arXiv AI

On Locality and Length Generalization in Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2607. 09061v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: A striking feature of the human visual system is that it ingests visual information through a series of local foveated glimpses, rather than a single global computation.

arXiv AI
5d ago

LongEarth-R1: Benchmarking and Aligning Vision-Language Models for Long-Horizon Earth Observation Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 13344v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Long-horizon Earth observation reasoning requires models to organize multi-stage geographic evolution, localize spatial changes, detect temporal anomalies, and infer future from extended image sequences.

By Yupan Ding, Jing Xiao, Zhenyuan Zhang, Chaofeng Chen, Liang Liao, Gui-Song Xia, Mi Wang
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Seeing Time: Benchmarking Chronological Reasoning and Shortcut Biases in Vision-Language Models

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.

By Haoyu Zhou, Qing Qing, Caichong Li, Qixin Zhang, Yongcheng Jing, Ziqi Xu, Juncheng Hu, Xikun Zhang, Renqiang Luo
arXiv AI
Jul 17

FoMoVLA: Bridging Visual Foresight and Motion Guidance for Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2607. 14739v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models have achieved impressive results in visuomotor policy learning, yet remain fundamentally reactive, mapping current observations and language to actions without explicit forward prediction of world dynamics.

By Wei Li, Peijin Jia, Yuan Ma, Xuefeng Jiang, Titong Jiang, Sheng Sun, Yujian Li, Xin Wen, Han Hong, Zhikang Liu, Bailin Li, Kun Zhan
arXiv AI
Jun 12

ReFoCUS: Reinforcement-guided Frame Optimization for Contextual Understanding

arXiv:2506. 01274v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent progress in Large Multi-modal Models (LMMs) has enabled effective vision-language reasoning, yet the ability to video understanding remains constrained by suboptimal frame selection strategies, albeit with the rapid development of video-specialized LMMs.

By Hosu Lee, Junho Kim, Hyunjun Kim, Yong Man Ro
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 20

More with Less: a Large Scale Remote Sensing VLM with a Simple Recipe

arXiv:2607. 15942v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Remote sensing vision-language models are increasingly expected to support open-ended reasoning over Earth Observation data and a variety of tasks.

By Stefan Maria Ailuro (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Mario Markov (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Mohammad Mahdi (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Luc Van Gool (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"), Danda Pani Paudel (INSAIT, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski")
arXiv AI
Jun 29

EXPLORE-Bench: Egocentric Scene Prediction with Long-Horizon Reasoning

arXiv:2603. 09731v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) are increasingly considered as a foundation for embodied agents, yet it remains unclear whether they can reliably reason about the long-term physical consequences of actions from an egocentric viewpoint.

By Chengjun Yu, Xuhan Zhu, Chaoqun Du, Pengfei Yu, Wei Zhai, Yang Cao, Zheng-Jun Zha
arXiv AI
Jun 6

Image Generators are Generalist Vision Learners

arXiv:2604. 20329v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent works show that image and video generators exhibit zero-shot visual understanding behaviors, in a way reminiscent of how LLMs develop emergent capabilities of language understanding and reasoning from generative pretraining.

By Valentin Gabeur, Shangbang Long, Songyou Peng, Paul Voigtlaender, Shuyang Sun, Yanan Bao, Karen Truong, Zhicheng Wang, Wenlei Zhou, Jonathan T. Barron, Kyle Genova, Nithish Kannen, Sherry Ben, Yandong Li, Mandy Guo, Suhas Yogin, Yiming Gu, Huizhong Chen, Oliver Wang, Saining Xie, Howard Zhou, Kaiming He, Thomas Funkhouser, Jean-Baptiste Alayrac, Radu Soricut