14 papers
VEFX-Bench: A Holistic Benchmark for Generic Video Editing and Visual Effects
Xiangbo Gao, Sicong Jiang, Bangya Liu +12
As AI-assisted video creation becomes increasingly practical, instruction-guided video editing has become essential for refining generated or captured footage to meet professional…
Background Fades, Foreground Leads: Curriculum-Guided Background Pruning for Efficient Foreground-Centric Collaborative Perception
Yuheng Wu, Xiangbo Gao, Quang Tau +2
Collaborative perception enhances the reliability and spatial coverage of autonomous vehicles by sharing complementary information across vehicles, offering a promising solution to…
Modular Safety Guardrails Are Necessary for Foundation-Model-Enabled Robots in the Real World
Joonkyung Kim, Wenxi Chen, Davood Soleymanzadeh +9
The integration of foundation models (FMs) into robotics has accelerated real-world deployment, while introducing new safety challenges arising from open-ended semantic reasoning a…
DisCO: Reinforcing Large Reasoning Models with Discriminative Constrained Optimization
Gang Li, Ming Lin, Tomer Galanti +2
The recent success and openness of DeepSeek-R1 have brought widespread attention to Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO) as a reinforcement learning method for large reasoning…
VISTAv2: World Imagination for Indoor Vision-and-Language Navigation
Yanjia Huang, Xianshun Jiang, Xiangbo Gao +2
Vision-and-Language Navigation (VLN) requires agents to follow language instructions while acting in continuous real-world spaces. Prior image imagination based VLN work shows bene…
CyPortQA: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Cyclone Preparedness in Port Operation
Chenchen Kuai, Chenhao Wu, Yang Zhou +5
As tropical cyclones intensify and track forecasts become increasingly uncertain, U.S. ports face heightened supply-chain risk under extreme weather conditions. Port operators need…