arXiv Machine Learning

DLWM: Diverse Latent World Models for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 15160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have improved considerably in recent years.

arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 28

LanteRn: Latent Visual Structured Reasoning

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).

By Andr\'e G. Viveiros, Nuno Gon\c{c}alves, Matthias Lindemann, Andr\'e Martins

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arXiv AI

Aug 5

Balancing Efficiency and Efficacy: Training-Free Attention-Guided Switching Between Explicit and Latent Thoughts for MLLMs

arXiv:2608. 03450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) requires both fine-grained visual perception and rigorous logical deduction.

By Haoqian Kang, Liupeng Li, Kuofeng Gao, Jinpeng Wang, Zhenyu Lu, Bin Chen, Ke Chen, Yaowei Wang

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jul 2

VisReason: A Large-Scale Dataset for Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

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

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Hugging Face Trending Papers

Jun 22

VideoLatent: Video-Language Learning via Latent Self-Forcing

Recent advancements in chain-of-thought (CoT) reasoning have shown promise in enhancing video understanding and reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs). However, existing CoT-based MLLMs require labor-intensive CoT annotations and incur substantial training and inference overhead.

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 2

DeepLatent: Think with Images via Parallel Latent Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 00562v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: The emerging paradigm of "thinking with images" embeds visual states into intermediate reasoning steps, defining a new frontier for Vision-Language Models.

By Dongchen Lu, Zhimo Li, Mao Shu, Huo Cao

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arXiv AI

1d ago

Deep Thought Alignment: Trajectory-Level Latent Distillation for Video Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 16316v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Large Multimodal Models (LMMs) for video reasoning have long been hindered by the high computational cost of processing vast amounts of visual information.

By Ao Shen, Yongheng Zhang, Yinghui Li, Manning Wang, Di Yin, Xing Sun

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

Think Less, Act Early: Reinforced Latent Reasoning with Early Exit in Vision-Language-Action Models

arXiv:2606. 15099v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Existing Vision-Language-Action (VLA) models predominantly rely on explicit Chain-of-Thought (CoT) reasoning to bridge perception and action.

By Dianqiao Lei, Lianlei Shan

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arXiv AI

Jun 16

UniT: Unified Multimodal Chain-of-Thought Test-time Scaling

arXiv:2602. 12279v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Unified models can handle both multimodal understanding and generation within a single architecture, yet they typically operate in a single pass without iteratively refining their outputs.

By Leon Liangyu Chen, Haoyu Ma, Zhipeng Fan, Ziqi Huang, Animesh Sinha, Xiaoliang Dai, Jialiang Wang, Zecheng He, Jianwei Yang, Chunyuan Li, Junzhe Sun, Chu Wang, Serena Yeung-Levy, Felix Juefei-Xu

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 25

SyncLoop: A Multimodal Dual-Loop Framework for Self-Improving Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2507. 16518v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown impressive reasoning capabilities.

By Xiuwei Chen, Wentao Hu, Hanhui Li, Yongxin Wang Jun Zhou, Zisheng Chen, Meng Cao, Yihan Zeng, Kui Zhang, Yu-Jie Yuan, Jianhua Han, Hang Xu, Xiaodan Liang

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arXiv AI

2d ago

Think in Latent, Explain in Language: Self-Explainable Latent Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 13570v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Latent reasoning has emerged as a powerful alternative to text-based Chain-of-Thought (CoT), offering significant gains in computational efficiency by compressing verbose reasoning into compact embeddings.

By Dayuan Zhao, Shengcao Cao, Yu-Xiong Wang, Liang-Yan Gui

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arXiv AI

Jul 17

Stop Thinking, Start Looking: Efficient Post-Training for Multimodal Document Question Answering via Reasoning-Free Alignment

arXiv:2607. 14682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient multimodal document question answering with explicit visual grounding, locating the precise document region that supports each answer remains an open challenge.

By Harikrishnan P M, Goutham Vignesh, Ganesh Parab, Saisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan, Vishal Vaddina, Varun V, Rohit Agrawal

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arXiv AI

Aug 11

StructReward: Efficient Structured Process Rewards for Self-Correcting Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2608. 08326v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards (RLVR) has emerged as an effective approach for improving multimodal reasoning.

By Yifan Li, Ruxin Sun, Tongzhou Zhao

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