12 papers
How Good are Foundation Models in Longitudinal MRI Disease Progression Reasoning?
Wafa Al Ghallabi, Ritesh Thawkar, Sara Ghaboura +6
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) interpretation is fundamental to clinical decision-making, requiring radiologists to integrate multi-view anatomical planes across sequential timep…
Perception Before Supervision: Self-Contained Visual Distillation from Counterfactual Blind Spots
Shravan Venkatraman, Omkar Thawakar, Ritesh Thawkar +2
Self-improvement for multimodal large language models (MLLMs) is typically driven by reward-based methods that provide only coarse scalar feedback. Distillation offers a richer alt…
Ask, Solve, Generate: Self-Evolving Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation via Self-Consistency Rewards
Ritesh Thawkar, Shravan Venkatraman, Omkar Thawakar +5
Most unified large multimodal models (LMMs) that support both visual understanding and image generation still rely on curated post-training supervision, such as human annotations,…
Paying More Attention to Visual Tokens in Self-Evolving Large Multimodal Models
Shravan Venkatraman, Ritesh Thawkar, Omkar Thawakar +4
Recently, self-evolving large multimodal models (LMMs) have received attention for improving visual reasoning in a purely unsupervised setting. However, multi-role self-play and se…
Mobile-O: Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation on Mobile Device
Abdelrahman Shaker, Ahmed Heakl, Jaseel Muhammad +8
Unified multimodal models can both understand and generate visual content within a single architecture. Existing models, however, remain data-hungry and too heavy for deployment on…
EvoLMM: Self-Evolving Large Multimodal Models with Continuous Rewards
Omkar Thawakar, Shravan Venkatraman, Ritesh Thawkar +5
Recent advances in large multimodal models (LMMs) have enabled impressive reasoning and perception abilities, yet most existing training pipelines still depend on human-curated dat…
How Good are Foundation Models in Step-by-Step Embodied Reasoning?
Dinura Dissanayake, Ahmed Heakl, Omkar Thawakar +9
Embodied agents operating in the physical world must make decisions that are not only effective but also safe, spatially coherent, and grounded in context. While recent advances in…
Beyond Simple Edits: Composed Video Retrieval with Dense Modifications
Omkar Thawakar, Dmitry Demidov, Ritesh Thawkar +4
Composed video retrieval is a challenging task that strives to retrieve a target video based on a query video and a textual description detailing specific modifications. Standard r…
Fann or Flop: A Multigenre, Multiera Benchmark for Arabic Poetry Understanding in LLMs
Wafa Alghallabi, Ritesh Thawkar, Sara Ghaboura +5
Arabic poetry is one of the richest and most culturally rooted forms of expression in the Arabic language, known for its layered meanings, stylistic diversity, and deep historical…
DriveLMM-o1: A Step-by-Step Reasoning Dataset and Large Multimodal Model for Driving Scenario Understanding
Ayesha Ishaq, Jean Lahoud, Ketan More +10
While large multimodal models (LMMs) have demonstrated strong performance across various Visual Question Answering (VQA) tasks, certain challenges require complex multi-step reason…
Time Travel: A Comprehensive Benchmark to Evaluate LMMs on Historical and Cultural Artifacts
Sara Ghaboura, Ketan More, Ritesh Thawkar +6
Understanding historical and cultural artifacts demands human expertise and advanced computational techniques, yet the process remains complex and time-intensive. While large multi…
LlamaV-o1: Rethinking Step-by-step Visual Reasoning in LLMs
Omkar Thawakar, Dinura Dissanayake, Ketan More +12
Reasoning is a fundamental capability for solving complex multi-step problems, particularly in visual contexts where sequential step-wise understanding is essential. Existing appro…