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• Multi-turn Conversational AI from Text to Multimodal Interaction: Data, Models, Evaluation, and Open Challenges — A comprehensive survey of multi-turn conversational AI finds that multimodal perception has advanced faster than contextual coherence — current systems across text, audio, and multimodal domains still fail on persistent memory, cross-turn grounding, and full-duplex interaction.
• Teach and Grow: An Agent-Centered Architecture for General Robot Learning — Teach-and-Grow Learning (TGL) proposes replacing costly robot policy retraining with a modular architecture where a multimodal agent converts demonstrations into reusable Skill Blocks, composes them for new scenes, and updates from experience. Attains state-of-the-art on LIBERO and introduces a scaling law hypothesis: future-task error should fall as a power law in accumulated reusable experience.
• COMIC: Reference-Aware Safety Gating for Multimodal Large Language Models — COMIC identifies a structural gap in multimodal LLM safety: most defenses moderate the prompt-image pair as a whole, but many jailbreaks only become harmful when the model binds a benign operation (summarize, translate) to a specific visual target. COMIC intercepts this at the grounded operation-target level, consistently improving robustness on localized jailbreak benchmarks without harming benign utility.
• Structural Plan-to-Model Conversion with Deterministic Geometry and Guarded Agentic Vision-Language Refinement — A new framework converts structural engineering framing plan PDFs into editable finite-element model drafts without task-specific detector training. A deterministic geometry stage handles scale estimation and five entity classes; a guarded agentic VLM layer proposes corrections within explicit bounds. On a 50-plan held-out benchmark: 92.2% column recall, 88.6% beam recall, 100% for walls and braces.
• Co-RL: Unsupervised Reasoning Emerges from Diverse Cohort in Multi-agent RL — Co-RL achieves 3–8.6% reasoning gains on LLM benchmarks and 2.3–7.2% on multimodal tasks without any ground-truth labels — by having multiple decoupled models reward each other during RL training, with cohort diversity preventing collapse.
• Learning What Not to Learn: Adversarial Disentangled Prompt Tuning for Robust Vision-Language Models — ADAPT fixes a generalization failure in adversarial prompt tuning for vision-language models: existing methods overfit to seen classes, collapsing on unseen ones. A dual-prompt mechanism with orthogonal constraints separates robust from pseudo-robust features.
• Where a New Concept Must Enter: Entry Point Gates Cross-Task Usability in Unified Multimodal Models — Research on unified multimodal models reveals that where a concept enters the model's computation governs cross-task usability — understanding training installs concepts that can be generated, but generation training cannot produce concepts for generation tasks. A mid-stack alignment objective acquires new visual concepts with 0.1% vs 41% capability degradation.
• BEAR-Bench: A Bilingual Enterprise and Academic Reasoning Benchmark for Multimodal Models — BEAR-Bench introduces 1,000 human-annotated questions on professional English and Russian business and scientific documents, exposing significant capability gaps even in top multimodal models like Gemini 3.1 Pro and Qwen3.5-397B on text-dense enterprise reasoning.
• From Corpora to Co-Evolving Capabilities: Capability-Centric Data Design for Generalist Image Generation — A 17-author team curates 440M T2I image pairs, 120M editing pairs, and 27M image-entity pairs through a capability-centric curriculum infrastructure, using it to train 3B and 6B multimodal diffusion models from scratch with co-evolving capability scheduling.
• DeAR: Decentralized Agentic Reasoning via Capability Grounding and Collaborative Thought Navigation — DeAR proposes replacing centralized multi-agent routing with peer-to-peer collaboration — three mechanisms (capability grounding, thought map navigation, topology update) outperform existing baselines across 9 multimodal reasoning benchmarks.