arXiv AI

MIND: Multi-rationale INtegrated Discriminative Reasoning Framework for Multi-modal Large Models

arXiv:2512. 05530v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Recently, multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have been widely applied to reasoning tasks.

arXiv AI

Jun 4

Bad Seeing or Bad Thinking? Rewarding Perception for Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2605. 14054v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Achieving robust perception-reasoning synergy is a central goal for advanced Vision-Language Models (VLMs).

By Haozhe Wang, Qixin Xu, Changpeng Wang, Taofeng Xue, Chong Peng, Wenhu Chen, Fangzhen Lin

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arXiv AI

Aug 5

Balancing Efficiency and Efficacy: Training-Free Attention-Guided Switching Between Explicit and Latent Thoughts for MLLMs

arXiv:2608. 03450v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning in Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) requires both fine-grained visual perception and rigorous logical deduction.

By Haoqian Kang, Liupeng Li, Kuofeng Gao, Jinpeng Wang, Zhenyu Lu, Bin Chen, Ke Chen, Yaowei Wang

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arXiv AI

Jun 4

Making Expert Reasoning Learnable with Self-Distillation

arXiv:2602. 02405v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Improving the reasoning capabilities of large language models (LLMs) typically relies either on the model's ability to sample a correct solution to be reinforced or the existence of a stronger model able to solve the problem.

By Ethan Mendes, Jungsoo Park, Alan Ritter

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arXiv AI

Jul 17

Stop Thinking, Start Looking: Efficient Post-Training for Multimodal Document Question Answering via Reasoning-Free Alignment

arXiv:2607. 14682v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Efficient multimodal document question answering with explicit visual grounding, locating the precise document region that supports each answer remains an open challenge.

By Harikrishnan P M, Goutham Vignesh, Ganesh Parab, Saisubramaniam Gopalakrishnan, Vishal Vaddina, Varun V, Rohit Agrawal

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 25

SyncLoop: A Multimodal Dual-Loop Framework for Self-Improving Mathematical Reasoning

arXiv:2507. 16518v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Recent advances in multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have shown impressive reasoning capabilities.

By Xiuwei Chen, Wentao Hu, Hanhui Li, Yongxin Wang Jun Zhou, Zisheng Chen, Meng Cao, Yihan Zeng, Kui Zhang, Yu-Jie Yuan, Jianhua Han, Hang Xu, Xiaodan Liang

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arXiv AI

Jun 4

Belief-Aware VLM Model for Human-like Reasoning

arXiv:2604. 09686v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Traditional neural network models for intent inference rely heavily on observable states and struggle to generalize across diverse tasks and dynamic environments.

By Anshul Nayak, Shahil Shaik, Yue Wang

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arXiv AI

Jun 2

MindZero: Learning Online Mental Reasoning With Zero Annotations

arXiv:2606. 00240v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Effective real-world assistance requires AI agents with robust Theory of Mind (ToM): inferring human mental states from their behavior.

By Shunchi Zhang, Jin Lu, Chuanyang Jin, Yichao Zhou, Zhining Zhang, Tianmin Shu

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arXiv AI

Jun 12

PaLMR: Towards Faithful Visual Reasoning via Multimodal Process Alignment

arXiv:2603. 06652v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Reinforcement learning has recently improved the reasoning ability of Large Language Models and Multimodal LLMs, yet prevailing reward designs emphasise final-answer correctness and consequently tolerate process hallucinations--cases where models reach the right answer while misperceiving visual evidence.

By Yantao Li, Qiang Hui, Chenyang Yan, Kanzhi Cheng, Fang Zhao, Chao Tan, Huanling Gao, Jianbing Zhang, Kai Wang, Xinyu Dai, Shiguo Lian

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Hugging Face Trending Papers

Jul 15

SD-MAR: Multi-image Analytical Reasoning via Synthetic Data and Reinforcement Learning

Vision Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong perceptual abilities but remain limited in tasks requiring analytical reasoning across multiple visual states, such as multi-image comparison, change detection, and multi-step visual inference. These capabilities are critical for real-world multimodal applications where reasoning must be grounded in systematic differences between visual contexts.

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arXiv Machine Learning

Aug 11

Rethinking Reasoning with MDLMs: Early Exits, Post-hoc Reasoning, and Beyond

arXiv:2510. 19990v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: The reasoning paradigm, where language models reason before answering, has enabled breakthroughs on tasks such as mathematical problem-solving.

By Zachary Horvitz, Raghav Singhal, Hao Zou, Carles Domingo-Enrich, Zhou Yu, Rajesh Ranganath, Kathleen McKeown

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arXiv Machine Learning

Jun 16

DLWM: Diverse Latent World Models for Efficient Multimodal Reasoning

arXiv:2606. 15160v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Reasoning capabilities of multimodal large language models (MLLMs) have improved considerably in recent years.

By David Huang, Lianlei Shan

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arXiv AI

Aug 6

MOON3.0: Reasoning-aware Multimodal Representation Learning for E-commerce Product Understanding

arXiv:2604. 00513v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: With the rapid growth of e-commerce, exploring general representations rather than task-specific ones has attracted increasing attention.

By Junxian Wu, Chenghan Fu, Zhanheng Nie, Daoze Zhang, Bowen Wan, Wanxian Guan, Chuan Yu, Jian Xu, Bo Zheng

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