The field of vision-language models is rapidly evolving, with a focus on improving efficiency, accuracy, and robustness. Recent developments have centered around addressing the challenges of hallucination, overconfidence, and positional encoding failures in these models. Innovations such as token-level inference-time alignment, gaze shift-guided cross-modal fusion, and dynamic patch reduction via interpretable pooling have shown promising results in mitigating these issues. Furthermore, researchers have explored new training paradigms, including self-distilled preference-based cold start and pairwise training for unified multimodal language models, to enhance the performance and generalization of vision-language models. Noteworthy papers include Modest-Align, which proposes a lightweight alignment framework for robustness and efficiency, and SteerVLM, which introduces a lightweight steering module for guiding vision-language models towards desired outputs. Overall, the field is moving towards more efficient, accurate, and controllable vision-language models, with potential applications in autonomous vehicles, multimodal understanding, and language-guided reinforcement learning.
Advances in Vision-Language Models
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Modest-Align: Data-Efficient Alignment for Vision-Language Models
Token-Level Inference-Time Alignment for Vision-Language Models
Capturing Gaze Shifts for Guidance: Cross-Modal Fusion Enhancement for VLM Hallucination Mitigation
Mitigating Coordinate Prediction Bias from Positional Encoding Failures
BLIP-FusePPO: A Vision-Language Deep Reinforcement Learning Framework for Lane Keeping in Autonomous Vehicles
FastVLM: Self-Speculative Decoding for Fast Vision-Language Model Inference
Positional Preservation Embedding for Multimodal Large Language Models
Revisiting Multimodal Positional Encoding in Vision-Language Models
Adapting Interleaved Encoders with PPO for Language-Guided Reinforcement Learning in BabyAI
MergeMix: A Unified Augmentation Paradigm for Visual and Multi-Modal Understanding
VOLD: Reasoning Transfer from LLMs to Vision-Language Models via On-Policy Distillation
DRIP: Dynamic patch Reduction via Interpretable Pooling
PairUni: Pairwise Training for Unified Multimodal Language Models
Metis-SPECS: Decoupling Multimodal Learning via Self-distilled Preference-based Cold Start
Angular Steering: Behavior Control via Rotation in Activation Space
SteerVLM: Robust Model Control through Lightweight Activation Steering for Vision Language Models