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most citedGranite Vision: a lightweight, open-source multimodal model for enterprise Intelligence

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cs.AI2026

Balanced Thinking: Improving Chain of Thought Training in Vision Language Models

Shaked Perek, Ben Wiesel, Avihu Dekel +2

Multimodal reasoning in vision-language models (VLMs) typically relies on a two-stage process: supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and reinforcement learning (RL). In standard SFT, all to…

cs.CV2026

Look Where It Matters: High-Resolution Crops Retrieval for Efficient VLMs

Nimrod Shabtay, Moshe Kimhi, Artem Spector +5

Vision-language models (VLMs) typically process images at a native high-resolution, forcing a trade-off between accuracy and computational efficiency: high-resolution inputs captur…

cs.CL2025

Advancing Speech Understanding in Speech-Aware Language Models with GRPO

Avishai Elmakies, Hagai Aronowitz, Nimrod Shabtay +3

In this paper, we introduce a Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO)-based method for training Speech-Aware Large Language Models (SALLMs) on open-format speech understanding ta…

eess.AS2025

Spoken question answering for visual queries

Nimrod Shabtay, Zvi Kons, Avihu Dekel +3

Question answering (QA) systems are designed to answer natural language questions. Visual QA (VQA) and Spoken QA (SQA) systems extend the textual QA system to accept visual and spo…

cs.CV20251 cited

Granite Vision: a lightweight, open-source multimodal model for enterprise Intelligence

Granite Vision Team, Leonid Karlinsky, Assaf Arbelle +60

We introduce Granite Vision, a lightweight large language model with vision capabilities, specifically designed to excel in enterprise use cases, particularly in visual document un…

cs.CV2024

Teaching VLMs to Localize Specific Objects from In-context Examples

Sivan Doveh, Nimrod Shabtay, Wei Lin +9

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have shown remarkable capabilities across diverse visual tasks, including image recognition, video understanding, and Visual Question Answering (VQA)…