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most citedHiVG: Hierarchical Multimodal Fine-grained Modulation for Visual Grounding

28 citations · 50 across the 21 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cs.CV2026

A Visual Dependence-Aware Framework for Multimodal Unsupervised Continual Post-Training

Kaichen Li, Zhilin Zhu, Jianhao Huang +7

In this paper, we explore a novel task of Multimodal Unsupervised Continual Post-Training (MU-CPT), enabling deployed MLLMs to continually evolve from streaming unlabeled data. Exi…

cs.LG2026

UniFed-VLM: Federated Instruction Tuning for Vision-Language Models with Multiple Heterogeneity

Pengyu Wang, Baochen Xiong, Xiaoshan Yang +4

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have demonstrated strong performance in multimodal understanding and generation. However, fine-tuning of VLMs typically relies on centralized data, wh…

cs.CL2026

Decoupled Vision-Language System for Multimodal Understanding and Generation

Yifan Xu, Baochen Xiong, Xiaoshan Yang +3

We introduce a new architecture design for multimodal large language models (MLLMs), Libra, capable of both multimodal understanding and generation. Libra architecture contains one…

cs.CV2026

VTM-Nav: Harnessing Cross-Episode Experience for Object-Goal Navigation with Hierarchical Visual-Topological Memory

Xiaoran Xu, Yupeng Wu, Tianyu Xue +4

Training-free ObjectNav agents increasingly use vision-language models (VLMs), yet typically discard acquired scene knowledge after each request. We study cross-episode ObjectNav,…

cs.CV2026

DOME: Learning Transferable Domain Variables from Sparse Supervision for Test-Time Adaptation

Xiaoran Xu, Yifan Xu, Yupeng Wu +2

Test-time adaptation (TTA) aims to align a model to shifting test domains using only unlabeled streaming data. Most existing methods implicitly infer a single global domain distrib…

cs.DC2026

Boosting Multimodal Federated Learning via Chained Modality Optimization

Zixin Zhang, Fan Qi, Shuai Li +2

Multimodal Federated Learning (MMFL) enables privacy-preserving collaborative learning across decentralized clients with heterogeneous data and modality availability. However, most…

cs.CV2026

General Covariant Action Modeling: Constructing Generalized Manifolds via Spatio-Temporal Decoupling

Huaihai Lyu, Chaofan Chen, Mingyu Cao +2

Achieving robust generalization from limited data is a central challenge in embodied intelligence. Prevailing methods fail by regressing absolute coordinates, which violates the pr…

cs.AI2026

Replacing Parameters with Preferences: Federated Alignment of Heterogeneous Vision-Language Models

Shule Lu, Yujing Wang, Hainan Zhang +5

Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have broad potential in privacy-sensitive domains such as healthcare and finance, yet strict data-sharing constraints render centralized training infe…

cs.CV2026

PivotMerge: Bridging Heterogeneous Multimodal Pre-training via Post-Alignment Model Merging

Zibo Shao, Baochen Xiong, Xiaoshan Yang +4

Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) rely on multimodal pre-training over diverse data sources, where different datasets often induce complementary cross-modal alignment capabi…

cs.LG2026

A Step Toward Federated Pretraining of Multimodal Large Language Models

Baochen Xiong, Yifan Xu, Xiaoshan Yang +3

The rapid evolution of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) is bottlenecked by the saturation of high-quality public data, while vast amounts of diverse multimodal data remain…

cs.AI2026

Replacing Parameters with Preferences: Federated Alignment of Heterogeneous Vision-Language Models

Shule Lu, Yujing Wang, Hainan Zhang +5

VLMs have broad potential in privacy-sensitive domains such as healthcare and finance, yet strict data-sharing constraints render centralized training infeasible. FL mitigates this…

cs.CV2026

Towards Domain-Generalized Open-Vocabulary Object Detection: A Progressive Domain-invariant Cross-modal Alignment Method

Xiaoran Xu, Xiaoshan Yang, Jiangang Yang +3

Open-Vocabulary Object Detection (OVOD) has achieved remarkable success in generalizing to novel categories. However, this success often rests on the implicit assumption of domain…

cs.CV2025

Modality-Collaborative Low-Rank Decomposers for Few-Shot Video Domain Adaptation

Yuyang Wanyan, Xiaoshan Yang, Weiming Dong +1

In this paper, we study the challenging task of Few-Shot Video Domain Adaptation (FSVDA). The multimodal nature of videos introduces unique challenges, necessitating the simultaneo…

cs.LG2025

Harmony: A Unified Framework for Modality Incremental Learning

Yaguang Song, Xiaoshan Yang, Dongmei Jiang +2

Incremental learning aims to enable models to continuously acquire knowledge from evolving data streams while preserving previously learned capabilities. While current research pre…

cs.LG2025

Pilot: Building the Federated Multimodal Instruction Tuning Framework

Baochen Xiong, Xiaoshan Yang, Yaguang Song +2

In this paper, we explore a novel federated multimodal instruction tuning task(FedMIT), which is significant for collaboratively fine-tuning MLLMs on different types of multimodal…

cs.CV2024

Do We Need to Design Specific Diffusion Models for Different Tasks? Try ONE-PIC

Ming Tao, Bing-Kun Bao, Yaowei Wang +1

Large pretrained diffusion models have demonstrated impressive generation capabilities and have been adapted to various downstream tasks. However, unlike Large Language Models (LLM…

cs.CV2024★ 18 cited

Toward Visual Grounding: A Survey

Linhui Xiao, Xiaoshan Yang, Xiangyuan Lan +2

Visual Grounding, also known as Referring Expression Comprehension and Phrase Grounding, aims to ground the specific region(s) within the image(s) based on the given expression tex…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

OneRef: Unified One-tower Expression Grounding and Segmentation with Mask Referring Modeling

Linhui Xiao, Xiaoshan Yang, Fang Peng +2

Constrained by the separate encoding of vision and language, existing grounding and referring segmentation works heavily rely on bulky Transformer-based fusion en-/decoders and a v…

cs.CV2024★ 2 cited

A Comprehensive Review of Few-shot Action Recognition

Yuyang Wanyan, Xiaoshan Yang, Weiming Dong +1

Few-shot action recognition aims to address the high cost and impracticality of manually labeling complex and variable video data in action recognition. It requires accurately clas…

cs.CV2024

Libra: Building Decoupled Vision System on Large Language Models

Yifan Xu, Xiaoshan Yang, Yaguang Song +1

In this work, we introduce Libra, a prototype model with a decoupled vision system on a large language model (LLM). The decoupled vision system decouples inner-modal modeling and c…

cs.CV2024★ 28 cited

HiVG: Hierarchical Multimodal Fine-grained Modulation for Visual Grounding

Linhui Xiao, Xiaoshan Yang, Fang Peng +2

Visual grounding, which aims to ground a visual region via natural language, is a task that heavily relies on cross-modal alignment. Existing works utilized uni-modal pre-trained m…