From Blind Spots to Gains: Diagnostic-Driven Iterative Training for Large Multimodal Models

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Autores principales: Jia, Hongrui, Jiang, Chaoya, Heng, Yongrui, Zhang, Shikun, Ye, Wei
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author Jia, Hongrui
Jiang, Chaoya
Heng, Yongrui
Zhang, Shikun
Ye, Wei
author_facet Jia, Hongrui
Jiang, Chaoya
Heng, Yongrui
Zhang, Shikun
Ye, Wei
contents As Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) scale up and reinforcement learning (RL) methods mature, LMMs have made notable progress in complex reasoning and decision making. Yet training still relies on static data and fixed recipes, making it difficult to diagnose capability blind spots or provide dynamic, targeted reinforcement. Motivated by findings that test driven error exposure and feedback based correction outperform repetitive practice, we propose Diagnostic-driven Progressive Evolution (DPE), a spiral loop where diagnosis steers data generation and reinforcement, and each iteration re-diagnoses the updated model to drive the next round of targeted improvement. DPE has two key components. First, multiple agents annotate and quality control massive unlabeled multimodal data, using tools such as web search and image editing to produce diverse, realistic samples. Second, DPE attributes failures to specific weaknesses, dynamically adjusts the data mixture, and guides agents to generate weakness focused data for targeted reinforcement. Experiments on Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct and Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct show stable, continual gains across eleven benchmarks, indicating DPE as a scalable paradigm for continual LMM training under open task distributions. Our code, models, and data are publicly available at https://github.com/hongruijia/DPE.
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spellingShingle From Blind Spots to Gains: Diagnostic-Driven Iterative Training for Large Multimodal Models
Jia, Hongrui
Jiang, Chaoya
Heng, Yongrui
Zhang, Shikun
Ye, Wei
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
As Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) scale up and reinforcement learning (RL) methods mature, LMMs have made notable progress in complex reasoning and decision making. Yet training still relies on static data and fixed recipes, making it difficult to diagnose capability blind spots or provide dynamic, targeted reinforcement. Motivated by findings that test driven error exposure and feedback based correction outperform repetitive practice, we propose Diagnostic-driven Progressive Evolution (DPE), a spiral loop where diagnosis steers data generation and reinforcement, and each iteration re-diagnoses the updated model to drive the next round of targeted improvement. DPE has two key components. First, multiple agents annotate and quality control massive unlabeled multimodal data, using tools such as web search and image editing to produce diverse, realistic samples. Second, DPE attributes failures to specific weaknesses, dynamically adjusts the data mixture, and guides agents to generate weakness focused data for targeted reinforcement. Experiments on Qwen3-VL-8B-Instruct and Qwen2.5-VL-7B-Instruct show stable, continual gains across eleven benchmarks, indicating DPE as a scalable paradigm for continual LMM training under open task distributions. Our code, models, and data are publicly available at https://github.com/hongruijia/DPE.
title From Blind Spots to Gains: Diagnostic-Driven Iterative Training for Large Multimodal Models
topic Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.22859