arXiv:2608. 15006v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Although visual reasoning is crucial for solving complex geometry tasks, existing vision-language models rely heavily on text-only reasoning.
By Penghao Yin, Haomin Wang, Qihong Tang, Xiaoye Qu, Hongjie Zhang, Xiao-Ping Zhang
Recent vision-language models (VLMs) show strong capabilities in robotic perception and spatial reasoning, yet their ability to reason about complex mechanical assemblies remains underexplored. We int...
arXiv:2608. 14138v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Spatial perception and reasoning from visual observations require recovering geometric structure, establishing correspondences, and understanding spatial relations.
By Jinsheng Quan, Jianhua Li, Siyi Xie, Xuanke Shi, Kewang Deng, Zukai Chen, Feifei Shao, Lei Yang, Quan Wang, Yawei Luo
arXiv:2503. 19990v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Many real-world applications of spatial intelligence, such as robotic control, autonomous driving, and automated assembly, require spatial reasoning across multiple sequential steps.
By Kexian Tang, Junyao Gao, Yanhong Zeng, Haodong Duan, Yanan Sun, Zhening Xing, Wenran Liu, Kai Chen, Kaifeng Lyu
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
arXiv:2608.22637v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Recent vision-language models (VLMs) show strong capabilities in robotic perception and spatial reasoning, yet their ability to reason about complex me...
By Mingjia Wang, Taiting Lu, Ziwei Dong, Sisong Bei, Jingying Zeng, Runze Liu, Kaiyuan Lin, Hongxing Pan, Kai Zhang, Yizheng Hou, Yangshoudu Zheng, Chenchen Guo, Weiyuan Meng, Shubin Lyu, Zhijun Zheng, Dexu Wang, Xinyu Bai, Shurui Qian, Zhangzixin, Mengyu Pan, Guoliang Shi, Ling Ma, Yifan Yang, Qi He, Yi-Chao Chen, Yincheng Jin, Sung-Liang Chen, Mahanth Gowda
arXiv:2606. 15753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Embodied reasoning requires models to perceive task-relevant objects and spaces in physical environments and maintain consistent visual grounding throughout multi-step reasoning.
By Yaoting Huang, Yifu Yuan, Linqi Han, Chengwen Li, Shuoheng Zhang, Xianze Yao, Hongyao Tang, Yan Zheng, Jianye Hao
Recent large language models (LLMs) often appear to exhibit spatial reasoning ability; however, this capability is largely \emph{symbolic}, arising from pattern matching over spatial language rather than true \emph{geometric} reasoning over space. Because LLMs operate on discrete tokens, they lack native support for continuous spatial representations, explicit geometric computation, and structured spatial operators.
Object-Uni is a unified model that integrates pose perception, spatial reasoning, pose-conditioned generation, and novel view synthesis for object-centric spatial understanding and controllable image generation. It treats object pose as an explicit geometric variable shared across tasks and introduces a viewpoint-based orientation abstraction to make pose interpretable by multimodal large language models. The authors also create a new benchmark, UniSpatial-80K, and demonstrate that Object‑Uni improves both pose understanding and pose‑controllable generation compared to existing models.
By Mining Tan, Yinuo Wang, Ziqi Zhou, Weize Quan, Sifei Li, Jingdong Chen, DanDan Zheng, Libin Wang, Weiming Dong
arXiv:2606. 04381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Recent large language models (LLMs) often appear to exhibit spatial reasoning ability; however, this capability is largely \emph{symbolic}, arising from pattern matching over spatial language rather than true \emph{geometric} reasoning over space.
By Chen Chu, Bita Azarijoo, Li Xiong, Khurram Shafique, Cyrus Shahabi
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.
By Patrick Rim, Tom Long, Ekta Prashnani, Ruth Rosenholtz, Ben Boudaoud, Peter Xenopoulos, Alex Wong, Joohwan Kim, Jae-Hyun Jung
arXiv:2605. 20448v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Vision-language models reliably name objects in a scene, but do they represent the 3D layout those objects inhabit?
By Animesh Maheshwari, Divyansh Sahu, Nishit Verma