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Autori principali: Roy, Rajarshi, Das, Devleena, Banerjee, Ankesh, Bhattacharjee, Arjya, Dasgupta, Kousik, Tripathi, Subarna
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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Accesso online:https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08679
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author Roy, Rajarshi
Das, Devleena
Banerjee, Ankesh
Bhattacharjee, Arjya
Dasgupta, Kousik
Tripathi, Subarna
author_facet Roy, Rajarshi
Das, Devleena
Banerjee, Ankesh
Bhattacharjee, Arjya
Dasgupta, Kousik
Tripathi, Subarna
contents We introduce ByDeWay, a training-free framework designed to enhance the performance of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). ByDeWay uses a novel prompting strategy called Layered-Depth-Based Prompting (LDP), which improves spatial reasoning and grounding without modifying any model parameters. It segments the scene into closest, mid-range, and farthest layers using monocular depth estimation, then generates region-specific captions with a grounded vision-language model. These structured, depth-aware captions are appended to the image-question prompt, enriching it with spatial context. This guides MLLMs to produce more grounded and less hallucinated responses. Our method is lightweight, modular, and compatible with black-box MLLMs. Experiments on hallucination-sensitive (POPE) and reasoning-intensive (GQA) benchmarks show consistent improvements across multiple MLLMs, validating the effectiveness of depth-aware prompting in a zero-training setting.
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spellingShingle ByDeWay: Boost Your multimodal LLM with DEpth prompting in a Training-Free Way
Roy, Rajarshi
Das, Devleena
Banerjee, Ankesh
Bhattacharjee, Arjya
Dasgupta, Kousik
Tripathi, Subarna
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
We introduce ByDeWay, a training-free framework designed to enhance the performance of Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). ByDeWay uses a novel prompting strategy called Layered-Depth-Based Prompting (LDP), which improves spatial reasoning and grounding without modifying any model parameters. It segments the scene into closest, mid-range, and farthest layers using monocular depth estimation, then generates region-specific captions with a grounded vision-language model. These structured, depth-aware captions are appended to the image-question prompt, enriching it with spatial context. This guides MLLMs to produce more grounded and less hallucinated responses. Our method is lightweight, modular, and compatible with black-box MLLMs. Experiments on hallucination-sensitive (POPE) and reasoning-intensive (GQA) benchmarks show consistent improvements across multiple MLLMs, validating the effectiveness of depth-aware prompting in a zero-training setting.
title ByDeWay: Boost Your multimodal LLM with DEpth prompting in a Training-Free Way
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08679