3 papers
cs.CV2026
Beyond Language Modeling: An Exploration of Multimodal Pretraining
Shengbang Tong, David Fan, John Nguyen +18
The visual world offers a critical axis for advancing foundation models beyond language. Despite growing interest in this direction, the design space for native multimodal models r…
cs.CV2025
VUGEN: Visual Understanding priors for GENeration
Xiangyi Chen, Théophane Vallaeys, Maha Elbayad +2
Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have enabled unified understanding across text and images, yet equipping these models with robust image generation capabilities rem…
cs.LG2025
Qinco2: Vector Compression and Search with Improved Implicit Neural Codebooks
Théophane Vallaeys, Matthew Muckley, Jakob Verbeek +1
Vector quantization is a fundamental technique for compression and large-scale nearest neighbor search. For high-accuracy operating points, multi-codebook quantization associates d…