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%.
CGC improves fine-grained multi-image understanding in MLLMs by constructing contrastive training instances from existing single-image annotations and adding a rule-based spatial reward, achieving SOTA on MIG-Bench and VLM2-Bench with transfer gains to other multimodal tasks.
LLaVA-NeXT-Interleave unifies multi-image, video, and 3D capabilities in large multimodal models via a new 1.18M-sample interleaved dataset and benchmark, achieving leading results across those tasks while preserving single-image performance.
MuirBench is a new benchmark showing that top multimodal LLMs struggle with robust multi-image understanding, with GPT-4o at 68% and open-source models below 33% accuracy.
LoMo is a lightweight data curation technique that locally substitutes text with images in prompts to enforce cross-modal invariance, yielding 2.67-2.82 point gains over standard SFT on two VLMs across 13 benchmarks.
ROVER introduces a learnable routing plugin for object-centric visual evidence in MLLMs via token triplets and differential attention, reporting gains on MM-GCoT and VideoEspresso when integrated into Qwen2.5-VL-7B.
SpatialForge synthesizes 10 million spatial QA pairs from in-the-wild 2D images to train VLMs for better depth ordering, layout, and viewpoint-dependent reasoning.
MiniCPM-o 4.5 uses the Omni-Flow streaming framework to deliver real-time full-duplex omni-modal interaction with proactive behavior in a 9B model that approaches Gemini 2.5 Flash performance.
PulseFocus improves multi-image reasoning in VLMs by interleaving planning and attention-gated focus blocks during chain-of-thought, achieving gains on BLINK and MuirBench.
MiMo-Embodied is a single foundation model that achieves state-of-the-art results on 17 embodied AI benchmarks and 12 autonomous driving benchmarks through multi-stage learning, curated data, and CoT/RL fine-tuning that produces positive cross-domain transfer.
InternVL3.5 advances open-source multimodal models with Cascade RL for +16% reasoning gains and ViR for 4x inference speedup, with the 241B model reaching SOTA among open-source MLLMs on multimodal, reasoning, and agentic tasks.
InternVL3-78B sets a new open-source SOTA of 72.2 on MMMU via native joint multimodal pre-training, V2PE, MPO, and test-time scaling while remaining competitive with proprietary models.
A human preference dataset and VideoReward model enable Flow-DPO and Flow-NRG to produce smoother, better-aligned videos from text prompts in flow-based generators.
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.
CrossView Suite supplies a 1.6M-sample dataset, scene-disjoint benchmark, and explicit-alignment framework to advance MLLMs from single-view perception to cross-view spatial intelligence.
An 8B MLLM reaches state-of-the-art efficiency and performance under 30B by combining a unified 3D resampler, joint document-text training, and hybrid RL for reasoning modes.
mPLUG-Owl3 introduces hyper attention blocks to integrate vision and language for long image-sequence understanding and reports SOTA results on single-image, multi-image, and video benchmarks.
LLaVA-OneVision is the first single open LMM to simultaneously achieve strong performance in single-image, multi-image, and video scenarios with cross-scenario transfer capabilities.
DFLOP is a data-driven framework that profiles data-induced computation variance and uses predictive scheduling to balance workloads in multimodal LLM training pipelines, claiming up to 3.6x faster training than existing frameworks.
A pipeline of chain-of-thought data synthesis, LoRA-based supervised fine-tuning, rejection sampling, and rule-based reinforcement learning raises multi-image grounding accuracy by 9.04% on MIG-Bench and 4.41% on average across seven other benchmarks.
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MiniCPM-V 4.5: Cooking Efficient MLLMs via Architecture, Data, and Training Recipe
An 8B MLLM reaches state-of-the-art efficiency and performance under 30B by combining a unified 3D resampler, joint document-text training, and hybrid RL for reasoning modes.