arXiv:2608. 15869v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models increasingly use visual chain-of-thought (Visual CoT) to reason about spatial, temporal, and embodied environments.
By Xiaoyu Zhu, Xinke Deng, Suresh Taddewadikar, Arnab Kumar Mondal, Zhongyu Jiang, Ian Fasel, Joerg Liebelt
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:2508. 07683v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Video Temporal Grounding (VTG) aims to localize specific video segments corresponding to natural language queries.
By Chaohong Guo, Xun Mo, Yongwei Nie, Fei Ma, Xuemiao Xu, Chengjiang Long
arXiv:2604. 09686v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Traditional neural network models for intent inference rely heavily on observable states and struggle to generalize across diverse tasks and dynamic environments.
By Anshul Nayak, Shahil Shaik, Yue Wang
MV-STRIDE is a Multi‑View hierarchical Spatial Reasoning dataset that models dependencies among perception, scene understanding, and contextual reasoning to support 3D spatial cognition. It introduces a QA generation pipeline that enforces cross‑view constraints, producing multi‑level reasoning tasks with chain‑of‑thought supervision. Experiments show that training on MV‑STRIDE yields state‑of‑the‑art performance on multi‑view spatial benchmarks, enabling MLLMs to reason robustly across diverse viewpoints.
By Jin Xu, Xiaojian Huang, Zhuodong Luo, Zhihong Zhang, Xin Liu, Jiansheng Wei, Xinzhi Wang, Jie Zhao, Xuejin Chen
STRAND is a new benchmark that tests multimodal large language models’ ability to track objects, their states, and relationships over time in videos. It evaluates intermediate reasoning by breaking queries into sub‑questions and uses Faithful Accuracy to ensure all parts of an answer are correct. The authors also propose an object‑centric framework that builds structured trajectories and shows reduced hallucinations and better temporal consistency compared to existing models.
By Thong Nguyen, Tri Cao, Khoi Le, Cong-Duy Nguyen, Quynh Vo, See-Kiong Ng, Bryan Hooi Kuen-Yew
arXiv:2606.15417v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Action reasoning in egocentric video requires capturing fine-grained transitions of hand-object interactions, a task where general-purpose Vision-L...
By Bessie Dominguez-Dager, Francisco Gomez-Donoso, Miguel Cazorla, Marc Pollefeys, Daniel Barath, Zuria Bauer
The paper introduces IG‑VLA, a vision‑language‑action framework that learns to imagine task‑relevant future scene evolution in a latent spatiotemporal space, guiding action prediction without generating full pixel‑level videos. It further compresses this future reasoning into a compact Scene Gist Token via Scene Gist Memory, enabling efficient inference. Experiments on LIBERO, LIBERO‑Plus, and VLABench show that IG‑VLA improves success rates by nearly 6% and speeds up inference up to 6.38× compared to strong baselines.
By Shenglan Li, Zhendong Mi, Hengyi Zhu, Jingwu Luo, Chun Kit Chan, Geng Yuan, Yanzhi Wang, Pu Zhao, Shaoyi Huang
VisualSphinx is a large-scale synthetic dataset designed to train vision language models (VLMs) on visual logical reasoning tasks. The dataset is generated through a rule-to-image synthesis pipeline that expands puzzle rules from seed questions and produces executable rendering programs for puzzle assembly. Experiments using standard GRPO with binary correctness rewards show that VLMs trained on VisualSphinx achieve improved logical coherence and performance on logical reasoning, as well as on related tasks such as algebraic, arithmetic, and geometry reasoning.
By Yichen Feng, Zhangchen Xu, Fengqing Jiang, Yuetai Li, Bhaskar Ramasubramanian, Luyao Niu, Bill Yuchen Lin, Radha Poovendran
arXiv:2606. 15753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied reasoning requires models to perceive task-relevant objects and spaces in physical environments and maintain consistent visual grounding throughout multi-step reasoning.
By Yaoting Huang, Yifu Yuan, Linqi Han, Chengwen Li, Shuoheng Zhang, Xianze Yao, Hongyao Tang, Yan Zheng, Jianye Hao
arXiv:2610.41314v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Dynamic spatial reasoning is essential for connecting visual intelligence to thephysical world, yet remains challenging for vision-language models (VLM...
By Ke Yang, Zhenyu Zhang, Jun Li
CoWorld Reasoner is an agentic framework that leverages a Video World Model (VWM) as a unified visual reasoning engine for Vision‑Language Models (VLMs). It exposes multiple visual operations through tools and skills, allowing the VLM to decide when to imagine, select an operation, generate visual content, and interpret the resulting evidence. The framework includes a VLM‑VWM Harness Co‑Evolution mechanism that jointly refines tools, skills, and execution code based on feedback, while keeping model weights fixed. Across seven benchmarks covering spatial, temporal, causal, and perceptual reasoning, CoWorld Reasoner outperforms direct VLM reasoning and improves accuracy on all benchmarks, achieving notable gains on MMSI and ERQA.
By Dongjie Cheng, Ruifeng Yuan, Ran Wei, Ning Song, Yongqi Li, Wenjie Li