arXiv:2608.23074v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) can answer spatial questions, yet the mechanisms connecting object grounding to spatial reasoning remain poorly understoo...
By Xiwei Liu, Yulong Li, Xinlin Zhuang, Xuhui Li, Zhixiang Lu, Haolin Yang, Imran Razzak, Yutong Xie
arXiv:2606. 20077v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Visual tokens enter Large Language Models (LLMs) as raw, foreign signals.
By Wish Suharitdamrong, Tony Alex, Muhammad Awais, Sara Atito
Vision-language models (VLMs) can answer spatial questions, yet the mechanisms connecting object grounding to spatial reasoning remain poorly understood. It is underexplored whether spatial reasoning...
arXiv:2609.23717v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Global vision--language similarities compress an image and a caption into one vector, preserving semantics but not which word corresponds to which regi...
By Liuyang Song, Yi Zhang, Zhongyi Deng, Daqian Yang, Hongbo Zhang
Global vision--language similarities compress an image and a caption into one vector, preserving semantics but not which word corresponds to which region or how those regions are arranged; a model can...
arXiv:2606. 03988v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision language models (VLMs) excel at many tasks but still struggle with spatial reasoning when critical information is not directly observable.
By Mahtab Bigverdi, Lindsey Li, Weikai Huang, Yiming Liu, Jaemin Cho, Jieyu Zhang, Tuhin Kundu, Chris Dangjoo Kim, Zelun Luo, Linda Shapiro, Ranjay Krishna
arXiv:2608. 01899v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) perform well on commonsense reasoning tasks but struggle with visual spatial reasoning.
By Jing Wu, Jianhua Wu, Jiayi Guan, Jiahong Chen, Jinghui Lu, Hangjun Ye, Bingzhao Gao, Long Chen
Vision-language models commonly project all tokens produced by a pretrained vision encoder into a large language model. However, final-layer features can discard text, local attributes, and spatial relationships, while high-resolution inputs substantially increase context length and inference latency.
arXiv:2605. 20448v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models reliably name objects in a scene, but do they represent the 3D layout those objects inhabit?
By Animesh Maheshwari, Divyansh Sahu, Nishit Verma
arXiv:2607.10744v5 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Benefiting from the powerful priors embedded in large-scale pre-training data and the emerging commonsense reasoning ability, large language models...
By Changfei Fu, Guangcheng Chen, Aoxiang Gu, Haoxiang Liang, Wenjun Xu, Hong Zhang
The paper introduces Auto-Comp, a fully automated, concept-driven pipeline that generates photorealistic compositional benchmarks for vision‑language models. Auto‑Comp creates paired Minimal and Contextual samples for each concept, enabling isolation of core binding abilities from visio‑linguistic complexity. Evaluations across 25 models reveal consistent failures in attribute and relational binding, with context helping relational tasks but hindering attribute tasks due to visual clutter.
By Cristian Sbrolli, Toshihiko Yamasaki, Matteo Matteucci
VIVAS is a new Vision‑Language Model pre‑training framework that addresses the lack of fine‑grained visual perception in existing VLMs. It introduces a unified token space and a dense‑structural‑semantic vision tokenizer that expands the textual vocabulary with visual tokens, enabling vision‑language unified autoregressive supervision over both visual details and linguistic content. Trained on 12.4 T tokens, VIVAS achieves state‑of‑the‑art results on 7 tasks and 39 multimodal benchmarks.
By Zhehan Kan, Yubo Zhu, Xinghua Jiang, Zhixiang Wei, Shifeng Liu, Wei Tong, Sheng Zhong, Qingmin Liao, Wenming Yang, Xin Li, Yinsong Liu, Deqiang Jiang, Xing Sun