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most citedInvestigating the Catastrophic Forgetting in Multimodal Large Language Models

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cs.CV2026

Personal AI Agent for Camera Roll VQA

Thao Nguyen, Krishna Kumar Singh, Donghyun Kim +2

We study the personal camera roll visual question answering setting. In this setting, a conversational AI assistant can access a user's personal camera roll and retrieve relevant p…

cs.CV2026

MAOAM: Unified Object and Material Selection with Vision-Language Models

Jaden Park, Valentin Deschaintre, Jason Kuen +5

Selection is a core operation in interactive image editing. To be practical, a user should be able to specify and disambiguate the desired selection region through either text or c…

cs.CV2026

MuRF: Unlocking the Multi-Scale Potential of Vision Foundation Models

Bocheng Zou, Mu Cai, Mark Stanley +2

Vision Foundation Models (VFMs) have become the cornerstone of modern computer vision, offering robust representations across a wide array of tasks. While recent advances allow the…

cs.LG2025

Contamination Detection for VLMs using Multi-Modal Semantic Perturbation

Jaden Park, Mu Cai, Feng Yao +3

Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved state-of-the-art performance on numerous benchmark tasks. However, the use of internet-scale, often proprietary, pret…

cs.CV2025

Decomposing Complex Visual Comprehension into Atomic Visual Skills for Vision Language Models

Hyunsik Chae, Seungwoo Yoon, Jaden Park +5

Recent Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated impressive multimodal comprehension and reasoning capabilities, yet they often struggle with trivially simple visual tasks. I…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

TemporalBench: Benchmarking Fine-grained Temporal Understanding for Multimodal Video Models

Mu Cai, Reuben Tan, Jianrui Zhang +12

Understanding fine-grained temporal dynamics is crucial for multimodal video comprehension and generation. Due to the lack of fine-grained temporal annotations, existing video benc…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

Vinoground: Scrutinizing LMMs over Dense Temporal Reasoning with Short Videos

Jianrui Zhang, Mu Cai, Yong Jae Lee

There has been growing sentiment recently that modern large multimodal models (LMMs) have addressed most of the key challenges related to short video comprehension. As a result, bo…

cs.CV2024

Cross-Modal Self-Supervised Learning with Effective Contrastive Units for LiDAR Point Clouds

Mu Cai, Chenxu Luo, Yong Jae Lee +1

3D perception in LiDAR point clouds is crucial for a self-driving vehicle to properly act in 3D environment. However, manually labeling point clouds is hard and costly. There has b…

cs.CV2024

VGBench: Evaluating Large Language Models on Vector Graphics Understanding and Generation

Bocheng Zou, Mu Cai, Jianrui Zhang +1

In the realm of vision models, the primary mode of representation is using pixels to rasterize the visual world. Yet this is not always the best or unique way to represent visual c…

cs.AI2024

CHARTOM: A Visual Theory-of-Mind Benchmark for LLMs on Misleading Charts

Shubham Bharti, Shiyun Cheng, Jihyun Rho +5

We introduce CHARTOM, a visual theory-of-mind benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models' capability to understand and reason about misleading data visualizati…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

LLaRA: Supercharging Robot Learning Data for Vision-Language Policy

Xiang Li, Cristina Mata, Jongwoo Park +8

Vision Language Models (VLMs) have recently been leveraged to generate robotic actions, forming Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models. However, directly adapting a pretrained VLM for…

cs.CV2024

Matryoshka Multimodal Models

Mu Cai, Jianwei Yang, Jianfeng Gao +1

Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) such as LLaVA have shown strong performance in visual-linguistic reasoning. These models first embed images into a fixed large number of visual token…

cs.CV2024

CounterCurate: Enhancing Physical and Semantic Visio-Linguistic Compositional Reasoning via Counterfactual Examples

Jianrui Zhang, Mu Cai, Tengyang Xie +1

We propose CounterCurate, a framework to comprehensively improve the visio-linguistic compositional reasoning capability for both contrastive and generative multimodal models. In p…

cs.CV2023

Interfacing Foundation Models' Embeddings

Xueyan Zou, Linjie Li, Jianfeng Wang +10

Foundation models possess strong capabilities in reasoning and memorizing across modalities. To further unleash the power of foundation models, we present FIND, a generalized inter…

cs.CV2023

ViP-LLaVA: Making Large Multimodal Models Understand Arbitrary Visual Prompts

Mu Cai, Haotian Liu, Dennis Park +4

While existing large vision-language multimodal models focus on whole image understanding, there is a prominent gap in achieving region-specific comprehension. Current approaches t…

cs.CV2023★ 2 cited

A Sentence Speaks a Thousand Images: Domain Generalization through Distilling CLIP with Language Guidance

Zeyi Huang, Andy Zhou, Zijian Lin +3

Domain generalization studies the problem of training a model with samples from several domains (or distributions) and then testing the model with samples from a new, unseen domain…

cs.CL2023★ 16 cited

Investigating the Catastrophic Forgetting in Multimodal Large Language Models

Yuexiang Zhai, Shengbang Tong, Xiao Li +4

Following the success of GPT4, there has been a surge in interest in multimodal large language model (MLLM) research. This line of research focuses on developing general-purpose LL…

cs.CV2023

Leveraging Large Language Models for Scalable Vector Graphics-Driven Image Understanding

Mu Cai, Zeyi Huang, Yuheng Li +3

Large language models (LLMs) have made significant advancements in natural language understanding. However, through that enormous semantic representation that the LLM has learnt, i…