arXiv:2609.16233v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Vision-language models excel at 2D image understanding but remain limited in 3D spatial reasoning. Progress is hindered by limitations in current ben...
arXiv:2506.17545v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Large language models are increasingly being applied to 3D scene understanding. However, existing 3D-aware LLMs largely operate as black boxes: the...
MV-STRIDE is a Multi‑View hierarchical Spatial Reasoning dataset that models dependencies among perception, scene understanding, and contextual reasoning to support 3D spatial cognition. It introduces a QA generation pipeline that enforces cross‑view constraints, producing multi‑level reasoning tasks with chain‑of‑thought supervision. Experiments show that training on MV‑STRIDE yields state‑of‑the‑art performance on multi‑view spatial benchmarks, enabling MLLMs to reason robustly across diverse viewpoints.
3D-SceneQ is a new 3D large language model that tackles two key limitations of existing 3D scene understanding pipelines: the inclusion of irrelevant object tokens that add noise, and the exclusive use of point cloud data that lacks rich semantic cues. It introduces a Query‑Guided Adaptive Pruning (QGAP) module that selectively keeps task‑relevant objects based on user instructions, and a Multi‑modal Object‑level Feature Enhancement (MOFE) module that fuses 2D feature embeddings into the 3D representation to enrich semantic information. Experiments show that 3D‑SceneQ surpasses state‑of‑the‑art methods on several benchmarks, achieving significant gains in metrics such as CIDEr and EM@1.
Vision-language models (VLMs) achieve strong semantic understanding but remain unreliable in metric spatial reasoning, particularly when queries require comparing multiple instances of the same object category. We study this problem through the Closest-Instance Distance Query (CIDQ), where a model must identify the nearest visible candidate to a unique reference object and estimate their gravity-aligned floor-plane distance.
arXiv:2512.03284v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Spatial reasoning in large-scale 3D environments remains challenging for current vision--language models, which are typically constrained to room-s...
arXiv:2609.38177v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning about the 3D world from multi-view images remains a fundamental challenge for Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs). While modern MLLMs...
arXiv:2607. 22864v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) excel at visual interpretation but fail on spatial reasoning tasks that humans solve reliably.
arXiv:2607. 00491v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Benchmarks for vision-language models (VLMs) mostly test observational spatial reasoning: models describe relations already visible in the input.
The paper introduces Vantage, a training‑free, model‑agnostic framework that pairs a vision‑language model with a 3D foundation model to perform Seek‑and‑View reasoning for multi‑view spatial understanding. Vantage first analyzes a question to plan a relevant viewpoint, then augments reasoning with geometry‑grounded visual evidence from that viewpoint. Experiments across six VLMs on five benchmarks show consistent improvements without fine‑tuning, demonstrating that revealing spatial evidence through view‑grounded reasoning reduces reliance on language‑based cross‑view alignment.
DRScaffold introduces a supervised fine‑tuning framework that decomposes dense‑scene reasoning into four causally ordered stages, enabling lightweight vision‑language models to ground each reasoning step in visual entities and relations. The authors first present DRBench, a benchmark of 14,573 questions over 2,943 images covering five task categories and three reasoning layers. Experiments show that applying DRScaffold to three lightweight VLMs yields significant gains on DRBench while maintaining or improving general‑purpose benchmark performance, with Qwen2.5‑VL‑3B surpassing the frozen Qwen2.5‑VL‑32B under zero‑shot prompting.
arXiv:2610.33558v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Video spatial reasoning requires multimodal large language models (MLLMs) to understand how objects are arranged and related across viewpoints. While t...