arXiv:2607. 15176v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly used to interpret visualizations, yet current evaluations remain largely chart-centric and provide limited evidence of understanding of scientific visualization (SciVis).
By Patrick Phuoc Do, Chau M. Ta, Chaoli Wang
arXiv:2606. 04244v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models are increasingly capable of complex reasoning, yet their performance often degrades when they must externalize a problem through a tool and then reason over the tool's output, specifically when they rely on visual aids.
By Amirhossein Dabiriaghdam, Shayan Vassef, Mohammadreza Bakhtiari, Yasamin Medghalchi, Ilker Hacihaliloglu, Mesrob Ohannessian, Lele Wang, Giuseppe Carenini
arXiv:2603. 29139v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled agentic systems to translate natural-language intent into executable scientific visualization (SciVis) tasks.
By Kuangshi Ai, Haichao Miao, Kaiyuan Tang, Nathaniel Gorski, Jianxin Sun, Guoxi Liu, Helgi I. Ingolfsson, David Lenz, Hanqi Guo, Hongfeng Yu, Teja Leburu, Michael Molash, Bei Wang, Tom Peterka, Chaoli Wang, Shusen Liu
arXiv:2512. 11995v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: While many vision-language models (VLMs) are developed to answer well-defined, straightforward questions with highly specified targets, as in most benchmarks, they often struggle in practice with complex open-ended tasks, which usually require multiple rounds of exploration and reasoning in the visual space.
By Chenrui Fan, Yijun Liang, Shweta Bhardwaj, Kwesi Cobbina, Ming Li, Tianyi Zhou
arXiv:2506. 03922v4 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant potential to advance a broad range of domains.
By Zhaolu Kang, Junhao Gong, Jiaxu Yan, Wanke Xia, Yian Wang, Ziwen Wang, Huaxuan Ding, Zhuo Cheng, Wenhao Cao, Zhiyuan Feng, Siqi He, Shannan Yan, Junzhe Chen, Xiaomin He, Chaoya Jiang, Wei Ye, Kaidong Yu, Xuelong Li
arXiv:2608. 08964v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The generation of mathematically precise diagrams from tex- tual prompts has emerged as a critical yet underexplored capability of Large Language Models (LLMs).
By Harish Kashyap, Kiran Byadarhaly, Sriram Chakaravarthy, Sanyukta Tuti, Aryan Mistry
arXiv:2606. 03626v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have been explored for visual programming, where they generate code to solve visual tasks.
By Chao Wen, Jacqueline Staub, Adish Singla
arXiv:2607. 09068v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent advancements in LVLMs necessitate robust benchmarks for complex, visually grounded reasoning.
By Yang Chen, Yunwen Li, Yufan Shen, Minghao Liu, Tianyu Zheng, Bin Fu, Qunshu Lin, Zhi Yu, Botian Shi
Knowledge-Intensive Visual Question Answering (KI-VQA) benchmarks evaluate Vision-Language Models (VLMs) as multimodal knowledge assistants by requiring external information beyond a provided image to answer questions. KI-VQA involves multiple sub-problems -referring expression understanding, visual grounding, object recognition, knowledge retrieval, and reasoning-yet existing benchmarks typically report only end-task accuracy, obscuring where failures arise.
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
arXiv:2605. 09883v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As current Multimodal Large Language Models rapidly saturate canonical visual reasoning benchmarks, a key question emerges: do these strong scores genuinely reflect robust visual understanding?
By Xia Hu, Zhenrui Yue, Brian Potetz, Howard Zhou, Leonidas Guibas, Chun-Ta Lu, Zhicheng Wang
arXiv:2606. 10833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong performance on general multimodal reasoning benchmarks, yet their ability to perform engineering reasoning remains largely unexplored.
By Syed Wasiq, Syed Mohamad Tawseeq, Yashwant Pravinrao Bangde, Debaditya Roy