.0 Technical Report

Haifeng Wang, Hua Wu, Tian Wu +432

In this report, we introduce ERNIE 5.0, a natively autoregressive foundation model desinged for unified multimodal understanding and generation across text, image, video, and audio…

cs.LG2025

MoETTA: Test-Time Adaptation Under Mixed Distribution Shifts with MoE-LayerNorm

Xiao Fan, Jingyan Jiang, Zhaoru Chen +6

Test-Time adaptation (TTA) has proven effective in mitigating performance drops under single-domain distribution shifts by updating model parameters during inference. However, real…

cs.CV2025

MANZANO: A Simple and Scalable Unified Multimodal Model with a Hybrid Vision Tokenizer

Yanghao Li, Rui Qian, Bowen Pan +24

Unified multimodal Large Language Models (LLMs) that can both understand and generate visual content hold immense potential. However, existing open-source models often suffer from…

cs.CV2025★ 2 cited

Thinking With Videos: Multimodal Tool-Augmented Reinforcement Learning for Long Video Reasoning

Haoji Zhang, Xin Gu, Jiawen Li +7

The video reasoning ability of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is crucial for downstream tasks like video question answering and temporal grounding. While recent approache…

cs.LG2025

Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models: Tech Report 2025

Ethan Li, Anders Boesen Lindbo Larsen, Chen Zhang +395

We introduce two multilingual, multimodal foundation language models that power Apple Intelligence features across Apple devices and services: i a 3B-parameter on-device model opti…

cs.LG2025

AXLearn: Modular, Hardware-Agnostic Large Model Training

Mark Lee, Chang Lan, Tom Gunter +34

AXLearn is a production system which facilitates scalable and high-performance training of large deep learning models. Compared to other state-of-art deep learning systems, AXLearn…

eess.AS2025

MiniMax-Speech: Intrinsic Zero-Shot Text-to-Speech with a Learnable Speaker Encoder

Bowen Zhang, Congchao Guo, Geng Yang +17

We introduce MiniMax-Speech, an autoregressive Transformer-based Text-to-Speech (TTS) model that generates high-quality speech. A key innovation is our learnable speaker encoder, w…

cs.CV2025★ 1 cited

DiT-Air: Revisiting the Efficiency of Diffusion Model Architecture Design in Text to Image Generation

Chen Chen, Rui Qian, Wenze Hu +8

In this work, we empirically study Diffusion Transformers (DiTs) for text-to-image generation, focusing on architectural choices, text-conditioning strategies, and training protoco…

cs.CV2025

CLIP-UP: A Simple and Efficient Mixture-of-Experts CLIP Training Recipe with Sparse Upcycling

Xinze Wang, Chen Chen, Yinfei Yang +5

Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) models are crucial for scaling model capacity while controlling inference costs. While integrating MoE into multimodal models like CLIP improves performanc…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Learning from Different Samples: A Source-free Framework for Semi-supervised Domain Adaptation

Xinyang Huang, Chuang Zhu, Bowen Zhang +1

Semi-supervised domain adaptation (SSDA) has been widely studied due to its ability to utilize a few labeled target data to improve the generalization ability of the model. However…

cs.AI2024

Improve Vision Language Model Chain-of-thought Reasoning

Ruohong Zhang, Bowen Zhang, Yanghao Li +6

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning in vision language models (VLMs) is crucial for improving interpretability and trustworthiness. However, current training recipes lack robust CoT r…

cs.LG2024

Toward Physics-guided Time Series Embedding

Jiaxi Hu, Bowen Zhang, Qingsong Wen +2

In various scientific and engineering fields, the primary research areas have revolved around physics-based dynamical systems modeling and data-driven time series analysis. Accordi…

cs.CV2024

Revisit Large-Scale Image-Caption Data in Pre-training Multimodal Foundation Models

Zhengfeng Lai, Vasileios Saveris, Chen Chen +9

Recent advancements in multimodal models highlight the value of rewritten captions for improving performance, yet key challenges remain. For example, while synthetic captions often…

cs.CV2024

MM-Ego: Towards Building Egocentric Multimodal LLMs for Video QA

Hanrong Ye, Haotian Zhang, Erik Daxberger +9

This research aims to comprehensively explore building a multimodal foundation model for egocentric video understanding. To achieve this goal, we work on three fronts. First, as th…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

Contrastive Localized Language-Image Pre-Training

Hong-You Chen, Zhengfeng Lai, Haotian Zhang +7

Contrastive Language-Image Pre-training (CLIP) has been a celebrated method for training vision encoders to generate image/text representations facilitating various applications. R…

cs.CV2024

EC-DIT: Scaling Diffusion Transformers with Adaptive Expert-Choice Routing

Haotian Sun, Tao Lei, Bowen Zhang +5

Diffusion transformers have been widely adopted for text-to-image synthesis. While scaling these models up to billions of parameters shows promise, the effectiveness of scaling bey…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

MM1.5: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Fine-tuning

Haotian Zhang, Mingfei Gao, Zhe Gan +20

We present MM1.5, a new family of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) designed to enhance capabilities in text-rich image understanding, visual referring and grounding, and mu…

cs.CV2024

LSReGen: Large-Scale Regional Generator via Backward Guidance Framework

Bowen Zhang, Cheng Yang, Xuanhui Liu

In recent years, advancements in AIGC (Artificial Intelligence Generated Content) technology have significantly enhanced the capabilities of large text-to-image models. Despite the…

cs.AI2024★ 4 cited

Apple Intelligence Foundation Language Models

Tom Gunter, Zirui Wang, Chong Wang +152

We present foundation language models developed to power Apple Intelligence features, including a ~3 billion parameter model designed to run efficiently on devices and a large serv…

cs.CV2024★ 11 cited

MM1: Methods, Analysis & Insights from Multimodal LLM Pre-training

Brandon McKinzie, Zhe Gan, Jean-Philippe Fauconnier +29

In this work, we discuss building performant Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). In particular, we study the importance of various architecture components and data choices. T…

cs.CV2024

Ferret-v2: An Improved Baseline for Referring and Grounding with Large Language Models

Haotian Zhang, Haoxuan You, Philipp Dufter +8

While Ferret seamlessly integrates regional understanding into the Large Language Model (LLM) to facilitate its referring and grounding capability, it poses certain limitations: co…

cs.CV2023★ 1 cited

Multimodal Large Language Model for Visual Navigation

Yao-Hung Hubert Tsai, Vansh Dhar, Jialu Li +2

Recent efforts to enable visual navigation using large language models have mainly focused on developing complex prompt systems. These systems incorporate instructions, observation…

cs.CV2023★ 43 cited

Ferret: Refer and Ground Anything Anywhere at Any Granularity

Haoxuan You, Haotian Zhang, Zhe Gan +6

We introduce Ferret, a new Multimodal Large Language Model (MLLM) capable of understanding spatial referring of any shape or granularity within an image and accurately grounding op…

cs.CL2023★ 2 cited

Compressing LLMs: The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple

Ajay Jaiswal, Zhe Gan, Xianzhi Du +3

Despite their remarkable achievements, modern Large Language Models (LLMs) face exorbitant computational and memory footprints. Recently, several works have shown significant succe…