MagiC is a benchmark for grounded multimodal cognition that evaluates vision‑language models on answer accuracy, step‑by‑step reasoning quality, grounding fidelity, and self‑correction. It contains about 5,500 weakly supervised QA examples generated from strong model outputs and 900 human‑curated examples with fine‑grained annotations, including rationales and bounding box groundings. The benchmark tests 15 models ranging from 7B to 70B parameters, introduces new metrics such as MagiScore and StepSense, and includes diagnostic settings to probe robustness against adversarial visual cues and introspective error correction.
By Chengfei Wu, Ronald Seoh, Bingxuan Li, Liqiang Zhang, Fengrong Han, Dan Goldwasser
ANCHOR is a new benchmark for audio‑visually grounded chain‑of‑thought reasoning, containing 2,319 videos and 8,272 question‑answer pairs with structured reasoning traces, spatial bounding boxes, temporal intervals, and audio cues. It evaluates not only answer correctness but also hallucination, logical divergence, and conciseness, providing direct spatial and temporal grounding measurements on a focused subset. The benchmark reveals a substantial alignment gap among contemporary multimodal large language models, showing that similar answer accuracy can mask differences in evidence‑supported explanations.
By Joel Julin, Souraja Kundu, Liza Dahiya, George Z. Wei, Liuyue Xie, Jingru Yi, Xu Zhang, Hao Yang, Laszlo A. Jeni
The paper introduces MOTIVE, a multi-view self-verification framework for vision-language models that evaluates candidate answers from complementary perspectives and learns a reliability score aligned with correctness. By using this score to decide whether to accept an answer or trigger history-guided rethinking, MOTIVE improves reliability and efficiency compared to existing self-verification and self-correction methods. Extensive experiments on diverse multimodal benchmarks and VLM backbones show consistent performance gains and reduced unnecessary reasoning turns.
By Ziquan Zhu, Hanruo Zhu, Si-Yuan Lu, Morris Yu-Chao Huang, Yicheng Lin, Wei Han, Tianlong Chen, Mingyuan Wu, Hanchao Yu, Gaojie Jin, Lu Liu, Bo Sun, Tianjin Huang
arXiv:2606. 26535v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Current VLM evaluations often conflate language priors with genuine spatial reasoning.
By Zhixing Li, Yinan Yu
arXiv:2606. 00148v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) often know the rule but pick the wrong answer: on abstract visual reasoning (AVR) tasks, a model can describe what it sees and name the underlying pattern, yet still fail to choose the matching candidate.
By Xixiang He, Baiqi Wu, Xingming Li, Ao Cheng, Qiyao Sun, Xuanyu Ji, Qingyong Hu
arXiv:2608.28623v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Large multimodal reasoning models (LMRMs) are getting increasingly capable, primarily through generating explicit chain-of-thought reasoning before a...
By Mahir Numayeer Islam, Gakuto Okuyama, Nikolaus Siauw, Shivank Garg, Madhur Panwar, Vasu Sharma
arXiv:2603. 06828v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We uncover a behavioral law of long-horizon vision-language models: models that maintain temporally grounded beliefs generalize better.
By Md Ashikur Rahman, Md Arifur Rahman, Niamul Hassan Samin, Abdullah Ibne Hanif Arean, Juena Ahmed Noshin
arXiv:2610.33764v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Multimodal reasoning requires models to combine multiple pieces of evidence into decisions that satisfy all relevant constraints. Evaluations centered...
By Yuyang Dai, Yuxia Wang, Zhuohan Xie
StateSight is a new benchmark designed to isolate and evaluate the ability of vision‑language models to reconstruct latent spatial structure from a single image. It consists of three procedurally generated task families—cube‑net opposite‑face reasoning, occluded cube‑tower counting, and 4‑neighbor connected‑component counting—each with 300 deterministic prompts and exact‑match scoring. The benchmark also includes a companion dataset, StateSight‑Steps, with 900 image‑text examples and 3,600 intermediate visual states to aid analysis of reconstruction errors.
By Michelle Lin
arXiv:2506.09557v2 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate impressive performance in benign scenarios, their cognitive reliability deteriorat...
By Zhaoyang Wei, Bowen Jiang, Xumeng Han, Jiashu Li, Xuehui Yu, Yuling Liu, Guorong Li, Zhenjun Han, Jianbin Jiao
Current VLM evaluations often conflate language priors with genuine spatial reasoning. To address this, we introduce CRISP, a novel structural-diagnostic evaluation paradigm that assesses visual spatial intelligence through consistency, the alignment between implicit perception and explicit reasoning.
arXiv:2608. 10954v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: While Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) demonstrate impressive performance in benign scenarios, their cognitive reliability deteriorates significantly in complex scenes under adverse conditions.
By Zhaoyang Wei, Bowen Jiang, Xumeng Han, Jiashu Li, Xuehui Yu, Yuling Liu, Guorong Li, Zhenjun Han, Jianbin Jiao