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  1. Allocation Before Ranking: Decoupled Token Compression for OmniLLMs

    Aug 3, 2026Zhenghui Guo, Yilin Yang, Yuanbin Man +5Token CompressionAudio Tokens

  2. Mitigating Visual Degradation in MLLMs via Spatial-Spectral Visual Anchor Learning

    Aug 3, 2026Qianlong Yang, Bowen Ye, Xianda Guo +4Multi-Modal Large Language ModelsVisual Degradation

  3. PixVL: Self-Supervised Training of Pixel-Level MLLMs via a Unified Mask--Text Consistency Cycle

    Aug 2, 2026Yicheng Xiao, Haoxuan Ma, Caorui Li +7Photometric SupervisionMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  4. Toward Fine-Grained Forgetting:Attribute Unlearning for Multimodal Large Language Models

    Aug 2, 2026Junkai Lin, Junkai Chen, Siqi Hou +5Large Language Model UnlearningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  5. GeoArbiter: Verifiability-Guided Grounding for Remote-Sensing Multimodal LLMs

    Aug 1, 2026Xuechen LiRemote SensingVerification-Triggered Multimodal

  6. Faster but Different: Diagnosing and Controlling Content Drift in Accelerated Multimodal Diffusion Language Models

    Jul 31, 2026Yaoxuan Dou, Yang ShuDiffusion Language ModelsTraining-Inference Mismatch

  7. Evaluation-Verification Reward for Consistent Multi-Reference Image Editing

    Jul 31, 2026Yingmao Miao, Pengfei Zhang, Xiaochen Lv +5Image EditingMultimodal Knowledge Editing

  8. SafeNexus: Discovering and Steering Modality-Universal Safety Neurons in MLLMs

    Jul 31, 2026Jian Yu, Fei Shen, Cong Wang +5Safety AlignmentMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  9. PathView-Bench: Can Multimodal Large Language Models Achieve Fine-grained Multiscale Understanding of Pathology Images?

    Jul 30, 2026Zongyi Chen, Yu Liang, Jie Lin +1Computational PathologyMultimodal Benchmarks

  10. FiRE: Enhancing MLLMs with Fine-Grained Context Learning for Complex Image Retrieval

    Jul 30, 2026Bohan Hou, Haoqiang Lin, Xuemeng Song +4Multimodal RetrievalMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  11. MMOOC: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Out-of-Context Evaluation in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 30, 2026Wenjie Zhu, Yabin Zhang, Wenjun Zeng +1Multi-Modal Large Language Models

  12. Progressive Multimodal Alignment for Continual Instruction Tuning

    Jul 29, 2026Duzhen Zhang, Yahan Yu, Qiaoyi Su +2Multimodal Instruction TuningMultimodal Alignment

  13. Understanding Knowledge Transfer Mechanism in Heterogeneous MLLM Fusion: A Simple Linear Approach

    Jul 29, 2026Yinghao Hou, Jiahe Fan, Yuanhao Pu +2Cross-Task Knowledge TransferMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  14. FAS-R1: A Unified Multi-Task MLLM for Reasoning Face Anti-Spoofing

    Jul 29, 2026Hongyang Wang, Yichen Shi, Hongrui Li +3Spoofed SpeechAuthenticity

  15. SepPrune:A Separator-based Pruning Framework for Efficient Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 28, 2026Yuchen Wang, Qihui Zhu, Yang Liu +2Visual Token PruningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  16. FORGE: Frame Orthogonality in Relevance Geometry for Long-Form Video Understanding

    Jul 28, 2026Ghazal Kaviani, Ghassan AlRegibMulti-Modal Large Language ModelsVideos

  17. LENS: Adaptive Spatio-Temporal Zooming for Keyframe Sampling in Long-Form Videos

    Jul 27, 2026Ce Zhang, Jinxi He, Katia Sycara +1Keyframe SelectionMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  18. Evolving Safety Landscape of Multi-modal Large Language Models: A Survey of Emerging Threats and Safeguards

    Jul 27, 2026Xi Li, Shu Zhao, Xiaohan Zou +6Large Language Model SafetyMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  19. Disentangling Semantic Attention from Structural Bias in the Attention Manifold

    Jul 27, 2026Pengkun Jiao, Bin Zhu, Jingjing Chen +1Cross-Modal AttentionMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  20. Omni-Prune: Query-Aware Unified Token Pruning for Efficient Omnimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 26, 2026Yiming Zhong, Chang Nie, Caifeng ShanVisual Token PruningAudio-Visual Reasoning

  21. OmniScope: Modality-Decoupled Token Compression for Omnimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 25, 2026Jinsen Su, Yongdong Luo, Yuexiao Ma +3Token CompressionModality-Specific Encoders

  22. Structured Redundancy Modeling for Efficient Visual Token Pruning in High-Resolution MLLMs

    Jul 25, 2026Jouwon Song, Woohyeong Kim, Kyeongbo KongVisual Token PruningPruning

  23. RadSight: Towards Perceptually Reliable Multimodal Radiology Image Understanding

    Jul 24, 2026Jianqin Liu, Weiwei Cao, Wanxing Chang +7Medical ImagingMultimodal Clinical Data

  24. Filling Before Advancing: Capability-Gap-Driven Post-Training for Scenario-Specialized Remote Sensing MLLMs

    Jul 24, 2026Yuheng Zong, Minghua Wang, Xin Zhao +3Remote SensingMultimodal Pretraining

  25. Benchmarking Fine-tuning and Retrieval Strategies for a Multimodal Language Model on the NRC Reactor Operator Licensing Examination

    Jul 24, 2026Isak Hwang, Yoon Pyo LeeNuclear FusionMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  26. Zero-Shot Mission-Level Evaluation for Aerial MLLM Agents

    Jul 24, 2026Suman Navaratnarajah, Taehyoung Kim, Jona Ruthardt +5Embodied AgentsAgentic Benchmarks

  27. Unlearning Under Imbalance: Benchmarking Fairness in Multimodal LLM Unlearning

    Jul 23, 2026Lorenzo Orsingher, Thomas De Min, Massimiliano Mancini +2Large Language Model UnlearningLarge Language Model Bias

  28. HalluScope: Fine-grained Hallucination Diagnosis for Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 23, 2026Weilin Jin, Mingyu Wang, Wenbo Li +5HallucinationsMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  29. ViSTR-Bench: Can MLLMs Reason from Continuous Visual Cues in Dynamic Scenes?

    Jul 23, 2026Han Li, Si Liu, Zehao Huang +6Multi-Modal Large Language Models

  30. Enhancing Explainable Cardiac Diagnosis with Guide-Grounded Multimodal LLMs

    Jul 23, 2026Hai-Nam Duy Vuong, Duy-Anh Bui, Trong-Nghia Nguyen +5Electrocardiogram ClassificationPediatric-Adult Electrocardiogram Alignment

  31. ENTRAP-VL: A Taxonomic Probe for Dual Contextual Entrainment in Vision-Language Models

    Jul 22, 2026Karan Goyal, Afreen Hossain, Debojyoti Das +1Visual ContextMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  32. MV-Bench: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Coordinated Multi-View Interface Construction

    Jul 22, 2026Yue Zhao, Hongxu Liu, Feiyu Wang +5Multi-Modal Large Language ModelsMultimodal Learning

  33. OmniReasoner: Thinking with Long Audio-Video via Native Tool Use

    Jul 21, 2026Yu Chen, Caorui Li, Ziyu Xiong +8Audio-Visual ReasoningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  34. HAS: Highlight-guided Attention Steering for Multimodal LLM Video Summarization

    Jul 20, 2026Rui Chu, Yingjie LaoVideo UnderstandingSummarization

  35. VecFontLLM: Anchor-Guided Direct Synthesis of Chinese Vector Fonts

    Jul 19, 2026Hao Yuan, Yuxuan Luo, Xing Chen +1Typography GenerationAutomated Synthesis Techniques

  36. Constraint-Anchored Reasoning Traces

    Jul 18, 2026Zehua Cheng, Wei Dai, Jiahao SunLarge Language Model ReasoningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  37. Think, Plan, Paint: Layout-Aware Reasoning for Controllable Image Generation in Unified Models

    Jul 17, 2026Junhao Liu, Jian-Wei Zhang, Tao Huang +3Image GenerationMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  38. Efficient Frame Selection for Long Videos at Test Time with Attention-Based MLLM Selectors

    Jul 17, 2026Yilin Wang, Xiangxi Zheng, Dongxing Mao +6VideosMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  39. SLAPBench: Benchmarking Multimodal Large Language Models for Four-Finger SLAP Fingerprint Verification

    Jul 17, 2026Bibesh Pyakurel, M. G. Sarwar MurshedFingerprintVerification-Triggered Multimodal

  40. Contextualized Evaluation of Vision Language Models through Dynamic, Multi-turn Interactions

    Jul 16, 2026Yijiang Li, Huiqi Zou, Bingyang Wang +1Large Language Model EvaluationMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  41. Groc-PO: Grounded Context Preference Optimization for Truthful Multimodal LLMs

    Jul 15, 2026Zhixiao Zheng, Zheren Fu, Zhiyuan Yao +3Multi-Modal Large Language ModelsDirect Preference Optimization

  42. Open-KNEAD: Knowledge-grounded Nutrition Estimation via Agentic Decomposition

    Jul 14, 2026Bruce Coburn, Jingbo Yue, Jinge Ma +3Nutrient ReasoningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  43. Do We Really Need Multimodal Emotion Language Models Larger Than 1B Parameters?

    Jul 14, 2026Kaiwen Zheng, Junchen Fu, Wenhao Deng +3Multi-Modal Large Language ModelsEmotion Recognition

  44. Continual Learning with Elastic Regularization and Synthetic Replay for Federated MLLM Fine-Tuning

    Jul 13, 2026Jing Liu, Chenxuanyin Zou, Jiayang Ren +5Federated LearningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  45. Read It Back: Pretrained MLLMs Are Zero-Shot Reward Models for Text-to-Image Generation

    Jul 13, 2026Runhui Huang, Qihui Zhang, Zhe Liu +3Text-To-ImageShared Rewards

  46. Lesioned Multimodal Language Models Reproduce Aphasic Picture-Naming Patterns

    Jul 13, 2026Yong Yang, Xiang Guan, Sophie Arheix-Parras +7Dysarthric SpeechLinguistics

  47. From Direction to Magnitude: How Multimodal Instruction-Tuning Reorganizes the Geometric Encoding of Identity-Specifying Prompts in Transformer Hidden States

    Jul 10, 2026Jorge A. Castillo, Marco Torres Yévenes, Juan Carlos LanasInstruction-Tuned ModelsMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  48. Mixture of Probes: Learning from Privileged Modalities in Multimodal LLMs Through Probing

    Jul 9, 2026Dominick Reilly, Qiyu Wu, Hiromi Wakaki +2Multi-Modal Large Language ModelsCross-Modal Learning

  49. GReFEM: Multimodal LLMs as Zero-Shot Semantic Assistants for Physics-Guided 3D Mesh Refinement

    Jul 8, 2026Kartik Bali, Mahish K. Guru, Christian J Cyron +1Finite Element MethodMeshes

  50. Tree-of-Thoughts Reasoning for Text-to-Image In-Context Learning

    Jul 8, 2026Stepanida Alekseeva, Jenifer Kalafatovich, Seong-Whan LeeText-To-ImageIn-Context Learning

  51. GemNav: Discrete-Token Visual Robot Navigation using a Multimodal Large Language Model

    Jul 8, 2026Peter Bohm, Saimunur Rahman, Abdelwahed Khamis +3Vision-Language NavigationSocial Robot Navigation

  52. Do You Remember? Toward Memory-Centric Multimodal AI

    Jul 7, 2026Xuguang Yu, Weigang Zheng, Minyue YuMulti-Modal Large Language ModelsMultimodal Artificial Intelligence

  53. POPS: Recovering Unlearned Multi-Modality Knowledge in MLLMs with Prompt-Optimized Parameter Shaking

    Jul 7, 2026Zhangheng LI, Jianing Zhu, Junyuan Hong +4Large Language Model UnlearningMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  54. HoloCount: A Holistic Visual Counting Benchmark for MLLMs

    Jul 7, 2026Jinhong Deng, Limeng Qiao, Guanglu WanMulti-Modal Large Language ModelsCounting

  55. Segmentation before Answering: Pixel Grounding for MLLM Visual Reasoning

    Jul 7, 2026Yake Wei, Yuan Wang, Fengyun Rao +2Multi-Modal Large Language ModelsPixels

  56. Seeing Once is Enough? Online Geometry-Aware Token Pruning for 3D Question Answering

    Jul 5, 2026Ruei-Chi Lai, Bolivar Solarte, Chin-Hsuan Wu +23D Scene UnderstandingMulti-Modal Large Language Models

  57. Attending to Multimodal Generation One Token at a Time

    Jul 4, 2026Varun Gupta, Vineet Gandhi, Makarand TapaswiMulti-Modal Large Language ModelsMultimodal Generation

  58. From Geometric Labels to Semantic Understanding of Indoor Building Components Using Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 4, 2026Shuju Jing, Chao YinMulti-Modal Large Language ModelsMllm-Based

  59. OpenGlass: A Sensing-Computing Split Architecture for Local MLLM-Driven Real-Time Visual Assistance

    Jul 3, 2026Mengzhang Li, Yuan YaoMulti-Modal Large Language ModelsMllm-Based

  60. InduceKV: Fixed-Footprint Continual Adaptation of Multimodal LLMs via Inducing KV Memories

    Jul 2, 2026Qianyu Chen, Ziteng Feng, Canran Xiao +1Multimodal Instruction TuningMulti-Modal Large Language Models