3 papers
cs.CV2026
Seeing Through Words: Controlling Visual Retrieval Quality with Language Models
Jianglin Lu, Simon Jenni, Kushal Kafle +3
Text-to-image retrieval is a fundamental task in vision-language learning, yet in real-world scenarios it is often challenged by short and underspecified user queries. Such queries…
cs.CV2025
More Than the Final Answer: Improving Visual Extraction and Logical Consistency in Vision-Language Models
Hoang Anh Just, Yifei Fan, Handong Zhao +6
Reinforcement learning from verifiable rewards (RLVR) has recently been extended from text-only LLMs to vision-language models (VLMs) to elicit long-chain multimodal reasoning. How…
cs.CV2025
The Photographer Eye: Teaching Multimodal Large Language Models to Understand Image Aesthetics like Photographers
Daiqing Qi, Handong Zhao, Jing Shi +5
While editing directly from life, photographers have found it too difficult to see simultaneously both the blue and the sky. Photographer and curator, Szarkowski insightfully revea…