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  1. NeuronEye: Query-Guided Visual Concept Activation for Vision-Language Reasoning

    Sep 29, 2026Ruiyu Yan, Bowen Chen, Shaowen Wan +1Recent Vision-Language ModelsVisual Representations

    New York University · New Jersey Institute of Technology

  2. Minkowski Attractor Networks: Closed-Form Hyperbolic Flows for Visual Representations

    Sep 29, 2026Zhongping JiHyperbolic LearningHyperbolic Space

  3. VIF-Bench: Evaluating Visual Instruction Following in Multi-Reference Image Generation

    Sep 29, 2026Yuta Oshima, Masakazu Yoshimura, Masahiro Suzuki +2Multi-Reference Image GenerationMultimodal Generation

    The University of Tokyo

  4. VLM Fine-Tuning for End-to-End Combinatorial Optimization

    Sep 29, 2026Qingsong Yan, Xia Jiang, Yaoxin Wu +3Combinatorial OptimizationVisual Representations

    College of Computer Science, Sichuan University · Department of Industrial Engineering&Innovation Sciences, Eindhoven University of Technology · Institute of Marine Science and Technology, Shandong University +1

  5. Where Predictive Supervision Goes Shapes What VLA Policies Learn

    Sep 29, 2026Hanseul Kim, Jewon Yeom, Youngjoon Jeong +2Generalizable Vision-Language-Action PoliciesAction Prediction

    Graduate School of Data Science Seoul National University

  6. W2Rep: Learning Visual Representations by Watching the World Change

    Sep 28, 2026Wen Huang, Hang Guo, Jiarui Yang +3Fine-Grained Video UnderstandingVision Encoders

    Tsinghua Shenzhen International Graduate School, Tsinghua University, Shenzhen, China · Nankai University, Tianjin, China · Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China

  7. Depth-Guided Contrastive Learning for 2D Representations with 3D Spatial Awareness

    Sep 23, 2026Liang Zeng, Maarten VergauwenContrastive Learning3D Spatial Reasoning

    KU Leuven Belgium

  8. When Explanations Cannot Be Read: Measuring and Correcting SHAP and LIME Rendering for Right-to-Left Languages

    Sep 23, 2026Rameesha Zia, Muhammad Shahid Iqbal MalikExplainable AI MethodsShapley Additive Explanations

    School of Computing Sciences, Pak-Austria Fachhochschule, Institute of Applied Sciences and Technology, Haripur 22620, Pakistan

  9. Visual Jev: Accurate and Efficient Decisions from Shared Visual Context

    Sep 22, 2026Guanxu Yu, Yuhang YaoVisual RepresentationsVista

    Independent Research · Carnegie Mellon University

  10. Object-Centric Conditioning for Visuomotor Flow Matching

    Sep 21, 2026Jijie Li, Xu Yang, Junhong Zou +4Flow-Matching Vision-Language-ActionRobotic Manipulation Policies

    School of Artificial Intelligence, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences · State Key Laboratory of Multimodal Artificial Intelligence Systems, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences · Foundation Model Research Center, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences +2

  11. Positive Pair Geometry Matters: Optimal Transport for Contrastive Learning of Visual Representations

    Sep 21, 2026Akshit Nanda, Shahzad Ahmad, Ram Prasad PadhyContrastive LearningData Augmentation

    Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bhubaneswar · Østfold University of Applied Sciences, NTNU

  12. Training-Adaptive Convolutional Sparse Coding via Information Bottleneck for Robust Visual Representation

    Sep 16, 2026Meng'en Qin, Yinchen Liu, Mingxuan Cui +1Information BottleneckSparsity

    Faculty of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology, Shenzhen, China · School of Mathematical Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China · School of Mathematics, Shandong University, Jinan, China

  13. SenseNova-U1.5: Towards Native Unified Visual Intelligence

    Sep 11, 2026Haiwen Diao, Jiahao Wang, Chenjing Ding +62Multimodal ModelVisual Representations

  14. Vision-language models know more about agriculture than they show and rubric-grounded verifications close the gap

    Sep 8, 2026Earl Ranario, Jared Smith, Lars Lundqvist +2Leaf Disease ClassificationPrecision Agriculture

    University of California, Davis

  15. An Ensemble-Based Self-Taught Learning Approach for Parking Space Classification Under Limited Data

    Sep 3, 2026Lucas de Oliveira Cunha, Joelton Deonei Gotz, Paulo Lisboa de Almeida +1Domain AdaptationAutoencoder Architectures

    Universidade Federal do Paraná, Department of Informatics, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil · Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, Graduate Program in Informatics (PPGIa), Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

  16. Position: Unlabeled IS NOT Equal to No Human Supervision in Visual Learning

    Sep 2, 2026Dong LaoUnlabeled DataUnsupervised

    Division of Computer Science and Engineering, Louisiana State University, Louisiana, USA.

  17. RingMoClaw: An Experience-Inspired Multi-Agent Framework for Self-Evolving Research in Remote Sensing

    Sep 1, 2026Kaiyue Kang, Qixuan He, Peijin Wang +9Remote SensingClaw-Like Agent

    Aerospace Information Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · School of Electronic, Electrical and Communication Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China · University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China +1

  18. Less Is More: Balancing Positive and Negative Space in Visual Concept Blending

    Aug 31, 2026Shishi Xiao, Adam J. Coscia, David H. LaidlawVisual RepresentationsInpainting

    Brown University · Providence, Rhode Island, USA · Georgia Institute of Technology +1

  19. SVI2LoD3: Agent-Driven Reconstruction of LoD3 Facade Openings in Semantic 3D City Models from Volunteered Street View Imagery using Large Language and Visual Models

    Aug 30, 2026Elmehdi Kanna, Lukas Arzoumanidis, Huynh Duc An Son Nguyen +1Semantic SegmentationVisual Representations

    Computational Methods Lab, HafenCity University, Hamburg, Germany

  20. ContextBias: Controlled Evaluation of Bias Persistence Under Context Shift in Text-to-Image Models

    Aug 30, 2026Shaghayegh Kolli, Sina Emami, Moreno D'Incà +4Modern Text-To-Image ModelsStereotype Mitigation

    1Technical University of Munich · 4Munich Center for Machine Learning (MCML) · 5Munich Data Science Institute (MDSI) +2

  21. Do Vision-Language Models Agree on the Affective Qualities of Shape? A Cross-Model Audit for Generative Design Interfaces

    Aug 26, 2026Luca Bux, Thiago Rios, Ingo Scholtes +2Visual RepresentationsShapes Constraint Language

    Honda Research Institute Europe GmbH Offenbach am Main, Germany · Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg Würzburg, Germany

  22. MapRoute++: Surrogate-Guided Semantic Routing for Visual Concept Unlearning

    Aug 13, 2026Ashok Urlana, L. D. M. S. Sai Teja, Vivek Hruday Kavuri +1Semantic MappingVisual Representations

    1IIIT Hyderabad · 2TCS Research, India · 3NIT Silchar

  23. Can Coding Agents Solve Repository-Level Issues with Rendered Code? An Exploratory Study of Visual Representations

    Aug 10, 2026Weijie Liang, Yuanfeng Song, Xing Chen +3Repository-Level Code UnderstandingCoding Agents

    The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, China · ByteDance, China

  24. Resolution Meets Reduction: Efficient Visual Context for 3D Radiology Report Generation

    Aug 9, 2026Jonathan Suprijadi, Raphael Stock, Moritz Langenberg +10Radiology Report GenerationCone-Beam Computed Tomography

    Division of Medical Image Computing, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), Heidelberg, Germany

  25. UniSpace: Unified Visual Representation and Scalable Multimodal Modeling

    Aug 9, 2026Jinbo Yan, Limeng Qiao, Jie Qin +3Vision EncodersSelf-Supervised Vision Transformers

    Meituan

  26. InstructionCrafter: Generating Consistent and High-Fidelity Visual Instructions

    Aug 9, 2026Shun Okamoto, Satoshi Iizuka, Kazuhiro FukuiVisual GenerationVideo Diffusion Models

    University of Tsukuba

  27. Three Necessary Principles for Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning

    Aug 8, 2026Nikos Giakoumoglou, Paschalis Giakoumoglou, Tania StathakiSelf-Supervised RepresentationsSelf-Supervised Learning

    Imperial College London · CERTH, ITI

  28. Learning visual representations for compositional analysis of artworks and photographs

    Aug 6, 2026Fatemeh Behrad, Tinne Tuytelaars, Johan WagemansVisual RepresentationsArt

    KU Leuven University Belgium

  29. Visual Representation Matters: Exploiting Temporal Differences in Video-to-Audio Generation

    Aug 5, 2026Zehua Chen, Junyou Wang, Yuxuan Jiang +5Audio-Video GenerationText-To-Video Diffusion Models

    Tsinghua University, Beijing, China · Hefei University of Technology, Hefei, China · Monash University, Australia +1

  30. RAGOCR: Optical Compression of Retrieval-Augmented Text via Visual Representation

    Aug 1, 2026Jiayang Yu, Jialun Zhong, Lei ZouKnowledge-Based Visual Question AnsweringLingdt-Vl-Ocr

    Wangxuan Institute of Computer Technology, Peking University Beijing, China

  31. Contrastive Concept Importance: Explaining Pairwise Class Decisions Through Automatically Extracted Concept Representations

    Jul 30, 2026Roel Visser, Isaac Roberts, Barbara HammerContrastive LearningExplainability

    Bielefeld University, Inspiration 1, 33619 Bielefeld, Germany

  32. LU-500: A Logo Benchmark for Concept Unlearning

    Jul 27, 2026Keyu Li, Jin Gao, Jialing Zhang +1Visual RepresentationsSuppression

    Shanghai Jiao Tong University Shanghai, China

  33. Robot Learning to Communicate through Projected Visual Abstractions

    Jul 24, 2026Danyang Yan, Boyuan Wang, Jiaxun Liu +1Robot SystemsMotion Imitation

    Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Duke University · Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University · Department of Computer Science, Duke University

  34. Self-Supervised Learning of Structured Dynamics from Videos

    Jul 23, 2026Lukas Knobel, Andrew Zisserman, Yuki M. AsanoSelf-Supervised LearningLatent Motion

    Fundamental AI Lab, UTN · VGG, University of Oxford

  35. Geo3R: Mitigating Spatial Reasoning Hallucination in Multimodal Large Language Models

    Jul 23, 2026Mingyu Wang, Weilin Jin, Wenbo Li +3Spatial ReasoningObject Hallucination

    Peking University Beijing, China · Joy Future Academy Beijing, China

  36. VizRAG: Enhancing Retrieval-Augmented Generation with Hypergraph Visualization

    Jul 22, 2026Yanbin Wei, Yang Chen, Renling Gan +7Graph-Based Retrieval Augmented GenerationKnowledge-Based Visual Question Answering

    1Southern University of Science and Technology · 2Hong Kong University of Science and Technology · 3Huawei Research +1

  37. Linguistic Context Recodes Visual Representations in Vision-Language Models

    Jul 21, 2026Brian Song, Michael A. Lepori, Ellie PavlickVisual RepresentationsCross-Modality

    Brown University

  38. Self-Supervised Visual Representation Learning: Pretrain-Finetuning or Joint Training?

    Jul 14, 2026Nusrat Munia, Tyler Ward, Nishat Nayla +2Self-Supervised LearningSelf-Supervised Representations

    Department of Computer Science University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506, USA · Kentucky Geological Survey University of Kentucky Lexington, KY 40506, USA

  39. ConceptSMILE: Auditing the Trustworthiness of Concept-Based Explainable AI

    Jul 10, 2026Mohadeseh Mollapour, Koorosh Aslansefat, Zeinab Dehghani +3Explainable Artificial IntelligenceTrustworthy Artificial Intelligence

    School of Computer Science University of Hull Hull, United Kingdom · PhD Researcher (Engineering), WMG University of Warwick Coventry, United Kingdom · School of Computing Newcastle University Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

  40. Multimodal Scenario Similarity Search for Autonomous Driving

    Jul 10, 2026Tamás Matuszka, András Tamásy, Balázs SzolárNaturalistic Driving DataAutonomous Driving

    aiMotive

  41. Dive Into the Implicit Biases of Low-rank Vision-language Alignment

    Jul 9, 2026Mingjia Shi, Shuo Wang, Xiaobo Wang +7Vision-Language AlignmentFeature Alignment

    Mininglamp · Shenzhen University of Advanced Technology · National University of Singapore

  42. Billions of Sketches Reveal Hidden Cultural Variation in Human Concepts

    Jul 8, 2026Arianna Pera, Mauro Martino, Nima Dehmamy +3Cross-Cultural VariationSketches

    IT University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark · MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA · Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA +1

  43. VisTCP: A Visualization Framework to Construct Knowledge-Graph-Based Representation for Traditional Chinese Painting

    Jul 7, 2026Zhiguang Zhou, Fengling Zheng, Miaoxin Hu +9Visual RepresentationsArt

    School of Media and Design, Hangzhou Dianzi University · School of Computer Science, Hangzhou Dianzi University · State Key Lab of CAD&CG, Zhejiang University +1

  44. VEIL: How Visual Encoding Hijacking Induces Bias In Vision Models

    Jul 6, 2026Suranjana Sooraj, Xuyang Chen, Madhumitha Venkatesan +1Visual AnalyticsVisual Representations

    University of California, Davis

  45. Show Me Examples: Inferring Visual Concepts from Image Sets

    Jul 2, 2026Nick Stracke, Kolja Bauer, Stefan Andreas Baumann +3Visual In-Context LearningVisual Representations

    Munich Center for Machine Learning · Apple

  46. Domain Generalization via Text-Anchored Information Bottleneck

    Jul 2, 2026Eunyi Lyou, Yunjeong Choi, Junho Lee +1Multimodal Domain GeneralizationDomain Invariance

    Seoul National University, Seoul, Republic of Korea

  47. Beyond Heatmaps: Unsupervised Concept-Graph Reasoning for Interpretable Visual Explanation

    Jul 1, 2026Md Mohasin Hossain, Anar Amirli, Robert Leist +2HeatmapGradient-Weighted Class Activation Mapping

    German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence · Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany · 1German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany +5

  48. Group-Equivariant Poincaré Convolutional Networks

    Jul 1, 2026Aiden Durrant, Rahul Baburajan, Georgios LeontidisRotation EquivarianceBatch Normalization

    School of Computing Sciences, University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ, Norwich, UK · Department of Physics and Technology, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, NO-9037, Tromsø, Norway

  49. Homer: Understanding Long-form Videos with Hierarchical Memory and Agentic Reasoning

    Jul 1, 2026Yixin Ji, Fanghua Ye, Juntao Li +5Multi-Hop ReasoningAgentic Reasoning

    1Soochow University · 2Tencent Hunyuan Multimodal Department

  50. Information-Regularized Attention for Visual-Centric Reasoning

    Jul 1, 2026Guohao Sun, Xiaofang Wang, Yash Patel +3Recent Vision-Language ModelsWeak Visual Grounding

    1FAIR at Meta, 2Rochester Institute of Technology · *Work done at Meta

  51. Making Sense of Touch from the Child's View for Contrastive Learning

    Jun 30, 2026Max Whitton, Zecheng Wang, Puchen Liu +12TactileDevelopmental Trajectories

    Boston University · University of Texas, Austin

  52. Bridging Video Understanding and Generation in a Unified Framework

    Jun 30, 2026Yuqi Wang, Runyi Li, Ruoyu Feng +3Video UnderstandingVisual Representations

    arXiv:2606.31326v1

  53. Ask, Solve, Generate: Self-Evolving Unified Multimodal Understanding and Generation via Self-Consistency Rewards

    Jun 25, 2026Ritesh Thawkar, Shravan Venkatraman, Omkar Thawakar +5Multimodal GenerationLarge Multimodal Models

    1Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence · 4Linköping University · 3Australian National University +1

  54. ReasonCLIP-58M: Visually Grounded Commonsense Reasoning Supervision for CLIP

    Jun 25, 2026Sicheng Zhang, Muzammal Naseer, Binzhu Xie +5Contrastive Language-Image Pre-Training ModelVisual Representations

    Khalifa University · University of Western Australia · The Chinese University of Hong Kong +2

  55. Meta-learning as a principle for human-like visual representations

    Jun 24, 2026Can Demircan, Marcel Binz, Alireza Modirshanechi +1Meta-LearningVisual Representations

    Helmholtz Munich, Munich, Germany · Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tübingen, Germany

  56. Structuring Sparsity: Block-Sparse Featurizers Capture Visual Concept Manifolds

    Jun 23, 2026Thomas Fel, Matthew Kowal, Mozes Jacobs +22Manifold PerspectiveSparsity

    •Goodfire · aHarvard University · bStanford University +1

  57. Latent Visual States for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning

    Jun 23, 2026Xiuwei Chen, Wentao Hu, Yongxin Wang +8Latent Visual ReasoningLarge Multimodal Models

    Sun Yat-sen University · The Hong Kong Polytechnic University · MBZUAI +2

  58. The Hidden Evolution of Disguised Visual Context inside the VLM

    Jun 18, 2026Wish Suharitdamrong, Tony Alex, Muhammad Awais +1Long Visual-Token SequencesVisual Representations

    Surrey Institute for People-Centred AI, University of Surrey, Guildford, GU2 7XH, UK · Centre for Vision, Speech and Signal Processing (CVSSP), University of Surrey, UK

  59. SketchXplain: Intuitive Visual Explanations of Image Classifiers with Sketches

    Jun 16, 2026Wencan Zhang, Mario Michelessa, Xuejun Zhao +1XaiSketches

    National University of Singapore

  60. Zero-Shot Semantic Re-Identification for Autonomous Driving: A VLM Baseline Study

    Jun 8, 2026Eduardo Borges, Manuel Abreu, Luís Garrote +1Re-IdentificationAutonomous Driving

    Institute of Systems and Robotics, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal