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most citedUnveiling Encoder-Free Vision-Language Models

3 citations · 4 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cs.CV2026

Game2Real-Bench: Do Toy Games Reveal and Transfer to Real-World Visual Reasoning?

Qingan Liu, Juntong Feng, Yue Zhu +6

Visual reasoning is an important capability for vision-language models (VLMs) to understand visual evidence, spatial structure, constraints, and state changes. Existing evaluations…

cs.CV2026

ERA: Entropy-Guided Visual Token Pruning with Rectified Attention for Efficient MLLMs

Yuhao Wang, Mu Qiao, Haiwen Diao +5

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) incur prohibitive inference costs due to long visual token sequences. Training-free visual token reduction provides an efficient solution.…

cs.CV2026

From Pixels to Words -- Towards Native One-Vision Models at Scale

Haiwen Diao, Jiahao Wang, Penghao Wu +18

Current vision-language models (VLMs) typically stitch together separate image encoders and language decoders via multi-stage alignment, a modular framework that inevitably fragmen…

cs.CV2026

VISTA-Bench: Do Vision-Language Models Really Understand Visualized Text as Well as Pure Text?

Qing'an Liu, Juntong Feng, Yuhao Wang +6

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have achieved impressive performance in cross-modal understanding across textual and visual inputs, yet existing benchmarks predominantly focus on pur…

cs.CV2025

End-to-End Vision Tokenizer Tuning

Wenxuan Wang, Fan Zhang, Yufeng Cui +5

Existing vision tokenization isolates the optimization of vision tokenizers from downstream training, implicitly assuming the visual tokens can generalize well across various tasks…

cs.CV2025

KARST: Multi-Kernel Kronecker Adaptation with Re-Scaling Transmission for Visual Classification

Yue Zhu, Haiwen Diao, Shang Gao +2

Fine-tuning pre-trained vision models for specific tasks is a common practice in computer vision. However, this process becomes more expensive as models grow larger. Recently, para…

cs.CV2025

EVEv2: Improved Baselines for Encoder-Free Vision-Language Models

Haiwen Diao, Xiaotong Li, Yufeng Cui +6

Existing encoder-free vision-language models (VLMs) are rapidly narrowing the performance gap with their encoder-based counterparts, highlighting the promising potential for unifie…

cs.CV2024

Autoregressive Video Generation without Vector Quantization

Haoge Deng, Ting Pan, Haiwen Diao +6

This paper presents a novel approach that enables autoregressive video generation with high efficiency. We propose to reformulate the video generation problem as a non-quantized au…

cs.CV2024

GSSF: Generalized Structural Sparse Function for Deep Cross-modal Metric Learning

Haiwen Diao, Ying Zhang, Shang Gao +3

Cross-modal metric learning is a prominent research topic that bridges the semantic heterogeneity between vision and language. Existing methods frequently utilize simple cosine or…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

SHERL: Synthesizing High Accuracy and Efficient Memory for Resource-Limited Transfer Learning

Haiwen Diao, Bo Wan, Xu Jia +4

Parameter-efficient transfer learning (PETL) has emerged as a flourishing research field for adapting large pre-trained models to downstream tasks, greatly reducing trainable param…

cs.CV2024★ 3 cited

Unveiling Encoder-Free Vision-Language Models

Haiwen Diao, Yufeng Cui, Xiaotong Li +3

Existing vision-language models (VLMs) mostly rely on vision encoders to extract visual features followed by large language models (LLMs) for visual-language tasks. However, the vi…