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Explorative Modeling: Unlocking a Third Pretraining Axis and End-to-End Generation
Alexi Gladstone, Heng Ji, Yilun Du
The paper proposes Explorative Modeling, a new training paradigm that selects the best among multiple candidate generations to improve generative models, adding a third pretraining…
Generalizable VLA Finetuning via Representation Anchoring and Language-Action Alignment
Dwip Dalal, Shivansh Patel, Chahit Jain +7
The paper introduces Anchor-Align, a method that adds representation anchoring and language-action alignment to behavior‑cloning finetuning of vision‑language models for robot mani…
Securing Multimodal AI through Internal Information Decomposition
Jehyeok Yeon, Hyeonjeong Ha, Qiusi Zhan +1
Multimodal large language models introduce attack surfaces absent in unimodal systems: adversaries can distribute malicious intent across modalities to evade unimodal safeguards. T…
Constructive Distortion: Improving MLLMs with Attention-Guided Image Warping
Dwip Dalal, Gautam Vashishtha, Utkarsh Mishra +6
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often miss small details and spatial relations in cluttered scenes, leading to errors in fine-grained perceptual grounding. We introduce At…
Must Read: A Comprehensive Survey of Computational Persuasion
Nimet Beyza Bozdag, Shuhaib Mehri, Xiaocheng Yang +7
Persuasion is a fundamental aspect of communication, influencing decision-making across diverse contexts, from everyday conversations to high-stakes scenarios such as politics, mar…
BEAT: Visual Backdoor Attacks on VLM-based Embodied Agents via Contrastive Trigger Learning
Qiusi Zhan, Hyeonjeong Ha, Rui Yang +7
Recent advances in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have propelled embodied agents by enabling direct perception, reasoning, and planning task-oriented actions from visual inputs. How…