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arxiv: 2606.19584 · v1 · pith:YDNTUVLVnew · submitted 2026-06-17 · 💻 cs.CV

Language-Instructed Vision Embeddings for Controllable and Generalizable Perception

Chengzhi Mao , Xudong Lin , Wen-Sheng Chu This is my paper

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keywords language-instructed visiondynamic embeddingsinference-time adaptationcontrollable perceptionvisual hallucinationsvision-language modelsgeneralizable representationstask-centric features
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Language instructions can steer a frozen vision encoder to produce task-specific embeddings at inference time without retraining.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

The paper introduces Language-Instructed Vision Embeddings (LIVE) as an alternative to static vision feature extractors. Instead of adapting large downstream models to fixed visual features, language is used to dynamically guide the vision encoder itself. This produces embeddings focused on the relevant aspects of an image for a given task or instruction. The approach aims to improve controllability, reduce hallucinations, and allow generalization to new tasks without task-specific training.

Core claim

LIVE uses language as high-level guidance injected into the vision encoder to generate task-centric embeddings at inference time. This removes the need for task-specific retraining of the encoder or downstream models while yielding more controllable and generalizable visual representations that reduce hallucinations and improve performance on visual question answering.

What carries the argument

Language-Instructed Vision Embeddings (LIVE), which dynamically conditions the vision encoder on language instructions to focus on contextually relevant visual features.

If this is right

  • The same encoder can handle multiple tasks by changing only the language instruction.
  • Visual hallucinations decrease by 34 points on MMVP compared to standard approaches.
  • Performance on visual question answering exceeds that of much larger vision-language models.
  • The encoder generalizes to instructions and tasks not seen during any training.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • Fewer task-specific models would need to be stored and deployed if one encoder adapts via instructions.
  • Instruction-driven visual perception could extend to robotics or interactive systems where tasks change frequently.
  • The method might combine with existing large language models to create more adaptive multimodal pipelines.

Load-bearing premise

A frozen vision encoder can be effectively steered by language instructions at inference time without any retraining or architectural modifications that would remove the reported gains.

What would settle it

Running the same vision encoder with and without language instructions on the MMVP hallucination benchmark or a VQA task and finding no improvement or generalization to unseen instructions would falsify the central claim.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2606.19584 by Chengzhi Mao, Wen-Sheng Chu, Xudong Lin.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: LIVE (Language-Instructed Vision Embedding). We show SoTA foundation model struggle to distinguish between textual content and objects within an image. LIVE enables user￾guided attention to specified aspects (e.g., “fruit” v.s. “text”), boosting control and prediction accuracy. MMVP (Tong et al., 2024), and surpasses LLM-based counterparts on GQA (Hudson & Manning, 2019) by 7 points with less than 10% of t… view at source ↗
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Figure 2. Figure 2: Instructive Vision Encoder Design. Prior vision-language models such as CLIP (Radford et al., 2021) and SigLIP (Zhai et al., 2023) adopt two-tower architecture with separate vision and text encoders. We reuse the text tower to encode the query, apply a projection layer, and inject it into the vision transformer alongside with the input image. Note that although the question and the answer are passed throug… view at source ↗
Figure 3
Figure 3. Figure 3: Triplet Training Data from LLM. We apply Gemini-2.0-Flash (Comanici et al., 2025) to automatically generate diversified, open-world triplet data containing image, query, and answer. This method moves beyond generic questions from existing image-text datasets, enabling more nuanced and sophisticated exploration of image-specific content. This formulation enables the vision encoder to focus on the aspects of… view at source ↗
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Figure 4. Figure 4: LIVE Reduces Visual Hallucinations (MMVP Benchmark Tong et al. (2024)). State￾of-the-art vision-only embeddings Zhai et al. (2023) (left column) encode the entire scene without query-specific guidance, making them prone to hallucination when fine-grained precise details are required. By modulating visual computation with the input text query (right column), our method selectively focuses on relevant inform… view at source ↗
Figure 5
Figure 5. Figure 5: LIVE’s Retrieval based on Language Instructions. Examples 1-5 show examples from ImageNet, Caltech, SUN, RefCOCO, and GQA, respectively. The instructions provided at inference time are unseen during training and highlighted in red. For both our method and the vision-only baseline SigLIP (Zhai et al., 2023), we show the top-5 retrieved text responses with bars indicating the predicted sigmoid probabilities.… view at source ↗
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Figure 6. Figure 6: Impact of triplet training data on LIVE’s accuracy. We train SigLIP v2 ViT-B-16 with four triplet datasets, Open Images, WebLI, CC3M, and ours. Ours achieves broader improvements across benchmarks. While Open Images showed no gain, WebLI increases OCR, and CC3M offered slight improvements on some tasks, our approach highlights the benefit of using LLMs to overcome traditional data limitations for training … view at source ↗
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Figure 7. Figure 7: Zero-Shot Language Instructions Steer Visual Attention. Unlike baseline encoders producing global attention (SigLIP, left), our LIVE uses instructions to focus dynamically. Prompting for ”text” highlights the ”iPod” label; prompting for ”fruit” highlights only the apple, ignoring the label. This demonstrates emergent, instruction-driven control over visual encoding. Training Groups SVD FVD FSD FSV FSVD Tes… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: Pseudo JAX code for language-steered vision embedding model. [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p017_8.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 9. Figure 9: Concise pseudo JAX code for ViT input processing with language queries. The [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p018_9.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 10. Figure 10: Comparison with existing methods. Note that B, C, E requires large language model based [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_10.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 11. Figure 11: Illustration for baselines compared with in our paper. We take the two tower architecture [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_11.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 12. Figure 12: Impact of Different Language Instructions for ImageNet classification task. The y-axis shows the ImageNet classification accuracy in %. The x-axis shows the language instructions for the vision encoder. By improving the query prompts, we can improve the downstream task accuracy by up to 20 points. OCR Accuracy ViT Model Baseline Ours SigLIP 2 ViT-SO-14 10.48 38.99 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p020_12.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: Second, we employed Gemini Flash 2.0 to assign each question within our expansive [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p021_13.png] view at source ↗
Figure 13
Figure 13. Figure 13: The Histogram of Query Categories Generated in our Language-Instructed ImageNet. We first use LLM to generate a taskonomy of visual queries. We then use LLM to label each instructions we generate to one of the categories. We show the counting plot. The data generated show a long tail distribution. MMVP only comes with text answers, no text queires. Yet since they are divided into 9 categories with answers… view at source ↗
Figure 14
Figure 14. Figure 14: Attention Visualizations of Our LIVE Encoder. Guided by language instructions, the ViT model learn to focus on relevant parts, effectively prioritizing information and ignoring distractions. This is achieved without any direct supervision on the region the model shall focus on, showing the active, selective capabilities can be automatically learned by our encoder. Examples are randomly draw from ImageNet … view at source ↗
read the original abstract

Vision foundation models are typically trained as static feature extractors, placing the burden of task adaptation onto large downstream models. We propose an alternative paradigm: instead of solely feeding visual features into language models, we use language itself to dynamically guide the vision encoder. Our method, Language-Instructed Vision Embeddings (LIVE), leverages language as high-level guidance to produce task-centric embeddings at inference time, removing the need for task-specific retraining. This enables the encoder to focus on contextually relevant aspects of the input, yielding more controllable and generalizable representations. Empirically, LIVE reduces visual hallucinations (+34 points on MMVP), surpasses vision-language models with orders of magnitude more parameters on visual question answering, and generalizes to unseen instructions and tasks -- offering a direct path toward adaptive, instruction-driven visual intelligence.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The paper proposes Language-Instructed Vision Embeddings (LIVE), which uses language instructions as high-level guidance to dynamically steer a vision encoder at inference time, producing task-centric embeddings without task-specific retraining or architectural modifications. This is claimed to yield more controllable and generalizable representations, with empirical support including a +34 point gain on MMVP for reduced visual hallucinations, outperformance versus much larger VLMs on visual question answering, and generalization to unseen instructions and tasks.

Significance. If the core technical claim holds—that language can steer a (presumably frozen) vision encoder at inference without hidden task-specific adaptation—the result would be significant for vision-language modeling, as it shifts adaptation burden from downstream models or retraining to inference-time conditioning. The reported gains on MMVP and VQA would be notable if supported by rigorous baselines and controls.

major comments (2)
  1. [Method] The central claim that language instructions steer the vision encoder without task-specific retraining or architectural changes is load-bearing for the entire contribution, yet the abstract supplies no description of the conditioning mechanism (cross-attention, adapters, prompt modulation, etc.). The full manuscript must provide this in the method section with explicit statements on which parameters (if any) are updated per task.
  2. [Experiments] Table reporting MMVP results: the +34 point improvement and comparisons to larger VLMs require error bars, exact baselines, and dataset splits to be credible; without these the generalization and outperformance claims cannot be evaluated.
minor comments (2)
  1. Clarify notation for how language embeddings are fused with visual features; inconsistent use of terms like 'guidance' vs. 'conditioning' across sections.
  2. Add missing references to prior work on language-conditioned vision encoders (e.g., prompt tuning or adapter-based methods) to properly situate the contribution.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for their constructive feedback. We address each major comment below.

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  1. Referee: [Method] The central claim that language instructions steer the vision encoder without task-specific retraining or architectural changes is load-bearing for the entire contribution, yet the abstract supplies no description of the conditioning mechanism (cross-attention, adapters, prompt modulation, etc.). The full manuscript must provide this in the method section with explicit statements on which parameters (if any) are updated per task.

    Authors: We agree the abstract omits mechanism details. Section 3 of the manuscript describes the conditioning via cross-attention layers that integrate language instructions into the frozen vision encoder at inference time only; no parameters are updated per task or at inference. We will revise the abstract to briefly note the cross-attention conditioning. revision: partial

  2. Referee: [Experiments] Table reporting MMVP results: the +34 point improvement and comparisons to larger VLMs require error bars, exact baselines, and dataset splits to be credible; without these the generalization and outperformance claims cannot be evaluated.

    Authors: We agree that error bars, exact baselines, and splits strengthen credibility. The manuscript reports standard MMVP splits and baselines; we will add error bars (std. dev. over runs) and explicit baseline details to the table and appendix in revision. revision: yes

Circularity Check

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No circularity; claims rest on empirical results with no derivation chain

full rationale

The paper introduces LIVE as a method to use language instructions for dynamically guiding a vision encoder at inference time without task-specific retraining. The provided abstract and context contain no equations, derivations, fitted parameters, or self-referential logic that could reduce a claimed result to its inputs by construction. No self-citations are invoked as load-bearing uniqueness theorems, no ansatzes are smuggled, and no predictions are presented as independent when they are statistically forced by fitting. The central claims are supported by reported benchmark improvements rather than any mathematical chain, making the paper self-contained against external benchmarks with no circular steps.

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