The paper introduces CMPM, a Chinese Multi-Panel Meme benchmark comprising 1,214 annotated samples that capture five structural types, ordering dependencies, panel-order constraints, and optional comment context. It defines a two-layer evaluation: Task 1 tests structure typing and order-sensitive panel sequencing, while Task 2 assesses Chinese meme explanation generation using human ratings across visual, panel, humor, context, and faithfulness dimensions. Benchmarking five large vision‑language models shows that accuracy on canonical displays does not guarantee order understanding, as performance drops sharply under shuffled conditions, and that Gemini 3.1 Pro and GPT‑5.5 outperform open models in Task 2, with comment context providing only modest gains.
arXiv:2605. 18160v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: In recent years, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have achieved remarkable progress, primarily attributed to effective paradigms for integrating visual and textual information.
arXiv:2606. 05702v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly enhanced their ability to interpret complex visual semantics, yet their capacity for chronological reasoning remains under-explored.
Recent advancements in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have significantly enhanced their ability to interpret complex visual semantics, yet their capacity for chronological reasoning remains under-explored. In this paper, we introduce a novel benchmark specifically designed to evaluate how VLMs perceive and reason about chronological information within and across images.
UReason is a benchmark that evaluates how well unified multimodal models (UMMs) align textual reasoning with image generation. It contains 2,000 human‑curated instances across five reasoning‑intensive tasks—Code, Arithmetic, Spatial, Attribute, and Text—and compares direct generation, reasoning‑guided generation, and decontextualized generation. The study finds that while reasoning‑guided generation improves over direct generation, decontextualized generation consistently outperforms it, indicating that the visual semantics in textual reasoning are not reliably reflected in the generated images.
arXiv:2608. 11907v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: As Large Vision-Language Models increasingly aim to integrate visual generation and understanding within a single parameter space, evaluating such structural unification in a cohesive manner remains a critical challenge.
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).
arXiv:2601. 04498v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Infographics are composite visual artifacts that combine data visualizations with textual and illustrative elements to communicate information.
arXiv:2608.23172v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale vision-language models (VLMs) have demonstrated remarkable versatility across a wide range of multimodal tasks. However, understanding humo...
arXiv:2607. 08056v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Diffusion Language Models (DLMs) have recently achieved substantial progress in natural language generation tasks.
As generative multimedia evolves from static image synthesis to complex, interleaved visual narratives, a foundational bottleneck has emerged: the judgment crisis. While human perception naturally synthesizes the temporal and logical flow of a story, automated evaluation systems remain largely "blind" to sequential continuity, often failing to distinguish between a coherent narrative and a semantically shuffled or contradictory sequence.
arXiv:2606. 05843v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate remarkable proficiency on complex vision-language tasks, the mechanisms by which they extract query-relevant visual features from complex, noisy contexts remain opaque.
arXiv:2608. 04726v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models increasingly reason over screenshots and documents where the task itself may be written in pixels.