arXiv Computer Vision

UR$^{2}$-MLLM: Uncertainty-aware Revisit Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models for Radiology Report Generation

The paper introduces UR$^{2}$-MLLM, an uncertainty‑aware multimodal large language model that dynamically revisits uncertain image regions during radiology report generation. It incorporates an uncertainty perception module trained on a specialized dataset, builds a multimodal reasoning trajectory with a detect‑and‑copy mechanism to guide revisits, and refines this behavior using a visual grounding reward via reinforcement learning. Experiments on MIMIC‑CXR and IU‑Xray demonstrate state‑of‑the‑art performance, underscoring the importance of visual revisit reasoning for reliable, clinically aligned reports.

arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 22

Lingshu: A Generalist Foundation Model for Unified Multimodal Medical Understanding and Reasoning

Lingshu is a medical‑specialized multimodal large language model that addresses key limitations of existing medical MLLMs, such as narrow knowledge coverage, hallucinations, and weak reasoning. The authors curate a comprehensive dataset combining medical imaging, texts, and general‑domain data, then train Lingshu in multiple stages to embed medical expertise and improve task performance. They also introduce MedEvalKit, a unified evaluation framework, and demonstrate that Lingshu outperforms current open‑source multimodal models on multimodal QA, text‑based QA, and medical report generation.

By Weiwen Xu, Hou Pong Chan, Long Li, Mahani Aljunied, Ruifeng Yuan, Jianyu Wang, Chenghao Xiao, Guizhen Chen, Chaoqun Liu, Zhaodonghui Li, Yu Sun, Junao Shen, Chaojun Wang, Jie Tan, Deli Zhao, Tingyang Xu, Hao Zhang, Yu Rong
arXiv AI
Oct 1

From Compound Figures to Medical Multi-image Reasoning: Scaling Multimodal Large Language Models with Biomedical Literature

arXiv:2511.22232v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly capable in medical imaging, yet most focus on single-image settings. Clinical inter...

By Zhen Chen, Yihang Fu, Rong Zhou, Serina Applebaum, Min Kyu Kim, Aidan Gilson, Morten Lee, Salahudeen Mirza, Gabriel Madera, Mauro Giuffre, Yuanting Pan, Roy Jiang, Hyunjae Kim, Hua Xu, Qingyu Chen
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Breaking Failure Cascades: Step-Aware Reinforcement Learning for Medical Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 31825v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent multimodal large language models have shown great promise in clinical image reasoning, but existing post-training pipelines remain predominantly outcome-centric, relying on final answer correctness or sequence-level preferences.

By Junha Jung, Minbyul Jeong, Suhyeon Lim, Sungwook Jung, Jaehoon Yun, Taeyun Roh, Mujeen Sung, Jaewoo Kang
arXiv AI
Jul 1

Evo-PI: Aligning Medical Reasoning via Evolving Principle-Guided Supervision

arXiv:2606. 31800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Despite recent progress, the reasoning capabilities of large multimodal language models (MLLMs) remain fundamentally constrained by static supervision, where fixed prompts, rules, or reward models provide non-adaptive guidance throughout training.

By Xianda Zheng, Huan Gao, Meng-Fen Chiang, Michael Witbrock, Kaiqi Zhao, Shangyang Li
arXiv AI
Jun 24

E-MRL: Cross-view Aligned Evidence-driven Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Reliable 3D Tumor Analysis

arXiv:2606. 23888v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Vision-Language Models (VLMs) show great promise in volumetric medical report generation, they frequently suffer from visual hallucinations and a lack of grounding in 3D CT data.

By Sijing Li, Zhongwei Qiu, Zhuoya Wang, Boxiang Yun, Zhenyu Yi, Jianwei Xu, Wenqiao Zhang, Yingda Xia, Ling Zhang
arXiv AI
Sep 21

LiteMedCoT-VL: Parameter-Efficient Adaptation for Medical Visual Question Answering

LiteMedCoT-VL is a parameter‑efficient pipeline that transfers chain‑of‑thought reasoning from a 235B teacher model to a 2B student model using LoRA fine‑tuning on explanation‑enriched data. The approach enables a compact vision‑language model to perform medical visual question answering without relying on image captions, achieving 64.9% accuracy on the PMC‑VQA benchmark—an 11‑point improvement over the zero‑shot Qwen3‑VL‑4B baseline. Visual grounding analysis confirms that the model bases its predictions on image content rather than textual priors.

By Runze Ma, Shunbo Jia, Haonan Lyu, Guo Liu, Caizhi Liao
arXiv AI
Jun 11

OpenMedReason: Scientific Reasoning Supervision for Medical Vision-Language Models

arXiv:2606. 12169v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: High-stakes clinical use of large vision-language models (LVLMs) requires reasoning that is grounded in visual evidence and clinical knowledge, not just correct final answers.

By Negin Baghbanzadeh, Pritam Sarkar, Michael Colacci, Abeer Badawi, Adibvafa Fallahpour, Arash Afkanpour, Leonid Sigal, Ali Etemad, Elham Dolatabadi
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