4 papers
VTC-Bench: Evaluating Agentic Multimodal Models via Compositional Visual Tool Chaining
Xuanyu Zhu, Yuhao Dong, Rundong Wang +9
Recent advancements extend Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) beyond standard visual question answering to utilizing external tools for advanced visual tasks. Despite this pr…
Fanar 2.0: Arabic Generative AI Stack
FANAR TEAM, Ummar Abbas, Mohammad Shahmeer Ahmad +34
We present Fanar 2.0, the second generation of Qatar's Arabic-centric Generative AI platform. Sovereignty is a first-class design principle: every component, from data pipelines to…
MMSpec: Benchmarking Speculative Decoding for Vision-Language Models
Hui Shen, Xin Wang, Ping Zhang +11
Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong performance on multimodal tasks but suffer from high inference latency due to large model sizes and long multimodal contexts. Speculati…
Scaling Image Tokenizers with Grouped Spherical Quantization
Jiangtao Wang, Zhen Qin, Yifan Zhang +4
Vision tokenizers have gained a lot of attraction due to their scalability and compactness; previous works depend on old-school GAN-based hyperparameters, biased comparisons, and a…