arXiv Computation and Language

Multimodal Thinking with Renderable Programs

The paper introduces SVGLM, a framework that integrates scalable vector graphics (SVG) primitives into vision‑language models to enable image generation within reasoning tasks. By treating SVG both as image descriptions and text instructions, SVGLM offers a compact and interpretable method for connecting text and image reasoning. The authors provide a curated SVG‑based image editing dataset and demonstrate strong SVG generation and image‑aware reasoning performance on a mathematical benchmark.

arXiv Computer Vision

Sep 16

Reasoning with Image Generation

The paper introduces ReImaGin, a method that uses image generation models as a flexible visual reasoning tool for multimodal large language models. Unlike traditional fixed-function vision tools, ReImaGin accepts natural language commands and can perform open-ended visual operations such as removing occlusions or creating floorplans from multiple views. Experiments on six diverse visual reasoning tasks show that ReImaGin outperforms both text-only reasoning and specialist vision-tool baselines, achieving up to a 25% improvement.

By Nishad Singhi, Hector Garcia Rodriguez, Aditya Arora, Marcus Rohrbach, Anna Rohrbach

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 2

VisReason: A Large-Scale Dataset for Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

arXiv:2511. 17731v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) prompting has proven remarkably effective for eliciting complex reasoning in large language models (LLMs).

By Lingxiao Li, Yifan Wang, Xinyan Gao, Chen Tang, Xiangyu Yue, Chenyu You

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

Gen-VCoT: Generative Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Diffusion-Based RGB Intermediate Representations

arXiv:2606. 16783v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel at visual reasoning but rely on text-based chain-of-thought (CoT), lacking interpretable visual intermediates.

By Zhiqiang Zhou, Junliang Dai, Xu ling

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arXiv AI

Jun 9

Optical Reasoning: Rethinking Images as an Expressive Reasoning Medium Beyond Text

arXiv:2606. 09585v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Chain-of-Thought (CoT) improves the performance of Large Language Models (LLMs) and has been extended to Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs).

By Yutong Bian, Dongjie Cheng, Heming Xia, Yongqi Li, Wenjie Li

llms multimodal benchmarks

arXiv AI

Aug 18

MetaReason: Precise Interleaved Multimodal Reasoning via Editing Meta Information for Solving Geometry Problems

arXiv:2608. 15006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although visual reasoning is crucial for solving complex geometry tasks, existing vision-language models rely heavily on text-only reasoning.

By Penghao Yin, Haomin Wang, Qihong Tang, Xiaoye Qu, Hongjie Zhang, Xiao-Ping Zhang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 28

LanteRn: Latent Visual Structured Reasoning

arXiv:2603. 25629v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While language reasoning models excel in many tasks, visual reasoning remains challenging for current large multimodal models (LMMs).

By Andr\'e G. Viveiros, Nuno Gon\c{c}alves, Matthias Lindemann, Andr\'e Martins

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arXiv AI

Sep 1

SketchVLM: Vision language models can annotate images to explain thoughts and guide users

arXiv:2604.22875v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When answering questions about images, humans naturally point, label, and draw to explain their reasoning. In contrast, modern vision-languag...

By Brandon Collins, Logan Bolton, Hung Huy Nguyen, Mohammad Reza Taesiri, Trung Bui, Anh Totti Nguyen

llms fine-tuning multimodal benchmarks

arXiv AI

Aug 26

Scientific Image Synthesis: Benchmarking, Methodologies, and Downstream Utility

The paper presents a systematic study of scientific image synthesis, comparing pixel‑based generation and programmatic approaches. It introduces ImgCoder, a logic‑driven framework that follows an "understand‑plan‑code" workflow to enhance structural precision, and SciGenBench, a benchmark that evaluates images for information utility and logical validity. The authors find that pixel‑based models exhibit systematic failure modes and that fine‑tuning large multimodal models on rigorously verified synthetic images consistently improves downstream reasoning performance.

By Honglin Lin, Zheng Liu, Chonghan Qin, Qizhi Pei, Yu Li, Zhanping Zhong, Xin Gao, Yanfeng Wang, Conghui He, Lijun Wu

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arXiv AI

Aug 5

CURV: Enhancing Chart Understanding Through Curriculum Visual Grounded Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 02833v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chart question answering (CQA) requires multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to integrate visual comprehension with logical reasoning, yet current models struggle with accurate visual grounding and coherent reasoning chains.

By Xuehang Guo, Pingyue Zhang, Ruiyi Zhang, Zhenhailong Wang, Hanrui Lyu, Heng Ji, Tong Sun, Qingyun Wang, Manling Li

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arXiv AI

Aug 25

Think with Structured Grounding: Perceptual Reinforcement Learning for Chart and Visual-Tabular Understanding

arXiv:2608.22429v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) capable of thinking with images often rely on external tools for fine-grained perception. However, this relian...

By Changjiang Jiang, Qiannian Zhao, Lei Xin, Jinxiang Xie, Preslav Nakov, Zhuohan Xie

llms reinforcement-learning fine-tuning efficiency multimodal

arXiv AI

Jun 11

MentisOculi: Revealing the Limits of Reasoning with Mental Imagery

arXiv:2602. 02465v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Frontier models are transitioning from multimodal large language models (MLLMs) that merely ingest visual information to unified multimodal models (UMMs) capable of native interleaved generation.

By Jana Zeller, Thadd\"aus Wiedemer, Fanfei Li, Thomas Klein, Prasanna Mayilvahanan, Matthias Bethge, Felix Wichmann, Ryan Cotterell, Wieland Brendel

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arXiv Computer Vision

Sep 1

Evaluating Constrained Iterative Refinement for Scalable Vector Graphics Generation with Off-the-Shelf VLMs

arXiv:2608.28678v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Scalable Vector Graphics (SVGs) power much of the modern visual ecosystem, yet state-of-the-art generative models focus almost entirely on rasterized i...

By Matthew Perlman, James Beetham, Niels Da Vitoria Lobo, Amrit Singh Bedi, Mubarak Shah

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