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DrawingVQA: A Real-World Benchmark for Multi-Depth Visual-Textual Reasoning on Construction Drawings

arXiv:2607. 15418v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We introduce DrawingVQA, the first benchmark designed to evaluate multimodal large language models (MLLMs) on real-world construction drawings -- a core media in architecture, civil, and many other engineering practices.

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Do VLMs Reason Like Engineers? A Benchmark and a Stage-wise Evaluation

arXiv:2606. 10833v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Vision-Language Models (VLMs) demonstrate strong performance on general multimodal reasoning benchmarks, yet their ability to perform engineering reasoning remains largely unexplored.

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arXiv AI

Jul 8

MechVQA: Benchmarking and Enhancing Multimodal LLMs on Comprehensive Mechanical Drawing Understanding

arXiv:2605. 30794v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Multimodal Large Language Models (MLLMs) have demonstrated significant achievements in general visual question answering (VQA) tasks.

By Qian Kou, Xiaofeng Shi, Yulin Li, Xiaosong Qiu, Xinyang Wang, Hua Zhou, Cao Dongxing

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arXiv Machine Learning

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VisReason: A Large-Scale Dataset for Visual Chain-of-Thought Reasoning

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By Lingxiao Li, Yifan Wang, Xinyan Gao, Chen Tang, Xiangyu Yue, Chenyu You

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arXiv AI

Aug 11

MMArch: Benchmarking Multimodal Reasoning Grounded in Architectural Evidence

arXiv:2608. 09281v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Multimodal large language models (MLLMs) perform strongly on engineering imagery, yet existing benchmarks mostly test drawing recognition, information extraction, or compliance checking, leaving open whether models can combine distributed visual evidence with engineering principles to reach a conclusion.

By Chenxu Du, Kang An, Tengyue Wang, Zhongyu Yang, Xinqi Yang, Yuanchi Zhu, Hebao Zhu, Ziliang Wang, Faqiang Qian, Yunli Yang, Qibing Ren

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arXiv AI

Jun 6

Brick-Composer: Using MLLMs for Assembly with Diverse Bricks

arXiv:2606. 05445v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: We dream of AI agents that can read arbitrary designs and construct real-world objects from reusable building blocks.

By Jiateng Liu, Bingxuan Li, Zhenhailong Wang, Rushi Wang, Kaiwen Hong, Cheng Qian, Jiayu Liu, Denghui Zhang, Katherine Driggs-Campbell, Manling Li, Heng Ji

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arXiv AI

Jul 9

Explain Before You Answer: A Survey on Compositional Visual Reasoning

arXiv:2508. 17298v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Compositional visual reasoning has emerged as a key research frontier in multimodal AI, aiming to endow machines with the human-like ability to decompose visual scenes, ground intermediate concepts, and perform multi-step logical inference.

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