arXiv AI

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.

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 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 Computer Vision
Oct 9

Seek-and-View Reasoning for Multi-View Spatial Understanding

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.

By Qixiang Chen, Cheng Zhang, Fucai Ke, Chi-Wing Fu, Jianfei Cai, Jingwen Ye
arXiv Computer Vision
Oct 15

GeoThinker-$F$: Endogenous Predictive World Representations for Fast Spatial Intelligence

arXiv:2610.20592v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Existing geometry-aware Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) increasingly rely on external 3D encoders to provide structural priors, but executing...

By Haoyuan Li, Qihang Cao, Huanyuan Zhou, Xin Hu, Sijia Chen, Zihan Guo, Kun Xiang, Yunshuang Nie, Tao Tang, Xinlong Zheng, Jia-Wang Bian, Xianming Liu, Xiaodan Liang
arXiv Computation and Language
Oct 15

Towards a Data-Centric Understanding of Spatial Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models

arXiv:2610.19108v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have been widely applied in embodied agents and robotics for vision tasks. However, MLLMs suffer from limita...

By Mahdieh Mallahnezhad, Masoud Jafaripour, Mohamadali Tofigh, Sheila Schoepp, Osmar R. Zaiane