4 papers
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…
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…
KITAB-Bench: A Comprehensive Multi-Domain Benchmark for Arabic OCR and Document Understanding
Ahmed Heakl, Abdullah Sohail, Mukul Ranjan +7
With the growing adoption of Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) in document processing, robust text recognition has become increasingly critical for knowledge extraction. While O…
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…