8 papers
When Does Visual Generation Help Visual Understanding in Unified Multimodal Models?
Yubo Zhu, Zhehan Kan, Jingyi Yang +6
Unified multimodal models (UMMs) can perform both understanding and generation, raising a central question: can visual generation improve understanding? Existing evaluations provid…
MoZoo:Unleashing Video Diffusion power in animal fur and muscle simulation
Dongxia Liu, Jie Ma, Xiaochen Yang +7
The creation of cinematic-quality animal effects necessitates the precise modeling of muscle and fur dynamics, a process that remains both labor-intensive and computationally expen…
ActFER: Agentic Facial Expression Recognition via Active Tool-Augmented Visual Reasoning
Shifeng Liu, Zhengye Zhang, Sirui Zhao +7
Recent advances in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have created new opportunities for facial expression recognition (FER), moving it beyond pure label prediction toward re…
Youtu-VL: Unleashing Visual Potential via Unified Vision-Language Supervision
Zhixiang Wei, Yi Li, Zhehan Kan +38
Despite the significant advancements represented by Vision-Language Models (VLMs), current architectures often exhibit limitations in retaining fine-grained visual information, lea…
TACO: Think-Answer Consistency for Optimized Long-Chain Reasoning and Efficient Data Learning via Reinforcement Learning in LVLMs
Zhehan Kan, Yanlin Liu, Kun Yin +8
DeepSeek R1 has significantly advanced complex reasoning for large language models (LLMs). While recent methods have attempted to replicate R1's reasoning capabilities in multimoda…
Self-Correcting Decoding with Generative Feedback for Mitigating Hallucinations in Large Vision-Language Models
Ce Zhang, Zifu Wan, Zhehan Kan +7
While recent Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs) have shown remarkable performance in multi-modal tasks, they are prone to generating hallucinatory text responses that do not alig…