From One-to-One to Many-to-Many: Dynamic Cross-Layer Injection for Deep Vision-Language Fusion
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| author | Chen, Cheng Guo, Yuyu Zeng, Pengpeng Song, Jingkuan Di, Peng Yu, Hang Gao, Lianli |
| author_facet | Chen, Cheng Guo, Yuyu Zeng, Pengpeng Song, Jingkuan Di, Peng Yu, Hang Gao, Lianli |
| contents | Vision-Language Models (VLMs) create a severe visual feature bottleneck by using a crude, asymmetric connection that links only the output of the vision encoder to the input of the large language model (LLM). This static architecture fundamentally limits the ability of LLMs to achieve comprehensive alignment with hierarchical visual knowledge, compromising their capacity to accurately integrate local details with global semantics into coherent reasoning. To resolve this, we introduce Cross-Layer Injection (CLI), a novel and lightweight framework that forges a dynamic many-to-many bridge between the two modalities. CLI consists of two synergistic, parameter-efficient components: an Adaptive Multi-Projection (AMP) module that harmonizes features from diverse vision layers, and an Adaptive Gating Fusion (AGF) mechanism that empowers the LLM to selectively inject the most relevant visual information based on its real-time decoding context. We validate the effectiveness and versatility of CLI by integrating it into LLaVA-OneVision and LLaVA-1.5. Extensive experiments on 18 diverse benchmarks demonstrate significant performance improvements, establishing CLI as a scalable paradigm that unlocks deeper multimodal understanding by granting LLMs on-demand access to the full visual hierarchy. |
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| spellingShingle | From One-to-One to Many-to-Many: Dynamic Cross-Layer Injection for Deep Vision-Language Fusion Chen, Cheng Guo, Yuyu Zeng, Pengpeng Song, Jingkuan Di, Peng Yu, Hang Gao, Lianli Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Vision-Language Models (VLMs) create a severe visual feature bottleneck by using a crude, asymmetric connection that links only the output of the vision encoder to the input of the large language model (LLM). This static architecture fundamentally limits the ability of LLMs to achieve comprehensive alignment with hierarchical visual knowledge, compromising their capacity to accurately integrate local details with global semantics into coherent reasoning. To resolve this, we introduce Cross-Layer Injection (CLI), a novel and lightweight framework that forges a dynamic many-to-many bridge between the two modalities. CLI consists of two synergistic, parameter-efficient components: an Adaptive Multi-Projection (AMP) module that harmonizes features from diverse vision layers, and an Adaptive Gating Fusion (AGF) mechanism that empowers the LLM to selectively inject the most relevant visual information based on its real-time decoding context. We validate the effectiveness and versatility of CLI by integrating it into LLaVA-OneVision and LLaVA-1.5. Extensive experiments on 18 diverse benchmarks demonstrate significant performance improvements, establishing CLI as a scalable paradigm that unlocks deeper multimodal understanding by granting LLMs on-demand access to the full visual hierarchy. |
| title | From One-to-One to Many-to-Many: Dynamic Cross-Layer Injection for Deep Vision-Language Fusion |
| topic | Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.10710 |