{"slug": "language-instructed-vision-embeddings-for-controllable-and-generalizable", "title": "Language-Instructed Vision Embeddings for Controllable and Generalizable Perception", "summary": "Researchers introduced Language-Instructed Vision Embeddings (LIVE), a method that uses language to dynamically guide vision encoders, eliminating the need for task-specific retraining. LIVE reduced visual hallucinations by 34 points on MMVP and outperformed larger vision-language models on visual question answering, demonstrating controllable and generalizable perception.", "body_md": "arXiv:2606.19584v1 Announce Type: new\nAbstract: Vision foundation models are typically trained as static feature extractors, placing the burden of task adaptation onto large downstream models. We propose an alternative paradigm: instead of solely feeding visual features into language models, we use language itself to dynamically guide the vision encoder. Our method, Language-Instructed Vision Embeddings (LIVE), leverages language as high-level guidance to produce task-centric embeddings at inference time, removing the need for task-specific retraining. This enables the encoder to focus on contextually relevant aspects of the input, yielding more controllable and generalizable representations. Empirically, LIVE reduces visual hallucinations (+34 points on MMVP), surpasses vision-language models with orders of magnitude more parameters on visual question answering, and generalizes to unseen instructions and tasks -- offering a direct path toward adaptive, instruction-driven visual intelligence.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/language-instructed-vision-embeddings-for-controllable-and-generalizable", "canonical_source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.19584", "published_at": "2026-06-19 04:00:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-19 04:01:00.526831+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["computer-vision", "large-language-models", "generative-ai"], "entities": ["LIVE", "MMVP"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/language-instructed-vision-embeddings-for-controllable-and-generalizable", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/language-instructed-vision-embeddings-for-controllable-and-generalizable.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/language-instructed-vision-embeddings-for-controllable-and-generalizable.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/language-instructed-vision-embeddings-for-controllable-and-generalizable.jsonld"}}