Are We There Yet? Exploring the Capabilities of MLLMs in Assistive AI Applications

arXiv:2606.25084v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have redefined visual understanding by combining vision encoders with large-scale language models. This unified architecture enables strong performance on tasks like image captioning, visual question answering, and multimodal dialogue, often in zero- and few-shot settings. Their general-purpose capabilities and flexible interfaces make MLLMs a promising foundation for real-world vision-language applications....