Papers with self-improvement framework
Enhancing Visual-Language Modality Alignment in Large Vision Language Models via Self-Improvement (2025.findings-naacl)
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Xiyao Wang, Jiuhai Chen, Zhaoyang Wang, Yuhang Zhou, Yiyang Zhou, Huaxiu Yao, Tianyi Zhou, Tom Goldstein, Parminder Bhatia, Taha Kass-Hout, Furong Huang, Cao Xiao
| Challenge: | Existing methods for visual and language alignment depend on external models or data, leading to uncontrollable and unstable results. |
| Approach: | They propose a framework that enhances visual and language alignment without external dependencies by incorporating an in-context self-critic mechanism that constructs preference pairs for tuning. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework outperforms existing methods and improves performance on 14 hallucination and comprehensive benchmarks. |
P3: Prompts Promote Prompting (2025.findings-acl)
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| Challenge: | Recent advances in prompt optimization have shown effectiveness of using multiple components to optimize models . however, such unilateral approaches often yield suboptimal results due to interdependent nature of these components. |
| Approach: | They propose a self-improvement framework that optimizes both system and user prompts . they use offline optimized prompts to promote online prompt optimization . |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves performance on general and reasoning tasks. |
UniCorn: Towards Self-Improving Unified Multimodal Models through Self-Generated Supervision (2026.acl-long)
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Zhen Fang, Ruiyan Han, XinYu Sun, Yuchen Ma, Ziheng Wang, Yu Zeng, Zehui Chen, Lin Chen, Wenxuan Huang, Wei-Jie Xu, Yi Cao, Feng Zhao
| Challenge: | Unified Multimodal Models have achieved remarkable success in cross-modal comprehension, but a gap persists in their ability to translate internal knowledge into faithful and controllable synthesis. |
| Approach: | They propose a self-improvement framework that partitions a single UMM into three collaborative roles: Proposer, Solver, and Judge. |
| Outcome: | The proposed framework improves on TIIF, DPG, CompBench and UniCycle benchmarks. |