FORUM: Frozen Outputs Reconciled Using Model Agreement for Visual Grounding

arXiv:2609.37488 · cs.CV, cs.CL, cs.LG · Submitted 2026-09-27 · Read on arXiv

cs.CV, cs.CL, cs.LG

Submitted: 2026-09-27

Updated: 2026-09-27

Code: https://github.com/Neurogica/FORUM

Terminology

• Grounding — 40× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Accuracy — 23× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Visual Grounding — 18× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Benchmark — 12× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Consistency — 6× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Self-consistency — 6× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Clustering — 5× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Failure Modes — 3× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Ablation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Aggregation — 2× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Fine-Tuning — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Frozen model — 2× in this paper · explained in 3 episodes
• Reinforcement Learning — 2× in this paper · explained in 4 episodes
• Robustness — 2× in this paper · explained in 5 episodes
• Agentic Coding — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes
• Core — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Decoupling — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Model Merging — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Representation Learning — 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
• Shikra: Unleashing Multimodal LLM's Referential Dialogue Magic
• GLM-4.5V and GLM-4.1V-Thinking: Towards Versatile Multimodal Reasoning with Scalable Reinforcement Learning
• InternVL3.5: Advancing Open-Source Multimodal Models in Versatility, Reasoning, and Efficiency
• Youtu-VL: Unleashing Visual Potential via Unified Vision-Language Supervision

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