Injecting Distributional Awareness into MLLMs via Reinforcement Learning for Deep Imbalanced Regression
Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) struggle with numerical regression under long-tailed target distributions. Token-level supervised fine-tuning (SFT) and point-wise regression rewards bias learning toward high-density regions, leading to regression-to-the-mean behavior and poor tail performance. We identify the lack of cross-sample relational supervision as a key limitation of existing MLLM training paradigms. To address it, we propose a distribution-aware reinforcement learning framework based on Group Relative Policy Optimization, which introduces batch-level comparison-based supervision via the Concordance Correlation Coefficient-based reward to align predicted and ground-truth ...
| Authors | Yao Du, Shanshan Song, Xiaomeng Li |
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| Primary category | cs.CL |
| Published | 2 May 2026 |
| Last updated at source | 11 May 2026 |
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