- SODIUM: From Open Web Data to Queryable Databases
Chuxuan Hu, Philip Li, Maxwell Yang, Daniel Kang · Mar 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
Expert Verification Automatic Metrics Multi Agent
Existing systems struggle with SODIUM tasks: we evaluate 6 advanced AI agents on SODIUM-Bench, with the strongest baseline achieving only 46.5% accuracy.
- Meanings and Measurements: Multi-Agent Probabilistic Grounding for Vision-Language Navigation
Swagat Padhan, Lakshya Jain, Bhavya Minesh Shah, Omkar Patil, Thao Nguyen · Mar 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
Demonstrations Simulation Env Multi Agent
To address this limitation, we propose MAPG (Multi-Agent Probabilistic Grounding), an agentic framework that decomposes language queries into structured subcomponents and queries a VLM to ground each component.
- Step-CoT: Stepwise Visual Chain-of-Thought for Medical Visual Question Answering
Lin Fan, Yafei Ou, Zhipeng Deng, Pengyu Dai, Hou Chongxian · Mar 14, 2026 · Citations: 0
Expert Verification Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Benchmark: github.com/hahaha111111/Step-CoT.
- SOLE-R1: Video-Language Reasoning as the Sole Reward for On-Robot Reinforcement Learning
Philip Schroeder, Thomas Weng, Karl Schmeckpeper, Eric Rosen, Stephen Hart · Mar 30, 2026 · Citations: 0
Demonstrations Simulation Env Long Horizon
To address this limitation, we introduce SOLE-R1 (Self-Observing LEarner), a video-language reasoning model explicitly designed to serve as the sole reward signal for online RL.
- SleepVLM: Explainable and Rule-Grounded Sleep Staging via a Vision-Language Model
Guifeng Deng, Pan Wang, Jiquan Wang, Shuying Rao, Junyi Xie · Mar 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
Expert Verification Automatic Metrics
Expert evaluations further validated the quality of the model's reasoning, with mean scores exceeding 4.0/5.0 for factual accuracy, evidence comprehensiveness, and logical coherence.
- A Multidisciplinary AI Board for Multimodal Dementia Characterization and Risk Assessment
Sheng Liu, Long Chen, Zeyun Zhao, Qinglin Gou, Qingyue Wei · Mar 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
Expert Verification Automatic Metrics Multi Agent
We present Cerebra, an interactive multi-agent AI team that coordinates specialized agents for EHR, clinical notes, and medical imaging analysis.
- CRIMSON: A Clinically-Grounded LLM-Based Metric for Generative Radiology Report Evaluation
Mohammed Baharoon, Thibault Heintz, Siavash Raissi, Mahmoud Alabbad, Mona Alhammad · Mar 6, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
We introduce CRIMSON, a clinically grounded evaluation framework for chest X-ray report generation that assesses reports based on diagnostic correctness, contextual relevance, and patient safety.
- BEACON: Language-Conditioned Navigation Affordance Prediction under Occlusion
Xinyu Gao, Gang Chen, Javier Alonso-Mora · Mar 10, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic MetricsSimulation Env Web Browsing
As a result, they struggle to infer target locations in occluded regions, typically caused by furniture or moving humans.
- MUSE: A Run-Centric Platform for Multimodal Unified Safety Evaluation of Large Language Models
Zhongxi Wang, Yueqian Lin, Jingyang Zhang, Hai Helen Li, Yiran Chen · Mar 3, 2026 · Citations: 0
Red Team Automatic Metrics Web Browsing
Safety evaluation and red-teaming of large language models remain predominantly text-centric, and existing frameworks lack the infrastructure to systematically test whether alignment generalizes to audio, image, and video inputs.
- MedXIAOHE: A Comprehensive Recipe for Building Medical MLLMs
Baorong Shi, Bo Cui, Boyuan Jiang, Deli Yu, Fang Qian · Feb 13, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise PreferenceRubric Rating Long Horizon
MedXIAOHE achieves state-of-the-art performance across diverse medical benchmarks and surpasses leading closed-source multimodal systems on multiple capabilities.
- MMEmb-R1: Reasoning-Enhanced Multimodal Embedding with Pair-Aware Selection and Adaptive Control
Yuchi Wang, Haiyang Yu, Weikang Bian, Jiefeng Long, Xiao Liang · Apr 7, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
Experiments on the MMEB-V2 benchmark demonstrate that our model achieves a score of 71.2 with only 4B parameters, establishing a new state-of-the-art while significantly reducing reasoning overhead and inference latency.
- SurGo-R1: Benchmarking and Modeling Contextual Reasoning for Operative Zone in Surgical Video
Guanyi Qin, Xiaozhen Wang, Zhu Zhuo, Chang Han Low, Yuancan Xiao · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Expert Verification Automatic Metrics
Existing AI systems offer binary safety verification or static detection, ignoring the phase-dependent nature of intraoperative reasoning.
- Self-Correcting VLA: Online Action Refinement via Sparse World Imagination
Chenyv Liu, Wentao Tan, Lei Zhu, Fengling Li, Jingjing Li · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Long Horizon
Reinforcement learning enhances physical grounding through exploration yet typically relies on external reward signals that remain isolated from the agent's internal states.
- TimeWarp: Evaluating Web Agents by Revisiting the Past
Md Farhan Ishmam, Kenneth Marino · Mar 5, 2026 · Citations: 0
Demonstrations Web Browsing
The improvement of web agents on current benchmarks raises the question: Do today's agents perform just as well when the web changes?
- The Vision Wormhole: Latent-Space Communication in Heterogeneous Multi-Agent Systems
Xiaoze Liu, Ruowang Zhang, Weichen Yu, Siheng Xiong, Liu He · Feb 17, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Multi Agent
Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) powered by Large Language Models have unlocked advanced collaborative reasoning, yet they remain shackled by the inefficiency of discrete text communication, which imposes significant runtime overhead and…
- FEAST: Fully Connected Expressive Attention for Spatial Transcriptomics
Taejin Jeong, Joohyeok Kim, Jinyeong Kim, Chanyoung Kim, Seong Jae Hwang · Mar 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
To address this, we propose FEAST (Fully connected Expressive Attention for Spatial Transcriptomics), an attention-based framework that models the tissue as a fully connected graph, enabling the consideration of all pairwise interactions.
- TriAttention: Efficient Long Reasoning with Trigonometric KV Compression
Weian Mao, Xi Lin, Wei Huang, Yuxin Xie, Tianfu Fu · Apr 6, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
Via the trigonometric series, we use the distance preference characterized by these centers to score keys according to their positions, and also leverage Q/K norms as an additional signal for importance estimation.
- ActionParty: Multi-Subject Action Binding in Generative Video Games
Alexander Pondaven, Ziyi Wu, Igor Gilitschenski, Philip Torr, Sergey Tulyakov · Apr 2, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic MetricsSimulation Env Multi Agent
However, these models are largely restricted to single-agent settings, failing to control multiple agents simultaneously in a scene.
- MoD-DPO: Towards Mitigating Cross-modal Hallucinations in Omni LLMs using Modality Decoupled Preference Optimization
Ashutosh Chaubey, Jiacheng Pang, Mohammad Soleymani · Mar 3, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
In this work, we propose Modality-Decoupled Direct Preference Optimization (MoD-DPO), a simple and effective framework for improving modality grounding in omni LLMs.
- DynamicGTR: Leveraging Graph Topology Representation Preferences to Boost VLM Capabilities on Graph QAs
Yanbin Wei, Jiangyue Yan, Chun Kang, Yang Chen, Hua Liu · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
This ``one-size-fits-all'' strategy often neglects model-specific and task-specific preferences, resulting in inaccurate or over-lengthy responses to graph-related queries.
- Integrating Deep RL and Bayesian Inference for ObjectNav in Mobile Robotics
João Castelo-Branco, José Santos-Victor, Alexandre Bernardino · Mar 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Web Browsing
Autonomous object search is challenging for mobile robots operating in indoor environments due to partial observability, perceptual uncertainty, and the need to trade off exploration and navigation efficiency.
- LiLo-VLA: Compositional Long-Horizon Manipulation via Linked Object-Centric Policies
Yue Yang, Shuo Cheng, Yu Fang, Homanga Bharadhwaj, Mingyu Ding · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Long Horizon
We introduce a 21-task simulation benchmark consisting of two challenging suites: LIBERO-Long++ and Ultra-Long.
- CCCaption: Dual-Reward Reinforcement Learning for Complete and Correct Image Captioning
Zhijiang Tang, Linhua Wang, Jiaxin Qi, Weihao Jiang, Peng Hou · Feb 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference Automatic Metrics
Image captioning remains a fundamental task for vision language understanding, yet ground-truth supervision still relies predominantly on human-annotated references.
- PASK: Toward Intent-Aware Proactive Agents with Long-Term Memory
Zhifei Xie, Zongzheng Hu, Fangda Ye, Xin Zhang, Haobo Chai · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Prior work remains largely confined to laboratory settings, leaving a clear gap in real-world proactive agent: depth, complexity, ambiguity, precision and real-time constraints.
- LRC-WeatherNet: LiDAR, RADAR, and Camera Fusion Network for Real-time Weather-type Classification in Autonomous Driving
Nour Alhuda Albashir, Lars Pernickel, Danial Hamoud, Idriss Gouigah, Eren Erdal Aksoy · Mar 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Autonomous vehicles face major perception and navigation challenges in adverse weather such as rain, fog, and snow, which degrade the performance of LiDAR, RADAR, and RGB camera sensors.
- Zooming without Zooming: Region-to-Image Distillation for Fine-Grained Multimodal Perception
Lai Wei, Liangbo He, Jun Lan, Lingzhong Dong, Yutong Cai · Feb 12, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Tool Use
To address this, we propose Region-to-Image Distillation, which transforms zooming from an inference-time tool into a training-time primitive, thereby internalizing the benefits of agentic zooming into a single forward pass of an MLLM.
- Less Is More? Selective Visual Attention to High-Importance Regions for Multimodal Radiology Summarization
Mst. Fahmida Sultana Naznin, Adnan Ibney Faruq, Mushfiqur Rahman, Niloy Kumar Mondal, Md. Mehedi Hasan Shawon · Mar 31, 2026 · Citations: 0
Human EvalAutomatic Metrics
Through controlled ablations on MIMIC-CXR benchmark, we show that selectively focusing on pathology-relevant visual patches rather than full images yields substantially better performance.
- Act Wisely: Cultivating Meta-Cognitive Tool Use in Agentic Multimodal Models
Shilin Yan, Jintao Tong, Hongwei Xue, Xiaojun Tang, Yangyang Wang · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Tool Use
The advent of agentic multimodal models has empowered systems to actively interact with external environments.
- EndoCoT: Scaling Endogenous Chain-of-Thought Reasoning in Diffusion Models
Xuanlang Dai, Yujie Zhou, Long Xing, Jiazi Bu, Xilin Wei · Mar 12, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Extensive evaluations across diverse benchmarks (e.g., Maze, TSP, VSP, and Sudoku) achieve an average accuracy of 92.1%, outperforming the strongest baseline by 8.3 percentage points.
- Video-Based Reward Modeling for Computer-Use Agents
Linxin Song, Jieyu Zhang, Huanxin Sheng, Taiwei Shi, Gupta Rahul · Mar 10, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Computer-using agents (CUAs) are becoming increasingly capable; however, it remains difficult to scale evaluation of whether a trajectory truly fulfills a user instruction.
- Seeing but Not Thinking: Routing Distraction in Multimodal Mixture-of-Experts
Haolei Xu, Haiwen Hong, Hongxing Li, Rui Zhou, Yang Zhang · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
Expert Verification
Experiments on three multimodal MoE models across six benchmarks demonstrate consistent improvements, with gains of up to 3.17% on complex visual reasoning tasks.
- On the Reliability of Cue Conflict and Beyond
Pum Jun Kim, Seung-Ah Lee, Seongho Park, Dongyoon Han, Jaejun Yoo · Mar 11, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
Understanding how neural networks rely on visual cues offers a human-interpretable view of their internal decision processes.
- Risk-Aware World Model Predictive Control for Generalizable End-to-End Autonomous Driving
Jiangxin Sun, Feng Xue, Teng Long, Chang Liu, Jian-Fang Hu · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
Demonstrations
Practically, RaWMPC leverages a world model to predict the consequences of multiple candidate actions and selects low-risk actions through explicit risk evaluation.
- pMoE: Prompting Diverse Experts Together Wins More in Visual Adaptation
Shentong Mo, Xufang Luo, Dongsheng Li · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
Expert Verification
In this work, we propose a novel Mixture-of-Experts prompt tuning method called pMoE, which leverages the strengths of multiple expert domains through expert-specialized prompt tokens and the learnable dispatcher, effectively combining…
- GameplayQA: A Benchmarking Framework for Decision-Dense POV-Synced Multi-Video Understanding of 3D Virtual Agents
Yunzhe Wang, Runhui Xu, Kexin Zheng, Tianyi Zhang, Jayavibhav Niranjan Kogundi · Mar 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Multi Agent
Multimodal LLMs are increasingly deployed as perceptual backbones for autonomous agents in 3D environments, from robotics to virtual worlds.
- MALLVI: A Multi-Agent Framework for Integrated Generalized Robotics Manipulation
Iman Ahmadi, Mehrshad Taji, Arad Mahdinezhad Kashani, AmirHossein Jadidi, Saina Kashani · Feb 18, 2026 · Citations: 0
Simulation Env Multi Agent
MALLVI presents a Multi Agent Large Language and Vision framework that enables closed-loop feedback driven robotic manipulation.
- Appear2Meaning: A Cross-Cultural Benchmark for Structured Cultural Metadata Inference from Images
Yuechen Jiang, Enze Zhang, Md Mohsinul Kabir, Qianqian Xie, Stavroula Golfomitsou · Apr 8, 2026 · Citations: 0
Llm As JudgeAutomatic Metrics
We introduce a multi-category, cross-cultural benchmark for this task and evaluate VLMs using an LLM-as-Judge framework that measures semantic alignment with reference annotations.
- Cross-Modal Rationale Transfer for Explainable Humanitarian Classification on Social Media
Thi Huyen Nguyen, Koustav Rudra, Wolfgang Nejdl · Mar 19, 2026 · Citations: 0
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Experiments are conducted over CrisisMMD benchmark dataset, and results show that our proposed method boosts the classification Macro-F1 by 2-35% while extracting accurate text tokens and image patches as rationales.
- LED: A Benchmark for Evaluating Layout Error Detection in Document Analysis
Inbum Heo, Taewook Hwang, Jeesu Jung, Sangkeun Jung · Mar 18, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic MetricsSimulation Env
To overcome this limitation, we propose Layout Error Detection (LED), a benchmark that evaluates structural reasoning in DLA predictions beyond surface-level accuracy.
- Novel Memory Forgetting Techniques for Autonomous AI Agents: Balancing Relevance and Efficiency
Payal Fofadiya, Sunil Tiwari · Apr 2, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Long-horizon conversational agents require persistent memory for coherent reasoning, yet uncontrolled accumulation causes temporal decay and false memory propagation.
- HippoCamp: Benchmarking Contextual Agents on Personal Computers
Zhe Yang, Shulin Tian, Kairui Hu, Shuai Liu, Hoang-Nhat Nguyen · Apr 1, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Tool Use
We present HippoCamp, a new benchmark designed to evaluate agents' capabilities on multimodal file management.
- PerceptionComp: A Video Benchmark for Complex Perception-Centric Reasoning
Shaoxuan Li, Zhixuan Zhao, Hanze Deng, Zirun Ma, Shulin Tian · Mar 27, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
We introduce PerceptionComp, a manually annotated benchmark for complex, long-horizon, perception-centric video reasoning.
- Rethinking SAR ATR: A Target-Aware Frequency-Spatial Enhancement Framework with Noise-Resilient Knowledge Guidance
Yansong Lin, Zihan Cheng, Jielei Wang, Guoming Lua, Zongyong Cui · Mar 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Web Browsing
However, the coherent speckle noise inherent in SAR imagery often obscures salient target features, leading to degraded recognition accuracy and limited model generalization.
- From Verbatim to Gist: Distilling Pyramidal Multimodal Memory via Semantic Information Bottleneck for Long-Horizon Video Agents
Niu Lian, Yuting Wang, Hanshu Yao, Jinpeng Wang, Bin Chen · Mar 2, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
While multimodal large language models have demonstrated impressive short-term reasoning, they struggle with long-horizon video understanding due to limited context windows and static memory mechanisms that fail to mirror human cognitive…
- Spatio-Temporal Token Pruning for Efficient High-Resolution GUI Agents
Zhou Xu, Bowen Zhou, Qi Wang, Shuwen Feng, Jingyu Xiao · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Web Browsing
Pure-vision GUI agents provide universal interaction capabilities but suffer from severe efficiency bottlenecks due to the massive spatiotemporal redundancy inherent in high-resolution screenshots and historical trajectories.
- Classroom Final Exam: An Instructor-Tested Reasoning Benchmark
Chongyang Gao, Diji Yang, Shuyan Zhou, Xichen Yan, Luchuan Song · Feb 23, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
We introduce (Classroom Final Exam), a multimodal benchmark for evaluating the reasoning capabilities of large language models across more than 20 STEM domains.
- VIGiA: Instructional Video Guidance via Dialogue Reasoning and Retrieval
Diogo Glória-Silva, David Semedo, João Maglhães · Feb 22, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Long Horizon
Our evaluation shows that VIGiA outperforms existing state-of-the-art models on all tasks in a conversational plan guidance setting, reaching over 90\% accuracy on plan-aware VQA.
- AI Security in the Foundation Model Era: A Comprehensive Survey from a Unified Perspective
Zhenyi Wang, Siyu Luan · Mar 25, 2026 · Citations: 0
Red Team
To address this critical gap, we propose a unified closed-loop threat taxonomy that explicitly frames model-data interactions along four directional axes.
- Two Birds, One Projection: Harmonizing Safety and Utility in LVLMs via Inference-time Feature Projection
Yewon Han, Yumin Seol, EunGyung Kong, Minsoo Jo, Taesup Kim · Mar 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
Red Team
Existing jailbreak defence frameworks for Large Vision-Language Models often suffer from a safety utility tradeoff, where strengthening safety inadvertently degrades performance on general visual-grounded reasoning tasks.
- COMIC: Agentic Sketch Comedy Generation
Susung Hong, Brian Curless, Ira Kemelmacher-Shlizerman, Steve Seitz · Mar 11, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
Starting with character references, the system employs a population of agents loosely based on real production studio roles, structured to optimize the quality and diversity of ideas and outputs through iterative competition, evaluation,…
- Moral Preferences of LLMs Under Directed Contextual Influence
Phil Blandfort, Tushar Karayil, Urja Pawar, Robert Graham, Alex McKenzie · Feb 26, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
Moral benchmarks for LLMs typically use context-free prompts, implicitly assuming stable preferences.
- How to Train Your Long-Context Visual Document Model
Austin Veselka · Feb 16, 2026 · Citations: 0
Pairwise Preference
We systematically study continued pretraining, supervised finetuning, and preference optimization for 24B and 32B parameter models, backed by extensive LC evaluations and ablations to bridge this gap, and achieve state-of-the-art…
- PyVision-RL: Forging Open Agentic Vision Models via RL
Shitian Zhao, Shaoheng Lin, Ming Li, Haoquan Zhang, Wenshuo Peng · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
Automatic Metrics Tool Use
Reinforcement learning for agentic multimodal models often suffers from interaction collapse, where models learn to reduce tool usage and multi-turn reasoning, limiting the benefits of agentic behavior.
- Onboard-Targeted Segmentation of Straylight in Space Camera Sensors
Riccardo Gallon, Fabian Schiemenz, Alessandra Menicucci, Eberhard Gill · Feb 24, 2026 · Citations: 0
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This study details an artificial intelligence (AI)-based methodology for the semantic segmentation of space camera faults.
- SIM1: Physics-Aligned Simulator as Zero-Shot Data Scaler in Deformable Worlds
Yunsong Zhou, Hangxu Liu, Xuekun Jiang, Xing Shen, Yuanzhen Zhou · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- RewardFlow: Generate Images by Optimizing What You Reward
Onkar Susladkar, Dong-Hwan Jang, Tushar Prakash, Adheesh Juvekar, Vedant Shah · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Quantifying Explanation Consistency: The C-Score Metric for CAM-Based Explainability in Medical Image Classification
Kabilan Elangovan, Daniel Ting · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- Faithful GRPO: Improving Visual Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models via Constrained Policy Optimization
Sai Srinivas Kancheti, Aditya Kanade, Rohit Sinha, Vineeth N Balasubramanian, Tanuja Ganu · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- OVS-DINO: Open-Vocabulary Segmentation via Structure-Aligned SAM-DINO with Language Guidance
Haoxi Zeng, Qiankun Liu, Yi Bin, Haiyue Zhang, Yujuan Ding · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0
- CrashSight: A Phase-Aware, Infrastructure-Centric Video Benchmark for Traffic Crash Scene Understanding and Reasoning
Rui Gan, Junyi Ma, Pei Li, Xingyou Yang, Kai Chen · Apr 9, 2026 · Citations: 0