arXiv AI

TangramPuzzle: Evaluating Multimodal Large Language Models with Compositional Spatial Reasoning

arXiv AI
Oct 9

GeoReform: Reflective Formalization Evolution for Multimodal Geometry Problem Solving

GeoReform is a reflective formalization evolution framework designed to improve multimodal geometry problem solving by treating formalization as an optimizable policy rather than a fixed parser. It iteratively runs the reasoning pipeline, collects failures, diagnoses representation defects, and mutates the policy to better select, ground, group, and present geometric entities, relations, constraints, and targets. On the Geometry3K benchmark, GeoReform raises Qwen3VL-2B accuracy from 42.0% to 56.0%, demonstrating that effective formalization is crucial for enhancing multimodal geometry reasoning.

By Jialu Wang, Ruichen Zhang, Xiaoou Liu, Hua Wei, Tianlong Chen
arXiv AI
Sep 4

GraFT: A Training-Free Framework for Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models via 3D Scene Graphs

GraFT is a training‑free framework that enhances spatial reasoning in multimodal large language models by integrating a compact 3D scene graph (3DSG). It offers deterministic geometry via symbolic tools, allocentric layout through bird’s‑eye‑view rendering, and visual‑attribute grounding using egocentric frames. Experiments on ScanQA and VSI‑Bench show significant performance gains, with CIDEr increasing by 27% and improvements up to 65% over baseline models.

By Junqing Du, Fernando Ropero, Erkin Turkoz, Yanfeng Zhang, Lu Liu
arXiv Computer Vision
Sep 16

Reasoning with Image Generation

The paper introduces ReImaGin, a method that uses image generation models as a flexible visual reasoning tool for multimodal large language models. Unlike traditional fixed-function vision tools, ReImaGin accepts natural language commands and can perform open-ended visual operations such as removing occlusions or creating floorplans from multiple views. Experiments on six diverse visual reasoning tasks show that ReImaGin outperforms both text-only reasoning and specialist vision-tool baselines, achieving up to a 25% improvement.

By Nishad Singhi, Hector Garcia Rodriguez, Aditya Arora, Marcus Rohrbach, Anna Rohrbach
arXiv AI
Sep 28

DepthEvidence: Unifying Metric Depth Prediction and Geometric Reasoning in Multimodal Language Models

DepthEvidence is a 4B multimodal language model that integrates dense metric depth predictions into language generation. It employs a camera‑conditioned decoder to produce full‑resolution depth maps and a dense‑to‑language interface that converts these predictions into object‑aligned geometry tokens. The model is trained with geometric supervision and instruction tuning, and it sets new state‑of‑the‑art results on a Depth‑VQA benchmark and on instance‑level metric depth estimation across nine datasets.

By Jiangning Wei, Yuan Yao, Miaomiao Cui, Mingsheng Li, Humen Zhong, Shuai Bai, Zhibo Yang
arXiv AI
Sep 10

MV-STRIDE: Enabling MLLMs to Master Multi-View Spatial Reasoning via Hierarchical Capability Modeling

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.

By Jin Xu, Xiaojian Huang, Zhuodong Luo, Zhihong Zhang, Xin Liu, Jiansheng Wei, Xinzhi Wang, Jie Zhao, Xuejin Chen
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 30

Imagine3D-LLM: Teaching MLLMs to Imagine 3D Scenes Before Answering

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...

By Jaewoo Jung, Hyeonseo Yu, Honggyu An, Jisang Han, Mungyeom Kim, Minkyeong Jeon, Heeseong Shin, Wonjun Moon, Federico Tombari, Daniel Barath, Marc Pollefeys, Seungryong Kim, Sunghwan Hong
arXiv Computation and Language
Sep 10

From Symbolic Perception to Logical Deduction: A Framework for Guiding Language Models in Geometric Reasoning

The paper introduces a framework that combines a Geometric Vision Parser and a Symbolic Solver to enable a Large Language Model to solve complex plane geometry problems. By translating diagrams into symbolic representations and performing formal deductions, the approach reduces hallucinations and produces interpretable, human-like solutions. Experiments on a new benchmark from 2025 Chinese Zhongkao exams show performance comparable to Gemini 2.5 Pro.

By Weichen Dai, Rafael Medeiros Cabral, Ziyi Shou, Yan Cao, Xin Shen, Dongcai Lu, Yi Zhou