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  1. PhysCount: Do MLLMs Count Visual Appearances or Physical Entities?

    PhysCount is a benchmark of 546 real-world images and 4,595 human-written questions in 651 target-specific groups. It tests whether multimodal LLMs can separate visible appearances (direct view, reflections, glass) from the physical entities behind them. Across 40 MLLMs, counting appearances is much easier than linking them to entities, and the best model answers every question correctly in only 13.36% of groups.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  2. Agentic LLM reasoning in pediatric diabetes outcome prediction from multimodal medical records

    CEDAR (Clinical Evidence-Driven Agent for Risk-prediction) is an evidence-citing, self-auditing LLM pipeline for predicting pediatric diabetes outcomes at 24 months from 18 months of records. On 2,489 youth with type 2 diabetes and 4,018 with type 1, pooled AUROC was 0.815 versus 0.656 to 0.700 for trained ML in T2D, and 0.756 versus 0.603 to 0.631 in T1D. Only 4 of 70,246 cited values mismatched the chart. Two pediatric endocrinologists matched its predictions in about nine of ten cases.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  3. Benchmarking color judgment in multimodal LLMs with CIE-computable ground truth

    A five-task benchmark tests multimodal LLM color judgment against CIE colorimetric ground truth: AWB pair judgment, skin-tone bias direction, CCT estimation, Delta E 2000 pair ordering, and color naming under changing illuminants. Eight endpoints were tested. On ColorChecker-24 stimuli, closed frontier models reach CCT MAE of 715-1056 K versus 1358-2133 K for open-weight models, and a non-ColorChecker control shows this gap is partly template-dependent.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 31 Oct 2026, published 29 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  4. Complementing Text Based Moderation with Multimodal Grounding: Detecting Fraudulent Inducement Behaviors on Short Video Platforms

    The paper studies detection and temporal localization of fraudulent inducements (prompts to follow, join chat groups, click links) in internet finance short videos. It compares OCR+LLM, OCR+MLLM and a zero-shot MLLM, and builds a dataset of 2,419 videos (66.49 hours, 3,194 events, four categories). OCR+MLLM reaches mIoU 26.52 versus 14.49 for keyframe OCR+LLM, with 67.0 percent macro recall, using a recall-weighted F2 localization reward.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 30 Oct 2026, published 28 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  5. VideoLVR: Latent Visual Reasoning over Grounded Video Evidence

    VideoLVR is a method that lets video multimodal LLMs build latent visual evidence from local regions at relevant moments and reason over it interleaved with text tokens. A visual token prediction objective, defined over a vocabulary derived from the input video, supervises the latents. It extends to reinforcement learning with sampled visual tokens as actions and final-answer rewards, and improves fine-grained video benchmarks without much context growth.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  6. As the Story Unfolds: Watching a Film and Identifying Characters as a Human Does

    This paper defines a character naming task for films: given a name spoken in dialogue and its video context, the model must pick which visible character bears that name. It provides a dataset with annotations for character naming and first appearances, a video-and-dialogue model, and a comparison with proprietary multimodal LLMs. It also proposes a progressive framework that builds a character bank as the film plays, without cast lists or actor photographs.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  7. When Visual Evidence Is Insufficient: How Instructions, Post-Training, and Internal Activations Shape Refusal in Multimodal Language Models

    This paper studies how multimodal LLMs refuse questions that an image cannot answer, using the MoHoBench benchmark on three MLLMs. It varies the meaning and placement of refusal instructions, compares supervised and preference-based post-training, and intervenes on a refusal-related activation direction. Instructions change refusal at the sample level in ways aggregate rates hide. Post-training raises refusal most but can mix refusal with attempted answers. Activation intervention gives smaller, transferable changes.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 28 Oct 2026, published 27 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  8. Agentic AI Defense: Decode-Time Provenance Binding for MCP

    Decode-time provenance binding is a defense for Model Context Protocol agent pipelines against cross-modal trust laundering, where instructions hidden in an email-signature image via LSB, DCT or metadata steganography get decoded by a tool. It combines HMAC-authenticated trust labels, a provenance ledger and context-taint tracking to block critical tool calls. On a real MCP testbed with 24 adaptive payloads, attack success fell from 100% undefended (62.5% for keyword and regex filters) to 0%.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 26 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  9. Rethinking Sequence Compression with Test-time Regression

    TTR-Compressor is a sequence compression method that treats input tokens as a test-time regression problem. The regression is learned end-to-end by backpropagation, and its coefficients are solved in closed form in the forward pass to give the compressed representation. As a block-wise sparse attention compressor it improves RULER over attention-based compressors by a large margin. As a visual token merger for multimodal LLMs it beats the MLP merger and matches it with 55.6% fewer visual tokens.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  10. CellTrack-Bench: Microscopic Cell Tracking Benchmark for Vision-Language Models

    CellTrack-Bench is a benchmark that tests vision-language models on microscopic cell tracking and compares them with specialised trackers. It has 1,537 problems covering 9,041 cell-linking decisions, drawn from 15 cell-tracking datasets across four imaging modalities, with a hard subset built from failures shared by distinct algorithmic trackers. The authors compare environment harnesses, benchmark 9 closed-source and 13 open-weight models, and analyse failure modes.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  11. Drift Says When, Budget Says How Much: Rate-Controlled KV Re-selection for Long-Form Multimodal Generation

    Rate-Controlled Refresh (RCR) is a KV cache re-selection method for multimodal LLMs in long-form generation. Attention drift decides when and where to re-select visual tokens, and a per-sample controller sets how often. RCR beats InfiniGen by 1.6-3.8 ROUGE-L points on five of six model-task settings and stays within 1.7 points of exact per-step re-selection. On video description, where drift is homogeneous, it no longer beats a fixed threshold.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  12. TRIAD: Benchmarking Omni-Modal Ambiguity in Multimodal Large Language Models

    TRIAD is a benchmark for omni-modal ambiguity resolution. It has 327 hand-written text-image-audio queries in 86 scene groups across 18 ambiguity categories, and removing any one modality makes the answer non-unique. Across 14 omni-modal systems, the best model trails humans by over 20 points in group accuracy. Without answer options, model group accuracy falls to single digits, and leave-one-out tests show audio cues are often underused.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 23 Oct 2026, published 22 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  13. Matrix-Game 4.0: Harnessing Video Models for Real-Time Playable Game Worlds

    Matrix-Game 4.0 is a system that separates game logic from visual rendering for playable generated worlds. A lightweight engine holds world state and rules, a multimodal coding agent writes game code and scene captions, and a distilled autoregressive video model turns low-poly proxies into detailed frames. It runs 480p at 60 FPS on one RTX 5090 with 112 ms key-press-to-display latency. Code, weights and assets are released.

    huggingface.copaperAdded 22 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  14. MPIDetector: Detecting Multi-modal Prompt Injection via LLM-based Reasoning

    MPIDetector is a detection framework for multi-modal prompt injection that uses few-shot in-context learning so an LLM can reason about the semantic intent of text and image inputs, without fine-tuning. The authors built a benchmark of eight textual and seven visual attack categories plus benign sets. They report up to 90.91% accuracy on text, 99.28% on images, and up to 99.80% detection on 500 obfuscated WebInject web-agent injections, beating baselines.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 24 Oct 2026, published 21 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  15. UniWALM: Unified World Action Language Model for Embodied Robot Control

    UniWALM is a unified world-action-language model that learns video, action and language in one mixture-of-transformers backbone with per-modality diffusion heads that co-denoise together. Generated subtask and textual memory are fed back on the next step, so no external planner or memory bank is needed. It adds Flow Matching with Correction (FMC) for recovery from perturbed actions. It reaches 34.5% on the memory-dependent RMBench subset, above Mem-0's 28.5%, and lifts real-world Find-the-Item success from 11.1% to 61.1%.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  16. InterWebCoder: Learning Interactive Webpage Generation from Executable Tests via Reinforcement Learning

    InterWebCoder is a framework for interactive webpage code generation by multimodal LLMs. It synthesizes self-contained webpages with executable test scripts from recorded interaction trajectories, repairs failures using runtime evidence, then trains with test-ID-weighted SFT and GRPO using test pass rates and visual similarity as rewards. The pipeline yields 1,736 verified samples from 2,058 tasks. A 9B model scores 48.54 on IWR-Bench and 48.42 on Vision2Web, and reward latency drops over 97%.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  17. Code2Video-Compass: A Comprehensive Benchmark for General-Purpose Code-Based Video Generation across T2V, I2V, and V2V

    Code2Video-Compass is a benchmark of 2,104 tasks for code-based video generation, where multimodal LLMs write executable programs that produce complete videos from text (T2V), image (I2V) or video (V2V) inputs. Tasks span 10 categories and 24 subtypes. Scoring uses 12 objective metrics and five MLLM-judge metrics. Across 15 proprietary and open-weight models from nine families, performance falls as construction, dynamic animation and state-dependency complexity rise.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  18. A Multimodal Engineering GraphRAG Framework for Post-Wind-Event Building Assessment and Recovery Inference

    This paper presents a multimodal engineering GraphRAG framework that links post-wind-event damage evidence from images and reconnaissance reports to building-condition states, recovery actions and downtime. Evidence is stored as a provenance-preserving, component-level representation, and graph-aligned retrieval uses compatibility, contradiction, evidence-precedence and abstention checks. Demonstrated on tornado-affected low-rise homes, it beats BaselineRAG and Structured Baseline RAG, and ablations test each component.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 22 Oct 2026, published 20 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  19. OpenVLHarness: Real World Visual Agentic Tool-Use with Multimodal Memory

    OpenVLHarness is a multimodal reasoning harness for MLLMs built on a capability layer (task-level tool interfaces plus evidence rendering) and persistent multimodal memory that stores images, structured data and web references as addressable artifacts. A coding interface runs generated programs over stored data. Across 22 benchmarks and eight backbones it adds 9.7-12.6 points over no-tool baselines, and GPT-6 Luna at medium effort beats Codex and Visual Sketchpad at maximum effort using at most 37% of their tokens.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  20. Scaling Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Brain Encoding

    BrainLoRA is a parameter-efficient fine-tuning method that adapts multimodal backbones of up to 104B parameters to predict neural responses. It predicts multiple timepoints in one causal pass instead of sliding windows, and a multi-LoRA kernel trains many adapters on a shared backbone. Across nine backbones it improves encoding, and a 200+ model ensemble ranks first on the Algonauts post-challenge leaderboard.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 21 Oct 2026, published 19 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  21. Enhancing RAG-based Medical VQA with Gated Multimodal Representations

    This paper presents a multimodal retrieval-augmented generation framework for Medical Visual Question Answering. A Gated Multimodal Unit learns a joint query representation from the medical image and the clinical question, so evidence retrieval uses both modalities while the Med-LVLM stays frozen. On benchmark datasets it consistently beats a reference Med-LVLM and stays competitive with state-of-the-art methods. The page gives no dataset names or numbers.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 16 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  22. MobileInject: Evaluating Reasoning-to-Action Security of MLLM-Based Mobile Agents under Cross-Modal Consistency Injection

    MobileInject is a benchmark for testing MLLM-based smartphone agents against indirect multimodal injection. It has an interactive evaluation framework with 11 scenarios, 9 security-risk categories and 108 executable risk instances. It adds Cross-Modal Consistency Injection, Multi-Role Collaborative Deception, Reasoning-Camouflage Injection and a Reasoning Security Diagnosis Framework. Experiments find broad vulnerability, with many failures from early reasoning hijacking.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 16 Oct 2026πŸ›‘οΈ Security

  23. MUB: An Identity-Masked Benchmark for Music Understanding in Multimodal Language Models

    MUB (Music Understanding Benchmark) is a set of 500 identity-masked recordings with existing annotations for tempo, key, time signature and structural intervals. It covers all 24 keys, tempos of 47 to 180 BPM and 4,676 intervals, and strips titles, artists and platform IDs from inputs. Baselines reach 53.6% tempo accuracy (DSP) and 98.4% time-signature accuracy (constant 4/4). No multimodal LLM has been tested yet, and rights clearance is unresolved.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 20 Oct 2026, published 16 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  24. Perceive, Predict, and Plan: a Unified World Action Model for Egocentric Dexterous Manipulation

    P^3-WAM is a unified world action model for egocentric dexterous manipulation with three modes: Perceive (reconstruct articulated hand motion and camera trajectories from video), Predict (generate visual futures under prescribed actions) and Plan (jointly generate action trajectories and their anticipated visual outcomes from an initial image, a language instruction and an optional visual goal). It adds a compact structured 3D action representation to a pretrained video diffusion transformer through a mixture-of-transformers design with shared base weights, modality-specific adaptation and bidirectional visual-action attention. Randomized modality visibility lets video and 3D actions act as either context or target. Unified training beats single-mode training and outperforms specialized baselines on 3D hand reconstruction and action-conditioned video prediction across four datasets, and gives better instruction adherence than video-generation baselines.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 17 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  25. Skill-Decoupled On-Policy Expert Distillation for Unified Vision-Language Models

    Proposes SCOPED (Skill-Decoupled On-Policy Expert Distillation), which trains capability-specific RL experts for vision-language models. It extracts explicit skills from them through reward-guided reflection. During on-policy distillation the skills guide expert supervision but are hidden from the unified student, so the student internalizes the procedural knowledge and needs no explicit skills at inference. Across eight multimodal benchmarks it beats the backbone and mixed-capability RL. Analyses show cross-capability gradient interference in joint RL, and that skill augmentation gives more consistent expert trajectories, more attention to task-relevant visual evidence, and better preservation of expertise.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 17 Oct 2026, published 15 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  26. Visual Tokens on Demand: Visual Budgeting for Scalable and Efficient Multi-Image Reasoning in Multimodal LLMs

    Proposes mmVB, a lightweight plug-and-play module (1.6M trainable parameters) that assigns query-conditioned per-image visual token budgets using cross-image context for multimodal LLMs, without retraining the base model or accessing attention matrices (so it is compatible with FlashAttention). It cuts visual input tokens 9x, giving 5x faster time-to-first-token and 7x fewer prefill FLOPs while keeping 94.4% of full-resolution accuracy across eight multi-image reasoning benchmarks. It matters because existing token pruning, merging and compression methods target single-image redundancy and either need attention maps or retraining.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 14 Oct 2026, published 13 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  27. OmniCompass: A Holistic Benchmark for Omni-Modal Video Grounding and Understanding

    OmniCompass is a manually annotated benchmark for video grounding and understanding with two tracks: OmniCompass-VL (820 videos, 2,460 instances; vision-language models) and OmniCompass-AV (240 videos, 720 instances; joint audio-visual evidence for omni-modal models). Each track covers temporal grounding, spatial grounding and QA across short/medium/long videos, and each instance is run in paired text-only and text+image target specifications. Evaluating 50 MLLMs shows open-source models lag proprietary ones, especially on audio-visual understanding, that precise temporal/spatial grounding remains hard, and that predictions are inconsistent across the paired specifications.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 14 Oct 2026, published 13 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  28. Heading Hierarchy Reconstruction for Complex and Long Documents with Level-Wise Multimodal Memory

    Proposes a vision-language-model framework that incrementally reconstructs heading hierarchies across tens or hundreds of pages using a level-wise multimodal memory. The memory keeps a compact set of earlier pages chosen by anchors (here, the most recent node at each heading level), so the VLM sees the visual, textual and layout patterns of headings at every level. The authors also introduce CLDoc-HHRBench (250 documents, 11,212 pages, expert-verified annotations) and report results on it and three existing benchmarks. It matters for RAG pipelines that need coherent document-level structure, which page-by-page OCR/VLM parsing doesn't give.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 14 Oct 2026, published 13 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  29. MiMo-V2.6: Scaling Reinforcement Learning Towards Self-Improvement

    Technical report for Xiaomi's MiMo-V2.6 omni-modal model family, which scales RL compute along three axes: asynchronous training with 1,568 samples and 2.7-3.7B tokens per step at up to 1M context, more diverse environments (code, general, visual, cyber) under mixed agent harnesses, and groupwise agentic grading that gives better reward signals and favors shorter, token-efficient solutions. Stability measures include a frozen MoE router and a multi-layer defense against reward hacking, built on a mid-trained hybrid-SWA architecture. The authors open-source training dynamics, RL environments and the RL framework, which makes it a useful reference for reproducing scaled agentic RL.

    huggingface.copaperAdded 10 Oct 2026🧠 AI

  30. Images Talk Back: Guiding MMDiTs by Suppressing Image-to-Text Feedback

    The paper studies joint attention in multimodal diffusion transformers (MMDiTs), where the evolving image updates text representations. It finds that this image-to-text (I2T) feedback tends to preserve objects and attributes already in the image, errors included, and that suppressing it improves generation. It proposes Semantic Feedback Guidance (SFG), which guides away from an auxiliary branch that strengthens I2T feedback and weakens text-to-image conditioning, and iSFG, an in-place variant that needs no extra model evaluations. SFG runs for the first 20% of sampling steps (about 1.2x base NFE without CFG). Across three backbones, adding SFG to CFG on FLUX raises GenEval from 0.6661 to 0.7479, and iSFG on SD3.5M adds +1.33 HPSv2.1 over CFG at zero extra NFE. The control also improves VBench scores for text-to-video and image-to-video.

    arxiv.orgpaperAdded 12 Oct 2026, published 9 Oct 2026🧠 AI

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