Controllable Image Captioning with Prompt-Conditioned Scene Rewards

arXiv:2609.00709 · cs.CV, cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-01 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-01

Updated: 2026-09-01

Terminology

• GRPO — 29× in this paper · explained in 6 episodes
• Alignment — 22× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Benchmark — 21× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Ablation — 10× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Verification — 10× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• LLM judge — 7× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Verifier — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Robustness — 4× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Accuracy — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Adam — 3× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Aggregation — 3× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Consistency — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Fine-Tuning — 3× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Large Language Model — 3× in this paper
• Benchmarking — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition — 2× in this paper
• Embeddings — 2× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Foundation Model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Foundation Models — 2× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Grounding — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Semantic Alignment — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Semantic Drift — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Chain-of-Thought Prompting — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Instruction Tuning — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Interpretability — 1× in this paper · explained in 15 episodes
• Large Language Model (LLM) — 1× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Segmentation Masks — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) — 1× in this paper · explained in 8 episodes
• Transformer — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Qwen-VL: A Versatile Vision-Language Model for Understanding, Localization, Text Reading, and Beyond
• Qwen3-VL Technical Report
• Qwen2.5-VL Technical Report
• Benchmarking and Improving Detail Image Caption
• The Llama 3 Herd of Models
• DeepSeekMath: Pushing the Limits of Mathematical Reasoning in Open Language Models
• OpenAI GPT-5 System Card
• Gemma 3 Technical Report
• GLM-4.5: Agentic, Reasoning, and Coding (ARC) Foundation Models
• Qwen3 Technical Report
• InternVL3: Exploring Advanced Training and Test-Time Recipes for Open-Source Multimodal Models

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