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Hierarchical Pre-Training of Vision Encoders with Large Language Models

Eugene Lee, Ting-Yu Chang, Jui-Huang Tsai, Jiajie Diao +1 more

Published

Mar 31, 2026

Citations

0

Trust level

Low

Usefulness score

0/100 (Low)

Extraction confidence

25% (Low)

Derived from extracted protocol signals and abstract evidence.

Rater population

Not reported

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Should you rely on this paper?

This paper is adjacent to HFEPX scope and is best used for background context, not as a primary protocol reference.

Use this as background context only. Do not make protocol decisions from this page alone.

Best use

Background context only

Use if you need

Background context only.

What to verify

Validate the evaluation procedure and quality controls in the full paper before operational use.

Main weakness

This paper looks adjacent to evaluation work, but not like a strong protocol reference.

Human feedback signal
Not explicit
Not explicit in abstract metadata
Evaluation signal
Weak or implicit
Validate from full paper
Usefulness for eval research
0/100
Adjacent candidate

Treat as adjacent context, not a core eval-method reference.

If you are doing eval pipeline work, start here

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Abstract

The field of computer vision has experienced significant advancements through scalable vision encoders and multimodal pre-training frameworks. However, existing approaches often treat vision encoders and large language models (LLMs) as independent modules, limiting the integration of hierarchical visual features. In this work, we propose HIVE (Hierarchical Pre-Training of Vision Encoders), a novel framework that enhances vision-language alignment by introducing hierarchical cross-attention between the vision encoder and LLM. Unlike conventional methods that flatten image embeddings, HIVE enables structured feature fusion across multiple layers, improving gradient flow and representation learning. To optimize this interaction, we introduce a three-stage training strategy that progressively aligns the vision encoder with the LLM, ensuring stable optimization and effective multimodal fusion. Empirical evaluations demonstrate that HIVE achieves superior performance not only in image classification but also on various vision-language tasks, outperforming self-attention-based methods in benchmarks such as MME, GQA, OK-VQA, and ScienceQA. Our results highlight the benefits of hierarchical feature integration, paving the way for more efficient and expressive vision-language models.

What we could verify

These are the protocol signals we could actually recover from the available paper metadata. Use them to decide whether this paper is worth deeper reading.

Human Feedback Types

missing

None explicit

No explicit feedback protocol extracted.

"The field of computer vision has experienced significant advancements through scalable vision encoders and multimodal pre-training frameworks."

Evaluation Modes

missing

None explicit

Validate eval design from full paper text.

"The field of computer vision has experienced significant advancements through scalable vision encoders and multimodal pre-training frameworks."

Quality Controls

missing

Not reported

No explicit QC controls found.

"The field of computer vision has experienced significant advancements through scalable vision encoders and multimodal pre-training frameworks."

Benchmarks / Datasets

partial

ScienceQA

Useful for quick benchmark comparison.

"Empirical evaluations demonstrate that HIVE achieves superior performance not only in image classification but also on various vision-language tasks, outperforming self-attention-based methods in benchmarks such as MME, GQA, OK-VQA, and ScienceQA."

Reported Metrics

missing

Not extracted

No metric anchors detected.

"The field of computer vision has experienced significant advancements through scalable vision encoders and multimodal pre-training frameworks."

Benchmarks and datasets

ScienceQA

Reported metrics

No metric terms were extracted from the available abstract.

Human feedback details
Uses human feedback
No
Feedback types
None
Rater population
Not reported
Expertise required
General
Evaluation details
Evaluation modes
None
Agentic eval
None
Quality controls
Not reported
Evidence quality
Low
Use this page as
Background context only

Research brief

Metadata summary

The field of computer vision has experienced significant advancements through scalable vision encoders and multimodal pre-training frameworks.

Based on abstract + metadata only. Check the source paper before making high-confidence protocol decisions.

Key takeaways

  • The field of computer vision has experienced significant advancements through scalable vision encoders and multimodal pre-training frameworks.
  • However, existing approaches often treat vision encoders and large language models (LLMs) as independent modules, limiting the integration of hierarchical visual features.
  • In this work, we propose HIVE (Hierarchical Pre-Training of Vision Encoders), a novel framework that enhances vision-language alignment by introducing hierarchical cross-attention between the vision encoder and LLM.

Researcher actions

  • Compare this paper against nearby papers in the same arXiv category before using it for protocol decisions.
  • Check the full text for explicit evaluation design choices (raters, protocol, and metrics).
  • Use related-paper links to find stronger protocol-specific references.

Caveats

  • Generated from abstract + metadata only; no PDF parsing.
  • Signals below are heuristic and may miss details reported outside the abstract.

Recommended queries

Contribution summary

  • In this work, we propose HIVE (Hierarchical Pre-Training of Vision Encoders), a novel framework that enhances vision-language alignment by introducing hierarchical cross-attention between the vision encoder and LLM.
  • To optimize this interaction, we introduce a three-stage training strategy that progressively aligns the vision encoder with the LLM, ensuring stable optimization and effective multimodal fusion.
  • Empirical evaluations demonstrate that HIVE achieves superior performance not only in image classification but also on various vision-language tasks, outperforming self-attention-based methods in benchmarks such as MME, GQA, OK-VQA, and…

Why it matters for eval

  • Empirical evaluations demonstrate that HIVE achieves superior performance not only in image classification but also on various vision-language tasks, outperforming self-attention-based methods in benchmarks such as MME, GQA, OK-VQA, and…

Researcher checklist

  • Human feedback protocol is explicit

    No explicit human feedback protocol detected.

  • Evaluation mode is explicit

    No clear evaluation mode extracted.

  • Quality control reporting appears

    No calibration/adjudication/IAA control explicitly detected.

  • Benchmark or dataset anchors are present

    Detected: ScienceQA

  • Metric reporting is present

    No metric terms extracted.