6 papers
: Decoding Discontinuous Cross-Modal Dynamics for Efficient Multimodal LLMs
Yingqi Fan, Anhao Zhao, Jinlan Fu +5
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have achieved strong performance across vision-language tasks, but suffer from significant computational overhead due to the quadratic grow…
Multimodal Language Models See Better When They Look Shallower
Haoran Chen, Junyan Lin, Xinghao Chen +6
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) typically extract visual features from the final layers of a pretrained Vision Transformer (ViT). This widespread deep-layer bias, however,…
MCM-DPO: Multifaceted Cross-Modal Direct Preference Optimization for Alt-text Generation
Jinlan Fu, Shenzhen Huangfu, Hao Fei +4
The alt-text generation task produces concise, context-relevant descriptions of images, enabling blind and low-vision users to access online images. Despite the capabilities of lar…
LLM as Effective Streaming Processor: Bridging Streaming-Batch Mismatches with Group Position Encoding
Junlong Tong, Jinlan Fu, Zixuan Lin +4
Large Language Models (LLMs) are primarily designed for batch processing. Existing methods for adapting LLMs to streaming rely either on expensive re-encoding or specialized archit…
Investigating and Enhancing the Robustness of Large Multimodal Models Against Temporal Inconsistency
Jiafeng Liang, Shixin Jiang, Xuan Dong +7
Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) have recently demonstrated impressive performance on general video comprehension benchmarks. Nevertheless, for broader applications, the robustness o…
Multi-Layer Visual Feature Fusion in Multimodal LLMs: Methods, Analysis, and Best Practices
Junyan Lin, Haoran Chen, Yue Fan +5
Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have made significant advancements in recent years, with visual features playing an increasingly critical role in enhancing model performan…