The paper introduces VisualNoiseQA, a benchmark that tests large language models (LLMs) on active reasoning tasks involving noisy visual feedback. In this setup, a text-only LLM must solve visual question answering (VQA) problems by repeatedly querying an off-the-shelf vision-language model (VLM) that acts as a stochastic sensor. Each query generates multiple samples, and the resulting empirical uncertainty is exposed via self‑consistency, allowing the LLM to decide what to ask next and when to stop. The benchmark is automatically constructed from diverse VQA sources and two noisy VLMs, retaining only questions where the sensor is inconsistent yet solvable by humans, and evaluates several LLM reasoners on 1,000 instances covering perception, chart understanding, and knowledge-intensive reasoning.
arXiv:2505. 23399v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We propose GAM-Agent, a game-theoretic multi-agent framework for enhancing vision-language reasoning.
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.
arXiv:2610.27341v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-language models (VLMs) have advanced rapidly in multimodal reasoning, yet they remain limited on tasks requiring fine-grained understanding of s...
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.
LADBench is a new benchmark comprising over 1,000 synthetic images that contain logical anomalies across four domains—Residential, Urban, Collaborative, and Nature. It introduces a Tiered Prompting Protocol that progressively discloses information to test how much explicit help a model needs to locate and reason about these faults. Evaluation of leading foundation models shows that even the best only reaches 70.11% accuracy, indicating that implicit logical fault detection remains largely unsolved.
The paper introduces CAVE, a structured credit assignment method that enhances Vision‑Language Models by evaluating intermediate reasoning steps through belief updates, evidence acquisition, and adaptive focus control. CAVE is built on a GRPO framework and guides models to optimize each action, improving reliability in fragmented visual reasoning. The authors also present TRACER‑Bench, a new benchmark covering nonlocal and semantically confusable reasoning dimensions, and show that CAVE boosts performance on both public datasets and this benchmark while maintaining strong general multimodal results.
arXiv:2603. 23867v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) have been applied to a wide range of reasoning tasks, yet it remains unclear whether they can reason robustly under distribution shifts.
arXiv:2604.07518v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Vision-Language Models often struggle with complex visual reasoning due to the visual information loss in textual CoT. Existing methods either add...
arXiv:2608. 02833v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Chart question answering (CQA) requires multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to integrate visual comprehension with logical reasoning, yet current models struggle with accurate visual grounding and coherent reasoning chains.
arXiv:2510. 04514v3 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recent multimodal LLMs have shown promise in chart-based visual question answering, but their performance declines sharply on unannotated charts-those requiring precise visual interpretation rather than relying on textual shortcuts.
Beacon is a new agentic visual reasoning model that improves multimodal large language models (MLLMs) by better deciding when to use tools and how to use them. It introduces two key concepts—Mode Adaptiveness, which ensures tools are invoked only when necessary, and Tool Effect, which measures the net benefit of tool use— and trains the model with supervised fine‑tuning and reinforcement learning that rewards necessity-aware decisions and expands capability through expert hints. Across 13 benchmarks, Beacon outperforms other open‑source models, achieving the highest average score and the largest net tool‑gain on diagnostic tests.
Hob‑VL is a benchmark for visually grounded Boolean reasoning that tests models on two tasks: determining whether a Boolean rule holds in an image and identifying the unique object that satisfies a Boolean description. It contains 6,000 balanced Yes/No questions built from ten visual statements across 1,000 generated scenes and 46 labeled photographs, plus 1,000 object‑identification questions on the same photographs. The questions are designed to challenge reasoning with misleading local cues, nested logical operations, and both symbolic and natural‑language presentations, revealing significant gaps in current model performance.