← Search

Sohail Dianat

10 accepted papers

2025

Latent Chain-of-Thought for Visual Reasoning

NeurIPS 2025poster

Chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning is critical for improving the interpretability and reliability of Large Vision-Language Models (LVLMs). However, existing training algorithms such as SFT, PPO, and GRPO may not generalize well across unseen reasoning tasks and heavily rely on a biased reward model. T…

Cited by 0Source ↗Scholar ↗
2025

MEPT: Mixture of Expert Prompt Tuning as a Manifold Mapper

EMNLP 2025

Considering deep neural networks as manifold mappers, the pretrain-then-fine-tune paradigm can be interpreted as a two-stage process: pretrain establishes a broad knowledge base, and fine-tune adjusts the model parameters to activate specific neural pathways to align with the target manifold. Althou

Cited by 0Source ↗PDF ↗Scholar ↗
2025

Re-Imagining Multimodal Instruction Tuning: A Representation View

ICLR 2025poster

Multimodal instruction tuning has proven to be an effective strategy for achieving zero-shot generalization by fine-tuning pre-trained Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) with instruction-following data. However, as the scale of LMMs continues to grow, fully fine-tuning these models has become highly par…

2025

Structured Policy Optimization: Enhance Large Vision-Language Model via Self-referenced Dialogue

ICCV 2025poster

Preference optimization algorithms typically enhance LLM response quality by leveraging human feedback on multiple answers given a fixed instruction. However, these methods often lack capturing the dynamic nature of conversational exchanges. For large vision-language models (LVLMs), direct preferenc…

Cited by 0Source ↗PDF ↗Scholar ↗
2025

Visual Self-Refinement for Autoregressive Models

EMNLP 2025

Autoregressive models excel in sequential modeling and have proven to be effective for vision-language data. However, the spatial nature of visual signals conflicts with the sequential dependencies of next-token prediction, leading to suboptimal results. This work proposes a plug-and-play refinement

Cited by 0Source ↗PDF ↗Scholar ↗
2025

X-CoT: Explainable Text-to-Video Retrieval via LLM-based Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

EMNLP 2025

Prevalent text-to-video retrieval systems mainly adopt embedding models for feature extraction and compute cosine similarities for ranking. However, this design presents two limitations. Low-quality text-video data pairs could compromise the retrieval, yet are hard to identify and examine. Cosine si

2024

Diffusion-Inspired Truncated Sampler for Text-Video Retrieval

NeurIPS 2024poster

Prevalent text-to-video retrieval methods represent multimodal text-video data in a joint embedding space, aiming at bridging the relevant text-video pairs and pulling away irrelevant ones. One main challenge in state-of-the-art retrieval methods lies in the modality gap, which stems from the substa…

Cited by 17Source ↗PDF ↗Scholar ↗
2024

Image Translation as Diffusion Visual Programmers

ICLR 2024poster

We introduce the novel Diffusion Visual Programmer (DVP), a neuro-symbolic image translation framework. Our proposed DVP seamlessly embeds a condition-flexible diffusion model within the GPT architecture, orchestrating a coherent sequence of visual programs ($i.e.$, computer vision models) for vario…

Cited by 25Source ↗PDF ↗Scholar ↗
2024

Prototypical Transformer As Unified Motion Learners

ICML 2024poster

In this work, we introduce the Prototypical Transformer (ProtoFormer), a general and unified framework that approaches various motion tasks from a prototype perspective. ProtoFormer seamlessly integrates prototype learning with Transformer by thoughtfully considering motion dynamics, introducing two…

Cited by 12Source ↗PDF ↗Scholar ↗
2024

Text Is MASS: Modeling as Stochastic Embedding for Text-Video Retrieval

CVPR 2024highlight

The increasing prevalence of video clips has sparked growing interest in text-video retrieval. Recent advances focus on establishing a joint embedding space for text and video relying on consistent embedding representations to compute similarity. However the text content in existing datasets is gene…

Cited by 84Source ↗PDF ↗Scholar ↗