arXiv AI

Aligning Large Vision-Language Models at Test Time: A Trajectory-Guided Structured Sampling Approach

arXiv:2608. 03204v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Post-training reinforcement learning (RL) algorithms are commonly used to align large vision-language models (LVLMs) with human intent and the requirements of visual reasoning tasks.

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
arXiv AI
6d ago

MVVBench: Benchmarking 4D Reasoning in Vision-Language Models

MVVBench is a new benchmark for multi‑view video reasoning that tests vision‑language models on tasks requiring integration of spatial and temporal evidence across multiple, often non‑overlapping camera streams. The benchmark contains questions that cannot be answered from any single view or single moment, forcing models to jointly reason across views and time. It evaluates six capabilities—including attribute identification, relative distance, camera pose, and compositional counting—and provides human‑authored QA, rigorous verification, and detailed error analysis. "whyItMatters":"The benchmark offers a rigorous evaluation of 4D multi‑view reasoning and a foundation for future progress toward reliable embodied perception."

By Hyungjin Chung, Byeongjun Park, Joonseok Lee, Hojun Kim, Jaeho Choi, Byung-Hoon Kim
arXiv AI
Jun 17

See First, Answer Later: Visual Evidence Pre-Alignment via Sufficiency-Driven RL

arXiv:2606. 17678v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) integrate strong text reasoning with visual inputs, yet their responses can be inconsistent with the underlying images, indicating ineffective utilization of visual evidence during inference.

By Yilian Liu, Sicong Leng, Guoshun Nan, Junyi Zhu, Jiayu Huang, Minghao Sun, Xuancheng Zhu, Yisong Chen, Zexian Wei, Xiaofeng Tao
arXiv Computer Vision
3d ago

SYNCR: A Cross-Video Reasoning Benchmark with Synthetic Grounding

SYNCR is a synthetic benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models on cross‑video reasoning. It contains 4,000 question‑answer pairs across 4,827 unique videos, covering tasks in temporal alignment, spatial tracking, comparative reasoning, and holistic synthesis. The benchmark reveals a significant performance gap between current models and humans, with models excelling at temporal ordering but struggling with precise physical and spatial reasoning.

By Sara Ghazanfari, Siddharth Garg, Prashanth Krishnamurthy, Farshad Khorrami
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jun 23

PointVG-R: Internalizing Geometric Reasoning in MLLMs for Precise Pointing Localization via Visual Chain of Thought

Pointing-based visual grounding requires models to precisely locate target objects by deciphering complex spatial relationships between the visual scene and pointing gestures. Traditional methods typically encode input images into static feature representations and perform reasoning primarily within the linguistic domain, often overlooking the rich perceptual cues and explicit spatial geometry inherent in images.