4 papers
Spatial Reasoning is Not a Free Lunch: A Controlled Study on LLaVA
Nahid Alam, Leema Krishna Murali, Siddhant Bharadwaj +7
Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly, yet they still struggle with basic spatial reasoning. Despite strong performance on general benchmarks, modern VLMs remain brit…
The Spatial Blindspot of Vision-Language Models
Nahid Alam, Leema Krishna Murali, Siddhant Bharadwaj +7
Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly, but their ability to capture spatial relationships remains a blindspot. Current VLMs are typically built with contrastive langu…
Behind Maya: Building a Multilingual Vision Language Model
Nahid Alam, Karthik Reddy Kanjula, Surya Guthikonda +16
In recent times, we have seen a rapid development of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs). They have shown impressive results on academic benchmarks, primarily in widely spoken lang…
Maya: An Instruction Finetuned Multilingual Multimodal Model
Nahid Alam, Karthik Reddy Kanjula, Surya Guthikonda +16
The rapid development of large Vision-Language Models (VLMs) has led to impressive results on academic benchmarks, primarily in widely spoken languages. However, significant gaps r…