Molmo VLMs trained on newly collected PixMo open datasets achieve state-of-the-art performance among open-weight models and surpass multiple proprietary VLMs including Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Pro.
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MMMU-Pro is a stricter multimodal benchmark that removes text-only solvable questions, augments options, and requires reading text from images, yielding substantially lower model scores of 16.8-26.9%.
PBS-VL trained on the new PBSInstr dataset outperforms general and pathology MLLMs on the PBSBench VQA tasks for hematopathology.
MultiMat shows multimodal large models plus constrained search produce higher-quality procedural material graphs than text-only baselines on a new production dataset.
InterChart is a new benchmark that reveals steep drops in VLM accuracy when moving from single-chart facts to integrative reasoning over 2-3 related charts, with better performance after decomposing complex charts.
Data curation alone raises VLM accuracy by more than 11 points on average across many benchmarks while cutting required training compute by up to 87 times.
DenTab provides 2,000 annotated dental table images and 2,208 questions to benchmark 16 systems on table structure recognition and VQA, revealing that strong layout recovery does not ensure reliable multi-step arithmetic, and proposes a Table Router Pipeline combining VLMs with rule-based execution.
Fine-R1 uses chain-of-thought supervised fine-tuning on a structured FGVR reasoning dataset plus triplet augmented policy optimization to outperform general MLLMs and CLIP models on seen and unseen fine-grained categories with 4-shot training.
SmolVLM-256M outperforms a 300-times larger model using under 1 GB GPU memory, while the 2.2B version matches state-of-the-art VLMs at half the memory cost.
InternVL 2.5 is the first open-source MLLM to surpass 70% on the MMMU benchmark via model, data, and test-time scaling, with a 3.7-point gain from chain-of-thought reasoning.
Newer LLM backbones in VLMs do not always improve performance; gains are task-dependent, with VQA models solving different questions due to better confidence calibration and stable representations.
NVILA improves on VILA with a scale-then-compress visual token strategy and full-lifecycle efficiency optimizations, matching or exceeding leading VLMs on image and video benchmarks while reducing training cost 1.9-5.1x and latencies 1.2-2.8x.
ZAYA1-VL-8B is a new MoE vision-language model with vision-specific LoRA adapters and bidirectional image attention that reports competitive performance against several 3B-4B models on image, reasoning, and counting benchmarks.
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Molmo and PixMo: Open Weights and Open Data for State-of-the-Art Vision-Language Models
Molmo VLMs trained on newly collected PixMo open datasets achieve state-of-the-art performance among open-weight models and surpass multiple proprietary VLMs including Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Gemini 1.5 Pro.
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MMMU-Pro: A More Robust Multi-discipline Multimodal Understanding Benchmark
MMMU-Pro is a stricter multimodal benchmark that removes text-only solvable questions, augments options, and requires reading text from images, yielding substantially lower model scores of 16.8-26.9%.
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PBSBench: A Multi-Level Vision-Language Framework and Benchmark for Hematopathology Whole Slide Image Interpretation
PBS-VL trained on the new PBSInstr dataset outperforms general and pathology MLLMs on the PBSBench VQA tasks for hematopathology.
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MultiMat: Multimodal Program Synthesis for Procedural Materials using Large Multimodal Models
MultiMat shows multimodal large models plus constrained search produce higher-quality procedural material graphs than text-only baselines on a new production dataset.
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InterChart: Benchmarking Visual Reasoning Across Decomposed and Distributed Chart Information
InterChart is a new benchmark that reveals steep drops in VLM accuracy when moving from single-chart facts to integrative reasoning over 2-3 related charts, with better performance after decomposing complex charts.
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20/20 Vision Language Models: A Prescription for Better VLMs through Data Curation Alone
Data curation alone raises VLM accuracy by more than 11 points on average across many benchmarks while cutting required training compute by up to 87 times.
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DenTab: A Dataset for Table Recognition and Visual QA on Real-World Dental Estimates
DenTab provides 2,000 annotated dental table images and 2,208 questions to benchmark 16 systems on table structure recognition and VQA, revealing that strong layout recovery does not ensure reliable multi-step arithmetic, and proposes a Table Router Pipeline combining VLMs with rule-based execution.
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Fine-R1: Make Multi-modal LLMs Excel in Fine-Grained Visual Recognition by Chain-of-Thought Reasoning
Fine-R1 uses chain-of-thought supervised fine-tuning on a structured FGVR reasoning dataset plus triplet augmented policy optimization to outperform general MLLMs and CLIP models on seen and unseen fine-grained categories with 4-shot training.
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SmolVLM: Redefining small and efficient multimodal models
SmolVLM-256M outperforms a 300-times larger model using under 1 GB GPU memory, while the 2.2B version matches state-of-the-art VLMs at half the memory cost.
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Expanding Performance Boundaries of Open-Source Multimodal Models with Model, Data, and Test-Time Scaling
InternVL 2.5 is the first open-source MLLM to surpass 70% on the MMMU benchmark via model, data, and test-time scaling, with a 3.7-point gain from chain-of-thought reasoning.
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Back to the Barn with LLAMAs: Evolving Pretrained LLM Backbones in Finetuning Vision Language Models
Newer LLM backbones in VLMs do not always improve performance; gains are task-dependent, with VQA models solving different questions due to better confidence calibration and stable representations.
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NVILA: Efficient Frontier Visual Language Models
NVILA improves on VILA with a scale-then-compress visual token strategy and full-lifecycle efficiency optimizations, matching or exceeding leading VLMs on image and video benchmarks while reducing training cost 1.9-5.1x and latencies 1.2-2.8x.
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ZAYA1-VL-8B Technical Report
ZAYA1-VL-8B is a new MoE vision-language model with vision-specific LoRA adapters and bidirectional image attention that reports competitive performance against several 3B-4B models on image, reasoning, and counting benchmarks.