9 papers
Future Optical Flow Prediction Improves Robot Control & Video Generation
Kanchana Ranasinghe, Honglu Zhou, Yu Fang +7
Future motion representations, such as optical flow, offer immense value for control and generative tasks. However, forecasting generalizable spatially dense motion representations…
Robotic VLA Benefits from Joint Learning with Motion Image Diffusion
Yu Fang, Kanchana Ranasinghe, Le Xue +10
Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved remarkable progress in robotic manipulation by mapping multimodal observations and instructions directly to actions. However, they…
SMILE: A Composite Lexical-Semantic Metric for Question-Answering Evaluation
Shrikant Kendre, Austin Xu, Honglu Zhou +3
Traditional evaluation metrics for textual and visual question answering, like ROUGE, METEOR, and Exact Match (EM), focus heavily on n-gram based lexical similarity, often missing…
BLIP3o-NEXT: Next Frontier of Native Image Generation
Jiuhai Chen, Le Xue, Zhiyang Xu +12
We present BLIP3o-NEXT, a fully open-source foundation model in the BLIP3 series that advances the next frontier of native image generation. BLIP3o-NEXT unifies text-to-image gener…
Strefer: Empowering Video LLMs with Space-Time Referring and Reasoning via Synthetic Instruction Data
Honglu Zhou, Xiangyu Peng, Shrikant Kendre +4
Next-generation AI companions must go beyond general video understanding to resolve spatial and temporal references in dynamic, real-world environments. Existing Video Large Langua…
Contra4: Evaluating Contrastive Cross-Modal Reasoning in Audio, Video, Image, and 3D
Artemis Panagopoulou, Le Xue, Honglu Zhou +6
Real-world decision-making often begins with identifying which modality contains the most relevant information for a given query. While recent multimodal models have made impressiv…