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5 papers

cs.CV2026

What Generation Knows: Unlocking Fine-Grained Understanding in Unified Multimodal Models

Tengju Ru, Weitong Lian, Zecong Tang +6

Fine-grained visual understanding requires distinguishing subtle differences in local attributes and spatial relations, yet remains challenging for existing vision-language models.…

econ.TH2026

Revealing Structured Heterogeneity

Christopher Turansick

In this paper, we study models of restricted heterogeneity. While the random utility model allows for arbitrary heterogeneity among rational types, we consider the case when an ana…

cs.AI2026

IMUG-Bench: Benchmarking Unified Multimodal Models on Interleaved Understanding and Generation

Lingyi Meng, Zecong Tang, Haoran Li +12

In recent years, unified multimodal models (UMMs) have emerged to support both understanding and generation within a single framework. Mastering dynamic, multi-turn interleaved ima…

cs.AI2026

Drive-KD: Multi-Teacher Distillation for VLMs in Autonomous Driving

Weitong Lian, Zecong Tang, Haoran Li +12

Autonomous driving is an important and safety-critical task, and recent advances in LLMs/VLMs have opened new possibilities for reasoning and planning in this domain. However, larg…

cs.AI2026

Drive-P2D: A Progressive Perception-to-Decision Benchmark for VLMs in Autonomous Driving

Zecong Tang, Zixu Wang, Yifei Wang +10

Autonomous driving requires reliable perception and safe decision-making in complex scenarios. Recent vision-language models (VLMs) demonstrate reasoning and generalization abiliti…