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most citedFrozen Transformers in Language Models Are Effective Visual Encoder Layers

11 citations · 12 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

cs.RO2026

FLORA: An Open Model Suite for Scaling Robotics Data Engines

Sicong Leng, Yunze Man, Zhiqi Li +14

The life-cycle of robotics foundation models crucially depends on data labels. Outcome reward labels are needed for monitoring real-world deployments. Process reward labels are nee…

cs.RO2026

Vesta: A Generalist Embodied Reasoning Model

Johan Bjorck, Zhiqi Li, Yunze Man +29

Robots operating in open-world environments must seamlessly integrate localization, spatial reasoning, navigation, and long-horizon planning. While specialist models excel at indiv…

cs.CV2026

LocateAnything: Fast and High-Quality Vision-Language Grounding with Parallel Box Decoding

Shihao Wang, Shilong Liu, Yuanguo Kuang +10

Vision-language models (VLMs) commonly formulate visual grounding and detection as a coordinate-token generation problem, serializing each 2D box into multiple 1D tokens that are l…

cs.CV2026

Fast-ThinkAct: Efficient Vision-Language-Action Reasoning via Verbalizable Latent Planning

Chi-Pin Huang, Yunze Man, Zhiding Yu +4

Vision-Language-Action (VLA) tasks require reasoning over complex visual scenes and executing adaptive actions in dynamic environments. While recent studies on reasoning VLAs show…

cs.RO2026

Capturing Visual Environment Structure Correlates with Control Performance

Jiahua Dong, Yunze Man, Pavel Tokmakov +1

The choice of visual representation is key to scaling generalist robot policies. However, direct evaluation via policy rollouts is expensive, even in simulation. Existing proxy met…

cs.CV2025

PPTArena: A Benchmark for PowerPoint Editing

Michael Ofengenden, Yunze Man, Ziqi Pang +2

We introduce PPTArena, a benchmark for PowerPoint editing that evaluates how agents modify real slides from natural-language instructions. Unlike benchmarks that rely on image-PDF…

cs.CV2025

LocateAnything3D: Vision-Language 3D Detection with Chain-of-Sight

Yunze Man, Shihao Wang, Guowen Zhang +7

To act in the world, a model must name what it sees and know where it is in 3D. Today's vision-language models (VLMs) excel at open-ended 2D description and grounding, yet multi-ob…

cs.DC2025

OSGym: Scalable OS Infra for Computer Use Agents

Zengyi Qin, Jinyuan Chen, Yunze Man +25

Training computer use agents requires full-featured OS sandboxes with GUI environments, which consume substantial hardware resources as the number of sandboxes scales. Stochastic e…

cs.CV2025

Argus: Vision-Centric Reasoning with Grounded Chain-of-Thought

Yunze Man, De-An Huang, Guilin Liu +6

Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in vision-language tasks, yet they often struggle with vision-centric scenario…

cs.CV2025

AgMMU: A Comprehensive Agricultural Multimodal Understanding Benchmark

Aruna Gauba, Irene Pi, Yunze Man +3

We present AgMMU, a challenging real-world benchmark for evaluating and advancing vision-language models (VLMs) in the knowledge-intensive domain of agriculture. Unlike prior datas…

cs.CV2024

PaintScene4D: Consistent 4D Scene Generation from Text Prompts

Vinayak Gupta, Yunze Man, Yu-Xiong Wang

Recent advances in diffusion models have revolutionized 2D and 3D content creation, yet generating photorealistic dynamic 4D scenes remains a significant challenge. Existing dynami…

cs.CV2024★ 1 cited

RandAR: Decoder-only Autoregressive Visual Generation in Random Orders

Ziqi Pang, Tianyuan Zhang, Fujun Luan +5

We introduce RandAR, a decoder-only visual autoregressive (AR) model capable of generating images in arbitrary token orders. Unlike previous decoder-only AR models that rely on a p…

cs.CV2024

SceneCraft: Layout-Guided 3D Scene Generation

Xiuyu Yang, Yunze Man, Jun-Kun Chen +1

The creation of complex 3D scenes tailored to user specifications has been a tedious and challenging task with traditional 3D modeling tools. Although some pioneering methods have…

cs.CV2024

Lexicon3D: Probing Visual Foundation Models for Complex 3D Scene Understanding

Yunze Man, Shuhong Zheng, Zhipeng Bao +3

Complex 3D scene understanding has gained increasing attention, with scene encoding strategies playing a crucial role in this success. However, the optimal scene encoding strategie…

cs.CV2024

Floating No More: Object-Ground Reconstruction from a Single Image

Yunze Man, Yichen Sheng, Jianming Zhang +2

Recent advancements in 3D object reconstruction from single images have primarily focused on improving the accuracy of object shapes. Yet, these techniques often fail to accurately…

cs.CV2024

Situational Awareness Matters in 3D Vision Language Reasoning

Yunze Man, Liang-Yan Gui, Yu-Xiong Wang

Being able to carry out complicated vision language reasoning tasks in 3D space represents a significant milestone in developing household robots and human-centered embodied AI. In…

cs.CV2023★ 11 cited

Frozen Transformers in Language Models Are Effective Visual Encoder Layers

Ziqi Pang, Ziyang Xie, Yunze Man +1

This paper reveals that large language models (LLMs), despite being trained solely on textual data, are surprisingly strong encoders for purely visual tasks in the absence of langu…

cs.CV2023

DualCross: Cross-Modality Cross-Domain Adaptation for Monocular BEV Perception

Yunze Man, Liang-Yan Gui, Yu-Xiong Wang

Closing the domain gap between training and deployment and incorporating multiple sensor modalities are two challenging yet critical topics for self-driving. Existing work only foc…