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  1. PREM: Prefix-Steered Recurrent Memory for Long-Video Understanding

    Sep 20, 2026Siru Zhong, Qiongyan Wang, Xiaohui Lv +5Frozen Vision-Language Models

  2. Symmetry-Aware Likelihood-Orbit Aggregation for Selective Left-Right Claim Verification

    Sep 15, 2026Zhouzhi Xiong, Chuxi Zhang, Weizhen He +3Noisy Claim VerificationFrozen Vision-Language Models

  3. Human-Grounded Calibration for Long-Text Image-Text Congruence in Vision-Language Models

    Sep 14, 2026Alessandro Gambetti, Qiwei HanFrozen Vision-Language ModelsSemantic Similarity Metrics

  4. CLAMP: Constrained Decoding for Vision-Language Embodied Planning

    Sep 8, 2026Tianyi Ma, Parisa KordjamshidiClassical PlanningFrozen Vision-Language Models

  5. LLaDA-Image: Building Strong Image Generators with Fully Open Training Recipes

    Sep 3, 2026Chuyan Chen, Haoxing Chen, Kun Chen +27Single ImagesFrozen Vision-Language Models

  6. When Do Frozen VLMs Respond to Image-Free Object-Token Edits? An Answer-Key-Free Protocol and What It Reveals

    Sep 3, 2026Wonbin Son, Gyumun Choi, Junil Seo +3Frozen Vision-Language ModelsKnowledge-Based Visual Question Answering

  7. Quantum-Grassmann-Plucker Token Mixing for Deep Learning-Based Post-Disaster Damage Assessment

    Aug 31, 2026Kooroush Farahkhah, Umut Lagap, Taha Rezaei +1Post-Disaster Damage AssessmentImage Classification

  8. VideoHarness-RSI: Recursive Harness Self-Improvement for Long-Video Understanding with Frozen Vision-Language Models

    Aug 25, 2026Guoyang Xu, Hao ChenVideo UnderstandingFrozen Vision-Language Models

  9. V-RAE: Rethinking Video Latent Spaces for Generation

    Aug 13, 2026Minghui Guo, Shengqiong Wu, Hao FeiAutoregressive Video GenerationVariational Autoencoder

  10. Spatial Memory Agent: Experience-Grounded Procedure Memory for Spatial Intelligence

    Aug 13, 2026Haokai Zhang, Yuhang Ding, Yunshu Zhou +5Spatial ReasoningExplicit Memory

  11. Post-Hoc Sparse Coding of Latent Communication Between Vision-Language Model Agents

    Aug 10, 2026Di Wu, Xiaohui ZhuFrozen Vision-Language ModelsCommunication

  12. GeoPhysAdapter: Scale-Matched Geophysical Adaptation for Cross-Domain Landslide Mapping with Vision Foundation Models

    Aug 10, 2026Zhihang Liu, Mei-Po Kwan, Jinlin Wu +1LandslidesGeospatial Foundation Models

  13. When Semantics Saturate or Emerge: Adaptation-Conditional Semantic Utility in Source-Free Cross-Domain Few-Shot Learning

    Aug 7, 2026Wei Liu, Xing Deng, Haijian ShaoFrozen Vision-Language ModelsSaturation

  14. SCI-CLIP: Segment-Centric Inference with Reference Memory for Training-Free Open-Vocabulary Segmentation

    Aug 6, 2026Mohamad Zamini, Diksha ShuklaOpen-VocabularyFrozen Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training Visual Encoder

  15. Retrieve in Time, Correct in Frequency

    Aug 5, 2026Yuze Fan, Yue Cao, Pengjie Gao +7Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionFrozen Vision-Language Models

  16. DF3^3: World Modeling via Decoder-Free Feature Forecasting in Autonomous Navigation

    Aug 3, 2026Jiaming Chen, Guoan Xu, Aoshen Huang +3World ModelsFrozen Vision-Language Models

  17. Foveated Probes Recover Localized Binding Information in Vision Foundation Models

    Aug 1, 2026Mateusz Michalkiewicz, Mahsa Baktashmotlagh, Guha BalakrishnanFrozen Vision-Language ModelsVision Foundation Models

  18. WCM: A World Critic Model for Vision-Language-Action Reinforcement Learning

    Jul 31, 2026Senyu Fei, Xiaopeng Yu, Siyin Wang +3Vision-Language-Action ModelsWorld Models

  19. ObjectStream: Latent Objects as Memory Anchors for Streaming Video Understanding

    Jul 30, 2026Mingkang Dong, Muxin Pu, Jie Li +8Video UnderstandingVisual Tokens

  20. The Gate Always Closes: On Injecting Auxiliary Signals into Frozen Vision-Language Models

    Jul 25, 2026Moshiur Farazi, Sameera Ramasinghe, Bekir Sait Ciftler +2Frozen Vision-Language Models

  21. Rethinking Layer-Wise Information Allocation for Vision Foundation Model Adaptation

    Jul 24, 2026Yuqi Li, Xi Xiao, Yunbei Zhang +6Vision Foundation ModelsFrozen Vision-Language Models

  22. Sparse Concept Channels in Frozen 3D CT Vision Encoders

    Jul 23, 2026Farhad Nooralahzadeh, Lea Bogensperger, Christian Bluethgen +1Medical Vision-Language ModelsFrozen Encoder

  23. GLID: Gated Local Intrinsic Dimension Repairs the Blind Spots of Face-Forgery Detectors

    Jul 21, 2026Guang Yang, Fengchen LiuFace Forgery DetectionGenerative Adversarial Network

  24. Think at 5 Hz, Act at 20 Hz: Asynchronous Fast-Slow Vision-Language-Action Inference for Closed-Loop Driving

    Jul 17, 2026Yun Li, Jiachen Gong, Simon Thompson +7Efficient Vision-Language-Action ModelsPretrained Vision-Language-Action

  25. Emergent Region-Level Facial Correspondence in Frozen Vision Foundation Models

    Jul 15, 2026Izaldein Al-Zyoud, Abdulmotaleb El SaddikDinov3Frozen Vision-Language Models

  26. Text2Sign: A Single-GPU Diffusion Baseline for Text-to-Sign Language Video Generation

    Jul 14, 2026Ruize XiaText-To-Video ModelsSign Language

  27. Harness VLA: Steering Frozen VLAs into Reliable Manipulation Primitives via Memory-Guided Agents

    Jul 9, 2026Yixian Zhang, Huanming Zhang, Feng Gao +13Vision-Language-Action ModelsVisuomotor Control

  28. Token-Based Dual-view Fusion and Adaptation of Large Vision Models for Breast Cancer Classification

    Jul 7, 2026Aysan Ghayouri Pirsoltan, Shima Babakordi, Mohammad Reza MohammadiMammographyFeature Fusion

  29. Look Before You Leap: Distilling Tree Search into Action Evaluation for Frozen VLA Models

    Jul 4, 2026Xinyi Xie, Zican Hu, Zhanyu Liu +7Frozen Vision-Language ModelsTree Search

  30. Present but Not Remembered: Auditing How Frozen VLAs Encode, Deploy, and Steer Visual History

    Jul 3, 2026Chih-Ting Liao, Xin CaoFrozen Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language-Action Models

  31. When Does Resolution Help a Frozen Backbone? Global Attention at Resolution Predicts Scalable Adaptation for Camouflaged and Marine Animal Segmentation

    Jul 2, 2026Tyler Rust, Chandra KambhamettuFrozen Vision-Language ModelsSelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

  32. VLRC: Vision-Language Reprojection Consistency as a scalable signal for better feed-forward 3D pretraining

    Jul 2, 2026Marwane Hariat, David Filliat, Antoine ManzaneraFeed-Forward 3D Reconstruction3D Scene Understanding

  33. Guided Action Flow: Q-Guided Inference for Flow-Matching Vision-Language-Action Policies

    Jul 2, 2026Liuhaichen Yang, Zhuang Jiang, Chenchao Sheng +1Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionFrozen Vision-Language Models

  34. DART-VLN: Test-Time Memory Decay and Anti-Loop Regularization for Discrete Vision-Language Navigation

    Jul 1, 2026Shaoheng Zhang, Zhichen Li, Jie MeiVision-Language NavigationFrozen Vision-Language Models

  35. LeVLJEPA: End-to-End Vision-Language Pretraining Without Negatives

    Jul 1, 2026Lukas Kuhn, Giuseppe Serra, Randall Balestriero +1Large Vision Language ModelsFrozen Vision-Language Models

  36. PruneGround: Plug-and-play Spatial Pruning for 3D Visual Grounding

    Jun 30, 2026Duc Cao Dinh, Khai Le-Duc, Florent Draye +43D Visual GroundingVision-Language Model Grounding

  37. HKVLM: Faithful Query--Region Binding for Frozen-Detector Visual Grounding

    Jun 27, 2026Bo MaFrozen Vision-Language ModelsVisual Grounding

  38. CLEAR-MoE: Shared-Basis Expert Extraction from Frozen Vision Transformers via Calibration-Driven Layer Selection

    Jun 26, 2026Md Irtiza Hossain, Humaira Ayesha, Junaid Ahmed SifatVision TransformerMixture-of-Experts Models

  39. VLM-Aware Meta-Optic Front-End Design for Frozen Vision-Language Models

    Jun 26, 2026Chanik Kang, Raphaël Pestourie, Haejun ChungFrozen Vision-Language ModelsMetamaterials

  40. VA-DPO: Valence-Arousal Direct Preference Optimization for Controllable Emotion Generation in Language Models

    Jun 23, 2026Hyunwoo KimValence-Arousal EstimationDirect Preference Optimization

  41. FetSelect: Task-Specific Architectures and Self-Supervised Learning for Automated Fetal Ultrasound Frame Selection

    Jun 21, 2026Mahmood Alzubaidi, Raden Muaz, Uzair Shah +4Prenatal UltrasoundUltrasound

  42. Multi-Label Test-Time Adaptation with Bayesian Conditional Priors

    Jun 11, 2026Qiru Li, Ao Zhou, Zhiwei Jiang +4Vision-Language Model AdaptationMulti-Label Classification

  43. From Content to Knowledge: Lightning Fast Long-Video Understanding with Neural Knowledge Representations

    Jun 10, 2026Yuchen Guan, Xiao Li, Zongyu Guo +4Video UnderstandingFrozen Vision-Language Models

  44. Frozen Foundation-Model Embeddings Discard Small-Lesion Signal in Chest Radiography: Implications for Pre-Deployment Evaluation

    Jun 10, 2026Raajitha Muthyala, Zhenan Yin, Alekhya Jilla +6Chest RadiographyFrozen Vision-Language Models

  45. SceneMiner: Identity-Preserving Multi-Task Fine-Tuning for Unified BEV Scene Mining

    Jun 9, 2026Abdalmalek Aburaddaha, Venkatraman Narayanan, Keval Thaker +1Scene RepresentationMulti--Task Learning

  46. Seeing Before Colliding: Anticipatory Safe RL with Frozen Vision-Language Models

    Jun 9, 2026Samuel Tetteh, Cody FlemingSafety ConstraintsConstrained Reinforcement Learning

  47. DRIFT: From Robustness Gaps to Invariance Manifolds for AI-Generated Image Detection

    Jun 5, 2026Abhishek Ameta, Sayan Banerjee, Shreyas Pandith +4Ai-Generated Image DetectionFrozen Vision-Language Models

  48. Low-Rank Adaptation of Frozen Vision-Language Models for Blind Image Quality Assessment

    Jun 1, 2026Bishr Omer Adam, Xu LiImage Quality AssessmentFrozen Vision-Language Models

  49. TALON: Token-Aligned Lightweight Adapters for 6-DoF Spacecraft Pose Estimation

    May 29, 2026Abid Ali, Arunkumar Rathinam, Djamila AouadaCategory-Level Object Pose EstimationFrozen Vision-Language Models

  50. Bias Leaves a Gradient Trail: Label-Free Bias Identification via Gradient Probes on Concept Decompositions

    May 27, 2026Thomas Vitry, Kieran Edgeworth, Stefan Wermter +1Bias MitigationImplicit Bias

  51. What Frozen VLAs Already Know About Success: A Probing Study of Value-Like Structure in Foundation Robot Policies

    May 27, 2026Jiachen Zhang, Junnan Nie, Junyi Lao +4Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionFrozen Vision-Language Models

  52. CMAP: Cross-Modal Adaptive Prompting for Multi-Domain Task-Incremental Learning

    May 25, 2026Sriram MandalikaCross-Modal AlignmentCross-Modal Learning

  53. Back to Parsimonious Latents: Learning Task-Centric World Models from Visual Foundations

    May 25, 2026Minghao Fu, Fan Feng, Nicklas Hansen +1World ModelsFrozen Vision-Language Models

  54. Rethinking Noise-Robust Training for Frozen Vision Foundation Models: A Cross-Dataset Benchmark with a Case Study of Small-Loss Failure

    May 21, 2026Zitong Li, Haoyu WangNoisy LabelsNoise-Aware

  55. Towards Data-Efficient Video Pre-training with Frozen Image Foundation Models

    May 18, 2026Svetlana Orlova, Niccolò Cavagnero, Gijs DubbelmanVideo PretrainingFrozen Vision-Language Models

  56. Vision Foundation Models as Generalist Tokenizers for Image Generation

    May 18, 2026Anlin Zheng, Qi Han, Xin Wen +5Visual TokensImage Generation

  57. GraSP-VL: Length as a Semantic Granularity Interface for Vision-Language Representations

    May 18, 2026Zesheng Li, Chengchang Pan, Honggang QiFrozen Vision-Language ModelsVision-Language

  58. BAT-Nav: Belief-Based Arbitration and Termination via Remaining Discoverability in Multi-Goal Semantic Navigation

    May 16, 2026Xi Lin, Kangyi Wu, Jiayi Li +3Object Goal NavigationLong-Horizon Planning

  59. GAP: Geometric Anchor Pre-training for Data-Efficient Visuomotor Learning of Manipulation Tasks

    May 15, 2026Davide Buoso, Andrea Protopapa, Stefano Di Carlo +2Visuomotor PolicyImitation Learning

  60. Learning with Semantic Priors: Stabilizing Point-Supervised Infrared Small Target Detection via Hierarchical Knowledge Distillation

    May 14, 2026Yuanhang Yao, Ping Qian, Zhu Liu +2Infrared Small Target DetectionDetection Framework